Architectural Conservation and Building Conservation

The effective management of facilities can significantly improve business productivity. In this textbook the authors provide an overview of facility economics and outline the way in which businesses and facility managers can get better value from their physical assets.Students on facilities manageme..

Suitable for those involved in the repair, maintenance and refurbishment of traditional buildings, this title begins by explaining how traditional structures work and how they are affected by the behaviour of the soil that supports them. It then goes on to explain how the structural design of buildi..

Understanding the unique requirements of traditional buildings is crucial to providing appropriate guidance on their care and repair. This book helps practitioners identify the particular issues relating to older buildings and the problems they may encounter when surveying and repairing them...

This bestselling book has been fully revised and updated to include valuable new case studies and examples which help to demonstrate the common problems found in older buildings...

This book brings together ecological conservation theory and heritage preservation theory and shows how these two realms have common purpose...

Offers an artistic interpretation of the way plaster was used in response to stylistic changes. This title explores how plaster materials and methods were developed and used, giving an insight into some of the unusual substances added to plaster...

Shortlisted for the 2014 SAHGB Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion.  Certainly, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many societies, including classical Rome and Greece. But only in modern Europe and America, in the last two centuries, has this care been elaborated and en..

Shortlisted for the 2014 SAHGB Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion.  Certainly, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many societies, including classical Rome and Greece. But only in modern Europe and America, in the last two centuries, has this care been elaborated and en..

Assessing fifty years of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), passed in 1966, this volume examines the impact of this key piece of legislation on heritage practices in the United States. The editors and contributing authors summarize how we approached compliance in the past, how we approac..

Associating social justice with landscape is not new, yet the twenty-first century's heightened threats to landscape and their impact on both human and, more generally, nature's habitats necessitate novel intellectual tools to address such challenges. This book introduces a rich new discourse on lan..

First published in 1932, this study provides a general account of the factors which cause decay of building stones and a summary of the best methods to reduce the incidence of decay...

This is the first book to tackle all the issues relating to timber decay. It presents the facts and explores timber decay problems through case studies. These are illustrated with clear self- explanatory photographs...