Preventive Conservation of Historic Buildings

Balen, Koenraad Van

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“…It is also found that it widens the responsibility for preservation to a larger fraction of society than traditional conservation practices do (Van Balen, 2015).…”

Section: Preventive Conservationmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…This requires a multifaceted approach, tapping into different strategies and tools that contribute to that goal. These can be "curative" or "preventive", as argued in previous publications, using the analogy with medicine, they can be compared with "Curative (medical) Care" versus "Public Health" (Van Balen, 2015).…”

Section: Preventive Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Preventive Conservation broadens the responsibility for preservation to a larger fraction of society than traditional conservation practices do (Van Balen, 2015). In order to reduce disaster risks the "Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction" (UNISDR 2015) also stresses the importance of investments in the economic, social, health, cultural and educational resilience of persons, communities and countries.…”

Section: Empoweringmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Challenges that Preventive Conservation poses to the Cultural Heritage documentation field

Balen

2017

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:This contribution examines the challenges posed to the cultural heritage documentation community (the CIPA community and others) in implementing a preventive conservation approach of the built heritage in today's society. The "DNA" of Preventive Conservation. Various authors so far support the argument that preventive conservation is an effective way to respond to the challenges society faces with the preservation of its Cultural Heritage . A few decades of experiences with the application of preventive conservation in the field of immovable heritage in the form of Monumentenwacht in The Netherland and in Flanders have shown that a good monitoring of the state of preservation with a stron g push for maintenance activities contributes to more preservation of authenticity, to more cost-effective preservation and to empowering society in dealing with heritage preservation. (Cebron, 2008) An analysis of these and similar experiences demonstrates that these "Monumentenwacht" activities represent only a part of what could be named a preventive conservation system. Other fields in which prevention is advocated for its higher efficiency, show the importance of system thinking in the development of improved strategies. Applying this approach to the field of the immovable heritage, referring to the initial results shown by the Monumentenwacht practices, it becomes clear that different dimension are at stake simultaneously: the preservation of authenticity or integri ty, the management of resources and the connection with society. It shows that the analysis of challenges in heritage preservation and the development of strategies is à priori multifaceted and therefor has a certain level of complexity. The sustainability of the preservation of cultural heritage buildings and sites can be measured according to its multiple economic, social, environmental and cultural support. The Cultural Heritage Counts for Europe report shows that the more diverse the support is for cultural heritage preservation actions, the more those actions will contribute to sustainable development and the more sustainable the preservation of that heritage will be. This reasoning has led to the "upstream approach" which argues that cultural heritage preservation can benefit from a variety of resources which do not necessarily have to be earmarked for it à priori (CHCfE, 2015). It leads to arguing for an holistic and integrated approach for cultural heritage preservation that taps into different kinds of resources, which requires acknowledgement of the complex nature of understanding and managing heritage values into an overall societal development goal (Vandesande, 2017).Challenges in the Cultural Heritage documentation field. Documentation needs in the field of cultural heritage preservation therefor are challenged by the complexity of the sources of information, by the need to integrate them in an holistic tool and by the way they are able to dialogue with society. 1.The proper analysis of heritage requires increasing efforts by the diversi...

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“…It is also found that it widens the responsibility for preservation to a larger fraction of society than traditional conservation practices do (Van Balen, 2015).…”

Section: Preventive Conservationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Preventive Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Balen

2017

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“…Although a pro-active approach towards monitoring already gained importance since the 1990s, as "a reflection of the growing commitment to improving management frameworks for care of cultural heritage through the use of monitoring, which is understood as a key component of the management process" (Stovel, 2008, p. 15), the built heritage field has largely failed to resolve the issue of maintenance and in extension of preventive conservation. As outlined by Van Balen (2015), the implementation of preventive conservation requires a system approach assuring the interaction between different components, some of which are addressed in this special issue.…”

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Preventive and planned conservation as a new management approach for built heritage: from a physical health check to empowering communities and activating (lost) traditions for local sustainable development

Vandesande

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Torre

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Preventive and planned conservation as a new management approach for built heritage: from a physical health check to empowering communities and activating (lost) traditions for local sustainable development Aziliz Vandesande, Koenraad van Balen, Stefano Della Torre, Fausto Cardoso, Article information:To cite this document: Aziliz Vandesande, Koenraad van Balen, Stefano Della Torre, Fausto Cardoso, (2018) "Preventive and planned conservation as a new management approach for built heritage: from a physical health check to empowering communities and activating (lost) traditions for local sustainable development",

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“…shared among the owners of all the flats) a priority at a par with monumental heritage, shifting towards the concept of planned or preventive conservation (Della Torre 2014, van Balen 2011. The need for such repairs is extensive, concering decorative elements and the envelope (blocked gutters retaining water and eroding parapets, balustrades and cornices; delaminating stone at windows mullions, eroding stone chimneys, degradation of ashlar stone or plasterwork) or the structure (tying of internal brick or timber stud walls to the external load-bearing walls, settlement) (SCOSS 2006).…”

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Nineteenth-century housing preventive conservation in Edinburgh and its Western European context

Theodossopoulos

2018

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Purpose This paper explores how comprehensive the management of common repairs in 19th century urban housing in Edinburgh is in the European context. The city experienced a variety of approaches since the 1970s to repairs of exposed decorative elements and the envelope, whose condition is exacerbated by inappropriate interventions and climate change. MethodologyThe debate is framed in practice in W. Europe where economy, administration and conservation cultures have been similar since the 1970s: Glasgow (property manager), Venice (role of housing agency), Flanders (Monumentenwacht's periodical inspections for subscribers), tax incentives (France, Italy, Spain), linking management and procurement (Libretto Casa, Rome), the emerging concept of preventive conservation. FindingsEdinburgh has a holistic and technically rich management experience, with a strong educational focus, which shows the immense volume of work required, hampered by the fragmentation of ownership and the small size of the repair industry. Practice can improve in Edinburgh and Europe through increased awareness, tax incentives, regular inspections, legal recognition of the need for maintenance and stepping-up the debate at national, European and political level, towards preventive conservation approaches. Research limitationsThe study profited from direct knowledge of the approach in Edinburgh and other areas, but little has been published on each area outside local level, so appraisal depended on language knowledge.Originality/value This first reading of practice at European level may be of value to the national agencies referred to, for policy development or European initiatives.

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Preventive Conservation of Historic Buildings

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Challenges that Preventive Conservation poses to the Cultural Heritage documentation field

Challenges that Preventive Conservation poses to the Cultural Heritage documentation field

Preventive and planned conservation as a new management approach for built heritage: from a physical health check to empowering communities and activating (lost) traditions for local sustainable development

Nineteenth-century housing preventive conservation in Edinburgh and its Western European context

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