#2.1 - Peter Rickaby: Navigating risk in Retrofit, Damp & Mould and the Role of Ventilation

Send us a textPeter Rickaby - Part 1-  Risk in retrofit, moisture balance, standards and more. Now living in South Africa Peter is an Independent Energy and Sustainability Consultant working for the UK housing and building industries.His influence on how we view energy in buildings, risk, retrofit and standards in the UK is wide-ranging and profound. For 35 years from 1982 to 2017, Peter was a Director of Rickaby Thompson Associates, a specialist energy and sustainability consultancy with clients including three UK Government Departments, the Energy Saving Trust, the Building Research Establishment, National Energy Services, The Institute for Sustainability, the BBC and many more.He contributed extensively to the industry-led Each Home Counts Review, where he  was also a member of the Implementation Board He chaired the BSI Retrofit Standards Task Group and was Technical Author of PAS 2035:2019 Retrofitting Dwellings for Improved Energy Efficiency: and PAS 2038 Retrofitting Non-Domestic Buildings for Energy Efficiency: Peter's knowledge of how we understand risk in the built environment intrigues me, and I have seen first-hand how this has had profound effects on outcomes in the most challenging environments.We discussed how our perspective of risk in both retrofit and moisture in buildings has developed over the last few decades, his career and the now famous Theamesmead project, the condensation damp and mould crisis of the last 12 months—ventilation, of course, and much more.BSI White paper - Moisture Risk in Buildings https://sdfoundation.org.uk/downloads/BSI-White-Paper-Moisture-In-Buildings.PDFBSI PAS 2035 https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/standards/pas-2035-2030/ Each Home Counts https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7f1384e5274a2e8ab49f6b/Each_Home_Counts__December_2016_.pdf Support the showCheck out the Air Quality Matters website for more information, updates and more. And the YouTube Channel The Air Quality Matters Podcast is brought to you in partnership with. Eurovent Farmwood Aereco Aico Ultra Protect Zehnder Group The One Take Podcast is brought to you in partnership with. SafeTraces & InBiot All great companies that share the podcast's passion for better air quality in the built environment. Supporting them helps support the show.