There are 320 historical cult buildings as cultural monuments of national significance in Latvia. Cultural and art artifacts (paintings, organs, chairs, altars, pulpits) must be preserved protected these buildings. Specific indoor climate is necessary to maintain pass on future generations, but those specific requirements often complete opposite the actual microclimate what user wants. Indoor m...

according to iranian code of practice for seismic resistant design of buildings standard no. 2800, yazd is located in the place with the medium earthquake hazard [1]. due to the position of yazd with many historical and important buildings, maintaining these traditional heritages is an important task in civil engineering field. on account of these mentioned valuable buildings and region potenti...

Two different types of ancient bricks (XII-XIVth centuries) collected from historical buildings of Toledo (Spain) were characterized by Optical Microscopy, SEM/EDS, Electron microprobe, XRD, DTA and Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy. Physical properties such as water absorption and suction, porosity, density and compression strength were also determined. Several minerals found in the brick matrix, such...

The theory of using Building Information Modelling “BIM” has been used in several Heritage places in the worldwide, in the case of conserving, documenting, managing, and creating full engineering drawings and information. However, one of the most serious issues that facing many experts in order to use the Historical Building Information Modelling “HBIM”, is creating the complicated architectura...

An architectural heritage object carries heterogeneous and multi-layered information beyond physical characteristics. It requires an integrated representation of various types of information for understanding and management prior to the decision-making process of conservation. This requirement is a twofold manner consisting of representation and management processes. There exists a variety of a...