IHBC volunteers, officers and staff make huge efforts to reach out to new audiences for conservation, but next week’s travels by IHBC director Sean O’Reilly are especially wide as he chairs a session of the IHBC CPD recognised conference on ‘Conserving and regenerating heritage buildings’ in Manchester on Tuesday, targeting non-conservation specialists, where the IHBC will host a stand, and on Friday explains how risk management in conservation offers lessons on ‘Risk Reduction for Resilient Cities’ at the international conference at the University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, using the IHBC’s journal Context and B.S. 7913 as joint guides.
On Manchester the organisers write:
Timber experts Exova BM TRADA have teamed up with leading construction and environmental consultants RSK, to co-host a FREE one-day seminar, which is recognised by the IHBC for CPD, on the challenges and obstacles encountered when conserving and regenerating heritage buildings, on Tuesday 1 November at the Museum of Science & Industry building in Manchester.
The UK’s historic built environment is unique and many buildings are irreplaceable. Inspection and assessment of these buildings and their components presents technical challenges for conservation experts when undertaking renovation. This seminar is aimed at construction professionals who need to be aware of these challenges and how to overcome them. Through a series of talks by industry professionals, delegates will gain an appreciation of the issues involved in conserving and regenerating historic buildings and how to overcome the challenges.
Bringing together some of the UK’s leading technical experts on structural assessment, renovation, fire and conservation, this seminar will be extremely valuable for construction professionals who deal with historic buildings. There will be a particular focus on case studies and examples of excellence delivered by a team that includes geomaterials scientists, conservators, geophysicists, structural engineers and timber technical consultants.
Topics to be covered include:
- The role of Historic England
- Application of ground penetrating radar and other non-intrusive methods
- Structural assessment of historic buildings
- Assessing the condition and strength of structural timber in historic buildings
- The role of petrographic analysis
- Decorative plaster ceiling conservation and investigation
- The role of fire assessment and implementation of fire risk mitigation strategies
- Regenerating historic buildings: the contractor’s experience
Download the full seminar brochure
Find out more at Exova BM TRADA…. and at RSK
Read more about BS 7913 and for more on the application of BS 7913 see the NewsBlog
Copies of BS 7913 are available to IHBC members and their employers at the discounted rate of £112, plus UK p+p of £8 (overseas postage on enquiry).
On the international conference ‘Risk Reduction for Resilient Cities’ the organisers in Bucharest write:
Romania, European country, is strongly exposed to seismic hazards coming from Vrancea area, likely to affect more than 50% of its national territory. A single occurrence of high magnitude can cause significant trans-border effects in the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Bulgaria, as it already happened during the earthquakes in 1940 and 1977, when there were over 1,600 victims and the damages rose to 2 billion USD (World Bank, 1978).
In Bucharest, Romanian’s capital city the post-seismic strategy after March 4, 1977 disaster turned from strengthening and rehabilitation into the demolition of the old affected tissue. The reconstruction of 450 ha of the city affected one third of the urban population. The drama of one’s uprooting, loss of identity, of communities’ destruction left unhealed traces.
The correct reaction to multi-hazard as well as to aggressive contemporary real estate developments requires a fair assessment of the existing built fund that can become the renewable resources, and particularly to the heritage that must be protected as nonrenewable resource.
The conference aims to identify the critical apparatus that would underlie the analysis of the built fund exposed to multi-hazard, as well as to the pressures of developers, within a balanced relation between the cultural and functional value of significance and its value of vulnerability. The objectives will be linked to identifying the methodologies for establishing the urban, architectural and structural intervention decisions that would support the land development in terms of protecting the existing background and the exposed heritage.
Objectives
The objectives of the conference are:
- To provide a forum for professionals, researchers and students and post-doc students as means for dissemination and utilization of research results;
- To support collaborations between researchers and institutions in the promotion and production of multidisciplinary research in protected areas;
- To recognize meritorious contributions of researchers and institutions;
- To promote quality research publications as credible sources of scientific literature;
- Education on reducing the risk of disasters needs to be a component of the development program, by organizing approved groups having an educational role on various levels: the political level (national planners, management directors); community level (community leaders, public, teachers, students, local secular and religious leaders) and the level of volunteers (volunteers in disasters, spontaneous leaders);
- Transmission of knowledge about architecture structure and urbanism strategies in reducing the risk of disaster from researchers, practitioners, officials to civil communities.
Theme
Reduction of the multi-hazard risk in protected urban areas through architecture, engineering and urbanism strategies for ensuring cities’ resilience.
Partner institutions
- Academy of Technical Sciences from Romania – ASTR
- Ministry of Education and Scientific Research – MECS
- National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation – ANCS – UEFISCDI
- Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration – MDRAP
- General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations – ISU
- Technical University of Constructions Bucharest – UTCB
- Union of Architects in Romania – UAR
- Architects’ Order from Romania – OAR
- Register of Urban Planners from Romania – RUR
For more on the Bucharest conference see http://www.rrrc.ro
Read more about BS 7913 and for more on the application of BS 7913 see the NewsBlog
Copies of BS 7913 are available to IHBC members and their employers at the discounted rate of £112, plus UK p+p of £8 (overseas postage on enquiry).
