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- c1983-1997 (Creation)
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107 items
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Folder contains:
- texts, with preparatory notes, and background and technical information, for conference paper titled 'Case Study: A Self-Built 'Green' House in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland', presented at CIB Conference, Watford (1994)
- correspondence relating to Green Croft House's entry on Robert Gordon University's Ecological Design and Construction Database (with questionnaire)
- Benside House's 'For Sale' notice and 'brochure'
- and trade literature for Rayburn cookers.
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This material has been appraised in line with Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections standard procedures.
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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).