Conservation of Buildings & Building Materials

This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlan...

UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory discusses one of the greatest challenges for twenty-first-century society: what is to be done...

Civil courts were originally part of the Assizes from the Middle Ages onwards, but to seek a remedy at these courts for a debt was a costly and tim...

Criminal courts have been a key part of English life since the Middle Ages, and range from small historic, local magistrates courts to huge modern ...

This advice note illustrates the application of the policies set out in the NPPF in determining applications for planning permission and listed bui...

This document is for anyone who is interested in war memorials and would like to apply to get one listed. It will help people to make a detailed ap...

Since Roman times structures have watched over Englands shore and coastal waters to prevent smuggling, to co-ordinate assistance to ships in distre...

This short guide provides an introduction to the history and development of buildings associated with historic amusement parks and fairground rides...

War memorials are important features of our cities, towns and villages. In the aftermath of the war many communities, families and individuals also...

This guide will help you plan and run an effective project. It is written for those planning research and research and development (R&D) projec...

This guidance is intended for anyone interested in or responsible for the care of war memorials. This might include parish, local and district coun...

This report has been prepared in response to a request from the Wordsworth Trust for a detailed understanding of the evolution of Dove Cottage and ...

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage...

Traditional farmsteads and farm buildings make an important contribution to the remarkably varied character of Englands landscape. They are fundame...

A week on a beach, a day at a spa, a hike in the hills -- tourism is taken for granted today, but over the past 500 years, it has played a signific...

This technical advice note describes good practice for cleaning war memorials, outlining a step-by-step approach to aid decisions on whether cleani...

The first edition of 3D Laser Scanning for Heritage was published in 2007 and originated from the Heritage3D project that in 2006 considered the de...

This guidance is primarily intended for owners, occupiers, non-specialist building professionals, and others who take responsibility for historic b...

How do you find out about historic buildings and places? A good place to start is with visual evidence. Original drawings, topographical views, sur...

Arriving in the later 1890s, by the end of the First World War motor vehicles had ousted horses as the main means of transporting goods. In the int...

Until the 20th century, neither the capacity nor the means to inflict major damage upon the British Isles existed. This situation changed during th...

This document forms part of the Greater Lincolnshire Farmsteads Guidance, which aims to inform the sustainable development of historic farmsteads, ...

Public art can be enjoyed by us all. Everyone can play a part in valuing and caring for it. This guidance is aimed at anyone who manages or has res...

Post-Modernism is a movement and a style prevalent in architecture between about 1975 and 1990. It is characterised by its plurality, engagement wi...

Pervious Concrete Pavements: Design, Performance, and Applications provides both a comprehensive theoretical background and practical experiences o...

As slums were cleared after the Blitz, there was a pressing need for housing. Successive governments championed prefabrication as a speedy solution...

This book offers the use of artificial intelligence, image processing, model analysis, laser scanners, shearography, drones, contourlet, wavelet, s...

This is a book about the insects and fungi that may appear in building timbers if unnoticed or unavoidable maintenance problems allow them to remai...

This guide looks at the development of public libraries in England after the Second World War. It places their architecture external and also inte...

This thematic study of later-twentieth-century school buildings was commissioned by English Heritages Schools Working Group. Post-war demand for pl...