Preservation, Reconstruction or Conversion - Contemporary Challenge for Historic Urban Areas and Historic Buildings

Wallpapers in Historic Preservation

Energy efficiency in historic buildings

The particularity of cultural heritage and its interaction with the theme of energy efficiency has often been analysed either for the purposes of integrating climate control systems in listed buildings, which can be quite a complicated problem [ASHRAE, 2003] [CIBSE, 2002], or in the framework of the conservation of cultural heritage, using approaches which at times can be overly sectoral – [Tet...

Hindcasting vs. Historic Reconstruction

The goal of my article was not to review the Camp Lejeune (CLJ) modeling studies. Rather it was to use the CLJ problem as an example to highlight issues related to model complexities and to spark an open debate on when, where, and why we should limit model complexity. I would like to first thank Maslia and his nine co-authors for contributing to this debate. I believe this is an important debat...

Identifying contemporary and historic sources of soil

1 VIZARD, C.G, RIMMER, D.L, PLESS-MULLOLI, T, SINGLETON, I, & AIR, V.S. 2 Identifying contemporary and historic sources of soil polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins 3 and polychlorinated dibenzofurans in an industrial urban setting. Science of the Total 4 Environment 2006, 370(1), 61-69. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.06.006 5 6 Identifying contemporary and historic sources of soil 7 polychlorinated...

new functions in historic buildings

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