The Heritage of War and the Discourse of Sustainability

Figenschau, Ingar O.

doi:10.1080/00293652.2019.1691253

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“…Historic reinforced concrete (HRC) structures built until the first half of the twentieth century include different type of buildings such as churches and museums, but also warlike buildings (i.e., bunkers, fortifications, air-raid shelters, military structures) that have their own significance. These structures have been long characterized by a lack of awareness regarding their heritage value but over the last decades, they have been invested by a new understanding as social, historical, and economic resource, leading to a rising consciousness of the importance of investigating concrete material in the built heritage for its conservation (Figenschau, 2019). Their huge dimensions and massive envelope together with their proximity to urban centres all over Europe, make them unique architectural landmarks and offer the opportunity to repurpose the original intended use, taking advantage of their monumental construction.…”

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Climate-Induced Conservation Risks of Historic Reinforced Concrete Buildings: Preliminary Results From Literature Review

Boccacci,

Frasca,

Bartolucci

et al. 2023

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

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Abstract. Environmental conditions can favour different kinds of deterioration in historic reinforced concrete structures. This preliminary results from literature review are focused on the climate-induced risks affecting reinforced concrete buildings with respect to mechanical, chemical, and biological deterioration. To this purpose, a three-step process defined by the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) flow diagram, was used leading to the inclusion of 45 documents identified via the search engines Scopus and Web of Science. The outcomes highlight that chemical and mechanical decays are the most investigated ones, being mainly triggered by salt weathering and freezing-thawing cycles. It was found that experimental and theoretical approaches are often coupled to estimate climate-induced deterioration mechanisms, also considering environmental parameters. Finally, the literature search provides some milestones which can be used to evaluate gaps and research needs in the field of climate-induced conservative risks affecting reinforced concrete structures.

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