Conservation of Buildings & Building Materials

With contemporary design being redefined by architects and urbanists who are recovering the historic language associated with traditional architect...

'Life-cycle Maintenance Management Framework for Medium and Short-Span Concrete Bridge Elements' describes a set of performance prediction and main...

Cairo, 'Mother of the World': its vividly diverse neighborhoods and building styles reveal its cosmopolitan energy and reflect the myriad of econom...

Governments across the globe are setting targets for reducing their carbon emissions. For example, the UK Government has committed to an eighty per...

From Palo Duro Canyon in the Panhandle to Lake Corpus Christi on the coast, from Balmorhea in far West Texas to Caddo Lake near the Louisiana borde...

This guidance note provides advice on the principles, risks, materials and methods for insulating pitched roofs at rafter level. When insulation is...

This guidance note provides advice on the methods, materials and risks involved with insulating the walls of timber-framed buildings. Making improv...

Historische Bauwerke erlauben uns Einsichten in das Wesen an sich bereits verflüchtigter, auf andere Weise nicht mehr erfahrbarer Zeitabschnitte. D...

This guide is for local authorities, owners and others involved in the conservation of Georgian and Victorian / early 20th century terraced housing...

Fibrous plaster is a form of decorative plasterwork composed of plaster of Paris, reinforced with layers of hessian and secured within a timber fra...

Preserving the Vanishing City considers the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Clevelands historic preservation community duri...

Local heritage whether buildings, monuments, sites, places, areas, historic parks and gardens or other designed landscapes plays an essential rol...

In the later 20th century ever-larger, and sometimes architecturally ambitious, commercial office buildings proliferated in many cities. The dereg...