The updated ISSE house journal 'The Specialist' is currently being prepared for Autumn publication.
The content includes articles about conservation in Grainger Town Newcastle upon Tyne one of the largest concentration of listed buildings in the UK and the important challenge posed by neglect and inappropriate treatment of the historic building fabric by owners especially the often unused or unlet upper storeys.
A major dry rot treatment of one such property caused by failure to maintain gutters and downpipes and cost the new owners ove3 £100,000.
Cryptoflorescence of masonry in a Gothic revival stone building in Grainger Town - The Mining Institute - caused by leaking concealed downpipes.
An article on the conversion of part of the Historic Dockyard at Portsmouth by the ISSE Conservation officer Peter Crighton FRICS.
Toxic mould and ventilation and collaboration with mycologists in effecting a solution.
The ISSE Home Log and the discharge of Duty of Care.