Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- c1983-2009 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent
44 boxes
Content and Structure
Scope and content
Job files related to Easthall Solar Demonstration Project.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
This material has been appraised in line with Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections standard procedures.
Accruals
System of arrangement
The material has been sorted where a clear and logical pattern presented itself (e.g. collection of 'Tech Talk' newsletters) but, in order to preserve the original organisation of the material, it is largely presented in its original sequence of (generally) Easthall then Heatfest material.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Prof Colin Porteous is an architect and researcher whose interest extends to energy-efficient design moved from practice to in-depth research. In 1981, he became active in the international solar community and then a full-time academic in 1986 after leading a community technical aid centre. He linked problems of fuel poverty to passive solar solutions via EU-funded Easthall Demonstration Project in early 1990s. Prof Porteous initiated the Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit (MEARU) in 1993. He is the author of THE NEW eco-ARCHITECTURE (2002) and Solar Architecture in Cool Climates (2005), and has contributed a chapter to Sensing a Historic Low-CO2 Future (2011).