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Retrofitting a Historic Building Envelope for Disaster Resilience and Sustainability
The Samuel L. Byrne House, built in Cambridge, Maryland, in 1876, has withstood a century and a half of direct exposure to high winds, torrential storms, and harsh sunlight. Left largely unaltered over the years, the building is undergoing extensive renovations to mitigate future weather-driven deterioration. This disaster-resilient system will take advantage of the timber frame's unique bracing and structural links to distribute uplift, overturning, and shear forces across a designated load path and into the building's new concrete and brick foundation walls. Many supplementary disaster resilient and sustainable building strategies, including the use of stainless steel hurricane straps, wooden dowels, perimeter roof flashing, custom ridge vents, missile-resistant solar panels, storm windows, operable cedar shutters, a modified cold roof design, and a system to divert storm water from the foundation are being incorporated into the renovation and retrofit. The building envelope is also undergoing critical repairs and alterations to improve energy performance and building sustainability; insulation, air barriers, and reinforcing studs and rafters will be installed throughout the exterior walls and roofs. Operating within the parameters of the Maryland Historical Trust and the Cambridge Historic Preservation Commission, the renovation explores the contextual approaches to disaster resilience and sustainability that have afforded the structure its remarkable longevity.
Retrofitting a Historic Building Envelope for Disaster Resilience and Sustainability
The Samuel L. Byrne House, built in Cambridge, Maryland, in 1876, has withstood a century and a half of direct exposure to high winds, torrential storms, and harsh sunlight. Left largely unaltered over the years, the building is undergoing extensive renovations to mitigate future weather-driven deterioration. This disaster-resilient system will take advantage of the timber frame's unique bracing and structural links to distribute uplift, overturning, and shear forces across a designated load path and into the building's new concrete and brick foundation walls. Many supplementary disaster resilient and sustainable building strategies, including the use of stainless steel hurricane straps, wooden dowels, perimeter roof flashing, custom ridge vents, missile-resistant solar panels, storm windows, operable cedar shutters, a modified cold roof design, and a system to divert storm water from the foundation are being incorporated into the renovation and retrofit. The building envelope is also undergoing critical repairs and alterations to improve energy performance and building sustainability; insulation, air barriers, and reinforcing studs and rafters will be installed throughout the exterior walls and roofs. Operating within the parameters of the Maryland Historical Trust and the Cambridge Historic Preservation Commission, the renovation explores the contextual approaches to disaster resilience and sustainability that have afforded the structure its remarkable longevity.
Retrofitting a Historic Building Envelope for Disaster Resilience and Sustainability
Olshesky, Janice (author)
ATC & SEI Conference on Advances in Hurricane Engineering 2012 ; 2012 ; Miami, Florida, United States
Advances in Hurricane Engineering ; 188-199
2012-11-13
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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