Building Maintenance Essentials- Maintenance Week 2025

Come and spend a Saturday morning finding out about caring for your traditional building, whether that be an individual granite home, a flat in a granite tenement, a community hall or even a Place of Worship.

Who is this event for?

This event is suitable for house or flat owners, property managers including those in charge of tenements, community/public buildings and places of worship of traditional construction.

There has never been a more important time to ensure that traditionally constructed property is working as it should. Well maintained buildings function more thermally efficiently and provide a foundation for considering what else can be done to improve thermal performance. It can, however, be challenging to know how to take maintenance and repair projects forward.

Plenty of time will be provided for questions during the course of the morning so bring your queries.

09:30 Registration and refreshments

10:00-11:45 Presentations from:

Craig Wilson (RGU) is a building surveying lecturer at Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment with decades of experience of looking at building condition/ pathology. Craig is a director and Chair of Aberdeen City Heritage Trust.

Ian Mitchell Davidson is an RICS accredited Historic Building Professional with over 40 years' experience. He is a Trustee of Historic Churches Scotland, Hon Prof at RGU, and an elected Guardian for SPAB Scotland. In addition, he is a member of the RICS group that advises the Institution on conservation nationally and internationally.

Graeme Cheyne- has been running his building firm Graeme W Cheyne (Builders) Ltd for 44 years and has first-hand experience of inspecting traditional buidings, seeing what is going wrong and delivering running maintenance. He maintains a good working relationship with Architects and professionals agents across the City and has been involved in numerous grant assisted projects over 35 years, including numerous high profile buildings.

Douglas Campbell- runs Aberdeen City Heritage Trust and has experience of supporting the repair of over 265 buildings in Aberdeen since 2005. He is a director of the Built Environment Forum Scotland and on the committee of the Scotland Branch of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation.

11:45-12:15 Questions and Answers

For more information about the venue, accessibility and parking click here

If you are planning coming on the History and Maintenance Walking Tour on the afternoon of 22 November 2025, then please also sign up here. Places are limited to 15. Meeting at the Mercat Cross at 1pm.

Aberdeen City Heritage Trust recognises the support of Historic Environment Scotland, Aberdeen City Council and ASPC in the delivery of 2025 Maintenance Week events.

This event may be subject to change, postponement or cancellation.