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Reliability monitoring of the rainwater disposal system for historic buildings

Boekbijdrage - Boekhoofdstuk Conferentiebijdrage

Within the framework of the CHANGES-project, maintenance practices in the Mechelen urban region are studied based on eleven case studies. The CHANGES-project is a European research project within the framework of the JPI Cultural Heritage. For the Flemish partners, the project's main aims are amongst others to identify maintenance practices and to study their efficacy and the technical quality of executed interventions. This paper focuses on developing a method of analysis for evaluating the reliability of historic buildings' rainwater disposal systems. The aspects that determine the reliability of a historic building's rainwater disposal system were identified based on a case study. The analysis does not consider the importance of the sustainability of the conservation process itself, which together with the rainwater disposal system's reliability defines its quality. The developed method is validated within the CHANGES-project through its application on a larger set of case studies. The reliability monitoring approach, described in this paper for one case, will allow to understand and evaluate the efficacy of maintenance practices. Furthermore, it analyses the functioning of the historic houses' rainwater disposal system at a conceptual level, which is an added value for the implementation of preventive conservation systems, for future research on the quality of interventions, and for the development of tools and practical implementation of quality management systems in heritage preservation.
Boek: Proceedings of the 4th WTA International PhD Symposium
Pagina's: 47 - 54
Jaar van publicatie:2017