274 Retrofit Roadshow

Porty Podcast - A podcast by David Calder, Alan Hepburn, Erin Menzies, Lottie Meier, Lottie Clement, Josie McLeister - Saturdays

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Send us a textMany homes in Portobello date back to the Victorian or Edwardian eras. Those in the centre of Edinburgh are much, much older than that. They were fit for purpose in those days – but, with climate change a growing issue along with ever increasing energy prices, they are no longer energy efficient. We could either pull them all down and lose all the architectural heritage that makes this city of World Heritage site – or find a way to improve them, to retrofit them, in the jargon. ...