SELECTION OF CONTRACTS FROM 2006/07

TIMBER DECAY:

TIMBER CONDITION SURVEYS
28 Holland Park, Kensington
30 Cheyne Row, Chelsea
Cloister Ennis, Co Clare
Dixton Manor, Gloucestershire
Lavitt’s Quay, Co Cork
Old Government Offices, Isle of Mann
Polesworth Abbey, Staffordshire
Ram Brewery, Wandsworth

SURVEYS INVOLVING EXTREME DRY ROT INFECTIONS
Blairtummock House, Glasgow
Gurtenard House, Co Kerry
Lismore Lodge, Co Cavan
Rosie O’Briens, Birmingham
St Pancras Chambers, London
Toddington Manor, Gloucestershire
Walker Buildings, Digbeth, Birmingham
Wellington Rooms, Liverpool

SURVEYS INVOLVING WOOD BORING INFESTATIONS
Capheaton Hall, Northumberland
Daintrey House, West Sussex
Grand Vizier Koprulu Seaside House, Istanbul, Turkey (2008)
Hereford Cathedral
Knole House, Sevenoaks, Kent
St Andrew’s, Alwington, Devon
St Mary’s, East Bergholt, Suffolk
Winchester City Mill, Hampshire

SURVEYS INVOLVING THE USE OF A MICRO-DRILL (NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING)
Barrington Park, Oxfordshire
Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol
Guernsey Market Developments, St Peter Port, Guernsey
Navigation Warehouse, Wakefield, Yorkshire
Polstead St Mary’s, Suffolk
The Chocolate Box, Anglesey
The Dry Sand Foundry, Leeds, Yorkshire
Ullesthorpe Windmill, Leicestershire

SURVEYS INVOLVING ENDOSCOPE INSPECTIONS (NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING)
4 Maids of Honour Row, Richmond
St George’s Church, Darlingscott, Warwickshire
The Athenaeum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Aras an Uachtarain, Dublin

VISUAL STRENGTH GRADING
Barnsley Civic Centre
Jessop’s Victorian Hospital, Sheffield
Quaker’s Friars, Bristol
St Paul’s and St George’s, Edinburgh

DAMP MASONRY ANALYSIS:

RISING DAMP ASSESSMENTS
Ewelme Manor, Oxfordshire
Ascot Place, Berkshire
Belmont Hall, Cheshire
9 and 10 Belgrave Square, London
17 Mount Street, Dublin
Bourne Hill, Salisbury, Wiltshire
Seely’s Hotel, Clifton, Bristol
Whitehall Farm, Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk

MASONRY MOISTURE MONITORING
All Saints, Kedleston, Derbyshire
Dunglass Castle, Clyde Estuary
Grecian Temple, Dunorlan Park, Kent
Howden Minster Pulpitum, Yorkshire
Jesmond Dene, Newcastle
St Mary’s, Berry Pomeroy, Devon
St Pancras Station, London
Toddington Manor, Gloucestershire

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

21 The Boltons, London
Cromerty East Church, Scotland
Park Street Coach Store, London
St Matthew’s Church, Kingstown, Bristol
St Pancras Chambers, London
The Lord Mayor’s State Coach, London
The Roman Bath House, Lower Thames Street, London
The Roman Fort Gate House, London

SURVEYS/MONITORING FOLLOWING FIRE OR FLOOD

Bentley Hall, Hungry Bentley, Derbyshire
Downington House and Cottage, Oxfordshire
Lake House, Pusey, Oxfordshire
St John’s Church, Burford, Oxfordshire
Stoke Rochford Hall, Lincolnshire
Traveller’s Joy, Horsehay, Shropshire
Wardington Manor, Oxfordshire
Wimbledon Street, Leicestershire

REMOTE TIMBER MOISTURE MONITORING SYSTEMS

Bodiam Castle, Portcullis, East Sussex
Brighton Pavilion, Brighton,
Castletown House, Co Kilkenny
Fota House, Co. Cork
Queen Elizabeth Hunting Lodge, Epping

EXPERT WITNESS WORK

Bath City Council, Planning Appeal
Basement waterproofing at 8 Camden Crescent, Bath
Gleeson v Frankona and Others
Dry rot at Hill End Hospital
St John’s College v Cluttons and Barclays bank Plc
Dry rot treatment at Station Parade, Sunningdale
Admiral/Marsh v Meehan Levins Partnership
Timber decay at Clonnitin House, Co Wexford, Ireland

TERMITE INFESTATIONS

American Ligation Museum, Tangiers, Morocco
Iconostatis at Panagia Livadiotissa, Skopelos, Greece

LECTURES

Dublin City Council
RIBA: Ireland, South and East UK
Architectural Association
College of Estate Management, Reading
SPAB
Victorian Society
The University of York
The University of Bath

The Old Government Offices, Isle of Man. Ridout Associates provided advice following an outbreak of dry rot in this building.
Asterostroma fungus growing over a ceiling between a leaking gutter.
Dry rot sporophores on a piece of furniture.
Dry rot mycelium growing beneath a saturated floor.
Deathwatch beetle damage in a decorative oak boss.
Windmill caps components are a range of different timber species.
Decorative panelling can be inspected with fibre-optic boroscopes.
Poorly maintained rainwater equipment is a common cause of timber decay in buildings.
Ground water rising through a wall and leaving a characteristic band of salts.
Monitoring the interior of the Lord Mayor of London's State Coach.
Environmental monitoring following flood damage.
Windows Data schedule from a bespoke monitoring system at Fota House, Ireland.
Historic termite damage in oak sapwood.
Dixton Manor, Gloucestershire. Ridout Associates undertook a timber condition survey of this building.
 

 

 

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