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Practical Building Conservation: Building Environment
Series: Practical Building Conservation
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Ideal for conservation professionals, architects, heritage managers, and students interested in sustainable and health-conscious approaches to historic building preservation.
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Building Environment looks at the interaction between building materials and systems and their surroundings, and how this may lead to deterioration. It presents ways of assessing remedial treatments, and includes discussions on occupant health and sustainable retrofitting.
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Practical Building Conservation: Building Environment examines the interaction between building materials and systems and their surroundings, exploring how this interaction may lead to deterioration. It offers methods for assessing remedial treatments, ensuring that each intervention is carefully considered.
The book includes valuable discussions on occupant health, emphasising the importance of creating safe and healthy indoor environments. Additionally, it addresses the significant topic of sustainable retrofitting, providing insights into making older buildings more energy-efficient while maintaining their historic character.
Series: Practical Building Conservation
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Practical Building Conservation, 10-volume set
Since the original series of Practical Building Conservation appeared in 1988, it has become a standard reference for those caring for historic buildings, large and small: essential reading for architects, surveyors, and building managers, as well as conservators. This new and much expanded set of 10 volumes has been updated to provide a fully comprehensive reference featuring the latest techniques...Set$2,84100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Practical Building Conservation: Building Environment
Practical Building Conservation: Building Environment examines the interaction between building materials and systems and their surroundings, exploring how this interaction may lead to deterioration. It offers methods for assessing remedial treatments, ensuring that each intervention is carefully considered. The book includes valuable discussions on occupant health, emphasising the importance of creating safe and healthy indoor environments. Additionally, it addresses the...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Practical Building Conservation: Concrete
A great deal of research and literature has been produced on repairing concrete structures but very little aimed at conserving the character or appearance of historic examples. Practical Building Conservation: Concrete offers guidance as to how that should be done. It includes a brief history of the use of the material and explains the criteria for listing before assessing decay...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Practical Building Conservation: Earth, Brick and Terracotta
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Practical Building Conservation: Conservation Basics
Conservation Basics examines the evolving theories and principles that underpin building conservation in England in the 21st century, and looks at their application in practice. The process of conservation planning for the maintenance and repair of historic buildings and places is described in detail, and is illustrated through case studies. Topics include understanding and assessment, surveys and recording, ecological considerations,...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Practical Building Conservation: Glass and Glazing
Practical Building Conservation: Glass and Glazing explores the conservation of one of the most important building materials, focusing on its application in windows, roofing, and walling. This book delves into the technological evolution of glass and glazing systems and discusses the processes that lead to deterioration. It offers insights into the practical application and long-term implications of common conservation materials...Hardback$31800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Practical Building Conservation: Metals
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Practical Building Conservation: Mortars, Renders and Plasters
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Practical Building Conservation: Roofing
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Practical Building Conservation: Stone
Practical Building Conservation: Stone considers the wide variety of historical uses, from simple masonry walling through to elaborate carving and decoration. The book explores why stone decays or fails and how to assess and understand the causes. It then focuses on the practical methods of treatment, repair, and maintenance.Hardback$31800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?
William B. Rose of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign praises the book as beautifully organised, well illustrated, and a pleasure to read. He regards it as part of the most comprehensive series in building conservation, highlighting its timely analysis of building environments and conservation processes.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780754645580
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 October 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 220.0mm
Height: 240.0mm
Weight: 1780g
Pages: 656
About the Author
The contents reflect the work of the Building Conservation and Research Team, their colleagues at Historic England, and their consultants and researchers, who together have many decades of accumulated experience in dealing with deteriorating building materials and systems of all types. This multi-disciplinary team of architects, surveyors, conservators and scientists are responsible for standard setting and research across a wide range of Historic England activities. The team specialises in dealing with the practical, technical and scientific aspects of building materials decay and their treatment. The aim has been to provide practical advice by advocating a common approach of firstly understanding the material or building element and why it is deteriorating, and then dealing with the causes. The books concentrate on those aspects which are significant in conservation terms, and reflect the requests for information received by Historic England.
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Practical Building Conservation, 10-volume set
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Practical Building Conservation: Concrete
A great deal of research and literature has been produced on repairing concrete structures but very little aimed at conserving the character or appearance of historic examples. Practical Building Conservation: Concrete offers guidance as to how that should be done. It includes a brief history of the use of the material and explains the criteria for listing before assessing decay...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Practical Building Conservation: Earth, Brick and Terracotta
Practical Building Conservation: Earth, Brick and Terracotta deals with fired and unfired clay products. It considers their technological evolution, the processes causing deterioration and how these should be assessed, and the methods used for their repair and maintenance.Set$35300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Practical Building Conservation: Conservation Basics
Conservation Basics examines the evolving theories and principles that underpin building conservation in England in the 21st century, and looks at their application in practice. The process of conservation planning for the maintenance and repair of historic buildings and places is described in detail, and is illustrated through case studies. Topics include understanding and assessment, surveys and recording, ecological considerations,...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Practical Building Conservation: Mortars, Renders and Plasters
Practical Building Conservation: Mortars, Renders and Plasters provides a broad perspective of contemporary conservation theory and practice not otherwise found in one publication. It describes the history, physical properties, and deterioration of these important materials. Methods of assessing condition and evaluating options for treatment and repair are discussed, together with a range of practical conservation techniques and maintenance strategies.Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Practical Building Conservation: Roofing
Practical Building Conservation: Roofing explores traditional roof coverings used on historic buildings. Many materials and systems have been utilized to provide roof coverings, and the book offers insight into their technological evolution, the processes causing deterioration, and methods for assessing problems and solutions. Furthermore, the book addresses repairs, maintenance, and the conflicts that arise with modern practices. Practical Building Conservation:...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Practical Building Conservation: Glass and Glazing
Practical Building Conservation: Glass and Glazing explores the conservation of one of the most important building materials, focusing on its application in windows, roofing, and walling. This book delves into the technological evolution of glass and glazing systems and discusses the processes that lead to deterioration. It offers insights into the practical application and long-term implications of common conservation materials...Hardback$31800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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