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David Watt BSc (Hons), Dip Arch Cons (Leic), PhD, MSc, FRICS, IHBC. He is a chartered building surveyor and historic buildings consultant, working as Associate Director with Hutton + Rostron Environmental Investigations Limited. He is also Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Sustainable Heritage at University College London and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Lincoln. He has worked in both private and public sectors, having been Conservation Officer with Norfolk County Council between 1991 and 1996, and Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University between 1996 and 2005 where he taught on post-graduate conservation courses, supervised research students and provided consultancy services to a range of clients. He also undertook and published research on various aspects of architectural conservation and building pathology, with particular interests relating to the use of traditional building materials and the influence of people and environmental conditions on buildings and monuments. He is the author of Building Pathology: Principles and Practice (Blackwell Publishing, 1999, 2007), co-author of Measurement and Recording of Historic Buildings (Donhead Publishing, 1993, 2004), and was Editor of the Journal of Architectural Conservation for ten years until 2005.