Dr Juan Bernal-Sanchez J.Bernal-Sanchez@napier.ac.uk
Lecturer
Housing Construction On Peatland: Phase 1 Report
Bernal-Sanchez, Juan; McDougall, John; Medero, Gabi; Cook, Donald; Barreto, Daniel
Authors
Dr John McDougall J.McDougall@napier.ac.uk
Reader
Gabi Medero
Donald Cook
Dr Daniel Barreto Gonzalez D.Barreto@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Abstract
The economic development and social resilience of communities in rural Scotland is being hampered by a shortage of affordable housing. Nationally, about 23,000 new homes per year are needed, whilst in the year up to October 2018, only 18,000 were built (BBC, 2019). The remoter rural areas of Scotland are spacious enough to offer considerable scope for affordable housing development and generally have lower land values but other factors including challenging ground conditions, notably peat, can make development in these areas economically unviable and environmentally unsustainable.
Scottish peatlands are predominantly blanket bogs, the largest of which are found in the Highlands and Western Isles. Around 20% of Scotland’s land surface area is covered by blanket bogs alone, which in turn is about 15% of the global total for this habitat (Bruneau and Johnson, 2014).
In response to the shortage of affordable housing and the incidence of peat soils, this project sought to:
-Identify the scale of the shortage,
-Recognise the significance of construction on the peat from a multidisciplinary standpoint,
-Compare, existing and innovative options for foundation design on peat, so as to lessen the magnitude of the construction challenge.
The three bullet points correspond to the first three work packages of this project. A fourth work package will allow for dissemination of findings.
Citation
Bernal-Sanchez, J., McDougall, J., Medero, G., Cook, D., & Barreto, D. (2021). Housing Construction On Peatland: Phase 1 Report. Edinburgh: Construction Scotland Innovation Centre
Report Type | Project Report |
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Online Publication Date | Sep 1, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2021-09 |
Deposit Date | Nov 22, 2022 |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2963133 |
Publisher URL | https://www.mis-hub.com/files/Housing_Construction_on_Peatland_-_Phase_1.pdf |
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