Conservation of Buildings & Building Materials

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...

Many modern engineering structures are composed of brittle heterogenous, or quasibrittle, materials. These include concrete, composites, tough cera...

This book introduces details of inspection criteria and inspection techniques, which are widely recognized by the marine construction industry as a...

This book integrates of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Decision Support Systems (DSS) in the field of building design, construction, and m...