Speakers

Dr Mairi Davies - Climate Change Policy Manager, Historic Environment Scotland

Dr Mairi Davies is Climate Change Policy Manager at Historic Environment Scotland, supporting the organisation in its leadership on climate change and delivery of its Climate Action Plan 2020-2025.  Previously an Inspector of Ancient Monuments, she is a graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh and Durham with a particular interest in the relationship between human activity and environmental change. Mairi has been on the Steering Groups for Dynamic Coast: Scotland’s National Coastal Change Assessment and several other climate change risk and adaptation projects, include Edinburgh Adapts, which developed a vision and action plan for an adapted capital city. She was on the project team for the pilot Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) project in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site and the Steering Groups for CVI Old and New Towns of Edinburgh, the Antonine Wall and St Kilda World Heritage Sites and CVI Africa.  She is one of the principal authors of a major report published in 2018 on climate change risk assessment on the Historic Environment Scotland Estate. She is a co-author of the scientific review for the Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership of the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage in the UK marine and coastal zone. 

Dr Moses Jenkins - Senior Technical Officer, Historic Environment Scotland

Dr Moses Jenkins has worked for Historic Environment Scotland in various roles for 18 years. During this time, he has managed various research projects; most significantly, into the retrofit of traditionally constructed buildings. He has written a wide range of guidance for Historic Environment Scotland, including the Guide to Energy Retrofit of Traditional Buildings, and guidance on condensation, mould, and repair of brickwork, amongst others. He is the author of the book Survey and Assessment of Traditionally Constructed Brickwork, and The Scottish Brick Industry, amongst others. A conservation accredited member of CIOB he gained a PhD in the subject of Scottish Brickwork in 2016.

Catherine Cosgrove - Associate, Austin-Smith: Lord and Chair of the Scottish Ecological Design Association

Catherine is an architect with more than 25 years’ experience on a wide range of projects and leads the sustainability group at Austin-Smith: Lord. She has a particular focus on conservation and sustainable design and holds RIAS accreditation in both. Catherine is the current chair of the Scottish Ecological Design Association.

Alan Marshall - Architect, Alan Marshall Chartered Architect

Alan Marshall is an advanced conservation accredited architect and was a partner in Gray, Marshall & Associates, in Edinburgh, throughout a long career. He was responsible, with Jocelyn Cunliffe and others, for looking after and conserving many A-listed and other historic buildings, conservation area appraisals and Townscape Heritage Initiative schemes.   Alan has been particularly involved in adapting listed buildings for new uses as a practical way of ensuring their continued use.  A recent example was the collaboration with Moxon Architects on the Faithlie Centre (former Fraserburgh Town House) which won the 'Re-use of Buildings' Category at the Scottish Design Awards 2020

Alan (and his wife Kate) moved to the B-listed Invereshie House at Kincraig in the Highlands in 2011.  The house dates from around 1685 but has been changed and added to throughout its life. Hotel, then holiday let use since the 1970s resulted in it becoming quite dilapidated. A lack of records hampered research, making reliance on careful physical investigation essential.  As well as continuing to practice as an architect (part-time) Alan has been restoring the house, carrying out a significant amount of conservation work himself, and appreciating the difficult task of putting theoretical conservation knowledge into practice.

Lily Erskine - Conservation Accredited Engineer, Narro

Lily started her career in London working at Alan Baxter Ltd. There she worked as project engineer at the Palace of Westminster and led the £50M refurbishment of the Royal Academy of Arts with David Chipperfield Architects. In 2017 Lily joined Narro, then David Narro Associates, where she became the first woman in Scotland to be elected to the Conservation Accreditation Register of Engineers (CARE). Lily’s work focuses on working with historic and existing buildings, with her key interest being reconfiguration of high profile public spaces. Lily also specialises in Museum and Gallery displays, working closely with artists and conservators to mount installations and artefacts across Scotland.

Jamie Bateman - Architect & Director, Smith Scott Mullan Associates

As a conservation-accredited architect and Director of Smith Scott Mullan Associates, Jamie has a wealth of experience of bringing new life to old buildings and is particularly interested in combining conservation works with sensitive contemporary interventions.

He is lead architect on the Edinburgh Biomes project, the £90m transformation of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s public and research glasshouses and facilities. His earlier projects at the Botanics include the refurbishment of the Lecture Theatre and the conservation of the East Lodge to bring it into public use as a café.

Elsewhere, he has undertaken conservation works to the Second-World-War structures at the National Museum of Flight, the conservation and extension of the 1930s Harbourmaster’s Office in Stranraer and the remodelling of the PE Block at George Watson’s College.