In connection with a query we have had from the HLF, does anyone know of a
repository which has successfully managed to comply with the new BS5454 (or
indeed the old one) using passive methods alone? I remember this being
discussed at the event at Essex CRO last year, and someone mentioned they
had tried it, but it had not worked as successfully as hoped. My own
experience here has been that, while it might be fairly easy to keep within
the outer limits for temperature and humidity specified in the Standard, it
would be extremely difficult to keep fluctuationwithin these limits to BS,
unless you had a very solid and sophisticated building design.
Kevin Mulley
Bury Archive Service
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