ABSTRACT
In the last four years architects have secured two separate research grants from Innovate UK – under the Climate Adaptation Strategies call – to develop an understanding of how commercial buildings could be adapted to respond to overheating caused by climate change, and whether such adaptation was commercially viable. This chapter presents a case study on Bauman Lyons, which is a small architectural practice with eight staff, established in 1992. It outlines the Adapt and Save project, which was part of their work on adaptation strategies. The Adapt and Save project was to investigate the impact of global warming and climate change on the overheating of existing commercial buildings. They used research by design as the method to identify a series of physical, management and behavioural adaptations and anti-adaptations which were then developed as a taxonomy.
