The knowledge centre of the Environment Study Centre – written and always kept up-to-date by Professor John Edwards – MA, DipBldgCons, CEnv, FCIOB, FRICS, IHBC.
This is where the latest thinking on buildings, moisture and retrofit lives: rigorous, practical and always current. Every hub is authored in-house and covers the issues that matter in equal measure – technical, legal and practical – so you can keep up to date, stay ahead, and dig deeper into the questions others skate over. The ESC Hub does not follow the crowd. It asks the serious questions and challenges the current norm when it needs to – digging into the issues that really matter today.
We have four Hubs tailored to each course, packed with the latest knowledge and best-practice.
Everything you need to know about moisture and how to investigate it. From damp and mould to condensation, this hub takes you into the causes, the diagnosis and the cure – so you can read a building’s problems correctly and put them right.
Older buildings behave differently, and treating them like modern ones causes damage. This hub shows you how to understand a building and its performance first, then work out the optimum retrofit for resilience and energy efficiency – right down to the detail of specifying and installing measures and the associated works.
The essentials, explained without the jargon. Written for a non-technical audience, this hub gives everyone a clear, confident grounding in what causes damp and mould and what to do about it – the perfect starting point before going deeper.
Retrofit in the places where we work, learn and gather. This hub tackles the distinct challenges of commercial, public and institutional buildings – larger, more complex and more heavily regulated – where performance, compliance and practicality all have to be balanced at once.
This is just the start. More hubs are coming, along with tools built to support you in your role – as the ESC Hub becomes the definitive learning resource for our field: always authored, always current, always ahead.
Selected courses include 12 months’ access to the relevant ESC Hub as standard. After that, you can continue your subscription for just £95 + VAT per hub, per year – ensuring you always have the latest resources at your fingertips. Just look out for the ESC Hub icon 
on the course page.
