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Preventive conservation applied to built heritage: A working definition and influencing factors

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© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, London. Preventive conservation of built heritage is increasingly of interest to academic research and professionals in the sector, with promising examples that demonstrate the viability of this approach. Accordingly, there is ample data and material from different research fields, with scopes and focus. Nevertheless, a general overview or commonly held delineation is not yet developed. The aim of this paper is to develop a working definition for preventive conservation of built heritage. The research consists of an inductive analysis based on evidence originating from existing research within the UNESCO Chair on preventive conservation, monitoring and maintenance of monuments and sites (PRECOM 3 OS) network, literature on general building maintenance and short descriptive case studies, while using influencing factors of preventive conservation practice and implementation as a proxy. The proposed working definition of preventive conservation starts from condition-based maintenance with a monitoring system, which is the least destructive of all interventions which inevitably occur in the built heritage conservation process. While this preventive conservation approach has several benefits, its practice and implementation are characterised by different influencing factors, i.e. the available knowledge and know-how as well as financial, environmental and social factors.
Boek: Innovative Built Heritage Models
Pagina's: 63 - 72
ISBN:9781138498617
Jaar van publicatie:2018
BOF-keylabel:ja
IOF-keylabel:ja
Authors from:Higher Education