Discover how people around the world are using technology to protect their cultural sites against climate change. In association with CyArk and ICOMOS.
Scottish Lime Centre Trust and HES Publish Historic Mortars Paper
Technical Paper 32 has been published by HES as a joint project with the SLCT.
This publication looks at trends that can be discerned from the historic lime mortars database held by the Scottish Lime Centre Trust.
This includes aggregate and binder composition, mix practice and provenance of materials. It also considers changes in practice and regional variations.
It is a valuable insight to the historic world of lime production and usage in Scotland.
Heritage 2020 Comes to a Close, Merges into HEF
The Heritage 2020 programme comes to an end this October, 2020.
The website will be the main way of ensuring a legacy for the work. Over the next month or so the Heritage 2020 website will be re-developed into the new Historic Environment Forum (HEF) website. The intention is that the new website will include a Heritage 2020 section that holds topic-based and working group information.
In addition, Heritage Chat, which was started in November 2017, has been handed over to the new HEF Team so that it will continue to be a mechanism for a digital conversation and means of supporting collaboration in the Historic Environment sector in England. The @HeritageChat handle will therefore remain in place, whilst @Heritage2020 will be repurposed for HEF. And of course the new HEF is in itself a legacy of the Heritage 2020 programme and I look forward to seeing the areas that are chosen as the focus of future task groups.
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Leica Geosystems’ Digital Event – September 2020
Join us the week of Monday, 28 September as we take you on a journey of discovery from our resident experts. Each session is designed to give you insights about our innovative solutions but also help you think about how these can be beneficial to your business moving forward.
Select and register for the sessions you would like to join. If you miss a session, don’t worry, a recording will be sent to you for any that you have registered for.
See more here.
Scottish Lime Centre Trust – Courses and Seminars in Traditional Building Skills
The Scottish Lime Centre Trust provides courses in traditional building skills suitable for a range of levels from beginner to expert. Examples include “Repairing Traditional Masonry Structures,” “Making and Using Traditional Mortars,” “Introduction to Scottish Slating Practices,” amongst many more.
To find out more, including course dates and further information, visit their website here.
Sustainable Built Environment: SBE21 Heritage Conference
the EURAC research group of ENERGY RETROFIT OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS is going to organise an international conference within the SBE series http://www.sbe-series.org/ with the special focus on energy efficient historic buildings. I do not want to miss the opportunity to invite you to this SBE21 Heritage Conference, which will take place in Bolzano (Italy), from the 14th to the 16th of April 2021. The conference will be an excellent platform to present research work from our members. Furthermore, we would be very pleased if you could share the information and the Call for Paper also with your networks.
The conference aims at fostering multidisciplinary dialogues and finding new affordable and efficient retrofit approaches to save our common heritage and guarantee a sustainable future. Scholars and practitioners working in the fields of energy efficiency and historic building conservation are invited to send their contributions by the 31st August 2020. the 15th September 2020.
Why to attend SBE21 Heritage:
- Listen to inspiring keynote speakers, discuss “how to achieve a low-carbon built heritage”
- Meet experts from over 14 countries involved in the partnering projects to discuss future project ideas on energy retrofit of historic buildings.
- Publish your contribution on a scientific high-level publication
- Enjoy a rich social and entertainment program, including receptions, social dinner, and study tours
- Discover the wonderful Dolomite Mountains and the magic atmosphere of Bolzano in Spring
Attached to this email you can find the call for proposals and a press release (please be aware about the new deadlines!). For further information please visit sbe21heritage.eurac.edu or send an email to sbe21heritage@eurac.edu.
Feedback Sought on the EU Urban Agenda – Partnership on Culture / Cultural Heritage
The Urban Agenda for the EU was launched in May 2016 with the Pact of Amsterdam. It represents a new multi-level working method promoting cooperation between Member States, cities, the European Commission and other stakeholders in order to stimulate growth, liveability and innovation in the cities of Europe and to identify and successfully tackle social challenges (https://ec.europa.eu/
Until the 9th of September a consultation is initiated about the Background Paper for culture and culturale Heritage.
“This Background Paper presents the draft actions developed by the Partnership on Culture / Cultural Heritage and submitted to Public Feedback.
https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/
Everyone is invited to provide comments on one or several of the draft actions via an online survey tool, which is accessible via the Futurium online platform.
The results of the online Public Feedback will be taken into consideration by the members of the Partnerships for the preparation of the final version of the Action Plan, which will be presented to the DG meeting on urban matters held once every EU presidency.
Contributions are sought from individuals and national authorities, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organisations, social partners and civil society, academic institutions, financial institutions, international organisations, EU institutions and agencies, based in EU Member States or third countries.”
On several draft actions Cultural Heritage and Climate Change are topics.
ICOMOS Webinar Series
Webinar 1: “Improvisation and Planning in Architectural Conservation Teaching and Learning: Experiences of Online versus Face-to-Face so far”
Some experiences around the globe about transforming courses to be delivered remotely, how to overcome the lack/reduction of fieldwork and site visits, etc. Opportunities and problems ahead.
Moderator: Ebru Omay Polat (Istanbul Bilgi University)
Claudine Déom (Université de Montréal): “Revisiting heritage conservation education”
Claudio Varagnoli, University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy): “Teaching to preserve the 20th century architecture: online and face-to-face experiences, challenges and opportunities”
Cristina González-Longo (University of Strathclyde, UK): “Architectural Conservation teaching and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: some front-line experiences and opportunities ahead”
Bhairavi Kaniyal (University of Strathclyde): ”A Masters student perspective”
Position available on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (Junior/ Experienced Researcher)
The Historical and Masonry Structures (HMS) group of the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), University of Minho, Portugal, plans to open soon a position for a junior or experienced researcher already with a PhD (duration of the contract may be up to 4 years) to join the STAND4HERITAGE project, which is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant.
The position will focus on the stochastic analysis of the seismic signal with the aim to generate a representative variation of ground motion records (both source and structure-sensitive), and to examine the influence of the signal on the dynamic (seismic) behaviour of masonry structures.
Necessary qualifications: PhD degree in Civil Engineering or Earthquake Engineering with a strong background in stochastic analysis and geophysics, or similar qualifications.
If interested, please send your résumé to Dr Anastasios Giouvanidis (agiouvanidis@civil.uminho.pt) until Sunday, August 23rd (23:59 GMT).
ICOMOS Heritage and Climate Change Webinar
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The Heritage and Climate Change Webinar and the virtual course Climate Change and Risk Assessment for Cultural Heritage are the first activities organized within the framework of the “New approaches to cultural and natural heritage Program” by the Argentine Committee of ICOMOS, La Plata City Foundation and the Heritage and Climate Change Initiative. The objective of this webinar is to disseminate a series of projects and actions related to heritage conservation and their importance in the implementation of climate change mitigation strategies. Professors: Professors Invited: |