Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
A conservation architect, Carsten Hermann works as digital Product Owner and Project Manager at Historic Environment Scotland (HES), Scotland’s national public body to safeguard and promote the historic environment. He specialises in digital innovation in in the field of sustainable conservation of cultural heritage, with specific expertise in energy performance improvements of historic buildings, climate change adaptation and the conservation of the built heritage of the 20th century. Carsten currently coordinates digital system developments to manage estates of historic places, with experience in product, project and programme management as well as user research and stakeholder engagement. In the past, he participated in a variety of project funded by the European Union: Coordinator of the project Adapt Northern Heritage (2017-2020, Interreg NPA), concerned with climate change adaptation of historic places and Work Package Leader of the project Energy Pathfinder (2019-2022, Interreg NPA), concerned with energy performance improvements of historic buildings in northern Europe. He was also involved in Advanced Limes Applications (ALApp, 2016-2019, Creative Europe), on mobile device applications to present archaeology of the UNESCO World Heritage site Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and EFFESUS (2012-2016, FP7), researching energy efficiency of historic city districts. Carsten is a member of the technical committee concerned with cultural heritage conservation of the British Standards Institution and was a member of the related committee at the European Committee for Standardization. In a private capacity, he is currently Treasurer of Docomomo Scotland and was previously its Coordinator. He was also a member of the International Scientific Committee on Technology of Docomomo International, of the International Scientific Committee on Risk Preparedness of ICOMOS United Kingdom and of the Technical Panel of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB). Carsten studied architecture and worked in construction and project management in Germany, India and the United Kingdom. Settling in Scotland in 2005, he worked for several years for conservation architects in Edinburgh, before joining in 2009 Historic Scotland, which in 2015 became Historic Environment Scotland.
Advisor for and researcher in sustainable built heritage conservation, with a particular in interest in energy efficiency of historic buildings, climate change impacts on the historic environment, conservation of 20th century historic places and urban conservation. Coordinator and principal researcher in the European project Adapt Northern Heritage (2017-2020), funded by the Interreg programme for the Northern Periphery and Arctic. The project supports communities in northern world regions to adapt their built cultural heritage to the environmental impacts of climate change and associated natural hazards. www.adaptnorthernheritage.eu Project administrator and researcher in the European project Advanced Limes Applications (ALApp, 2016-2019), funded by the European Union's Creative Europe programme. The project develops mobile device applications and content to present archaeological sites and associated objects of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Frontiers of the Roman Empire, using digital scans, 3d reconstructions and augmented reality. www.alapp.eu Task leader and researcher in the project Renovating Historic Buildings Towards Zero Energy (HistoricNZEB, 2017-2021), undertaken for the International Energy Agency. The project develops an online platform to disseminate good-practice examples of renovations of historic buildings which have achieved substanial energy reductions and cabron emission savings whilst safeguarding the cultural significance of the buildings. http://task59.iea-shc.org/ Formerly, project manager and principal researcher for Historic Environment Scotland's participation in the European FP7 project EFFESUS, researching energy efficiency for historic urban districts. www.effesus.eu