{"id":18479,"date":"2018-03-20T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=18479"},"modified":"2018-03-19T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T17:49:07","slug":"ihbcs-school-inspired-cpd-boost-via-conservation-wiki-dbw-and-context-james-cairds-tapestry-of-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=18479","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s School-inspired \u2018CPD boost\u2019, via Conservation Wiki, DBW and Context: James Caird\u2019s \u2018Tapestry of transport\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"waymarker\"<\/a>IHBC Chair James Caird\u2019s 2017 School Context<\/em> journal article on \u2018The conservation of historic transport infrastructure\u2019, from the 2017 Annual School issue, has been featured in the eletter of Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) \u2013 host partner of the IHBC\u2019s Conservation Wiki \u2013 and sent to its 7500+ registered users, extending further the IHBC\u2019s reach into the development and construction sector.<\/h3>\n
image relates to ‘Conservation of transport infrastructure: A tapestry of continued use, new use, preservation, dismantlement, dereliction and abandonment.<\/em><\/h6>\n

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James Caird writes:<\/p>\n

\u2026 by and large, redundant\u00a0civil engineering<\/a>\u00a0components<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 such as embankments, viaducts, channels and aqueducts \u2013 have little economic value and are liable to redevelopment, material retrieval, farmland\u00a0restoration<\/a>, silting and erosion such that there is no practical option than to allow them to fall into the realms of contemporary\u00a0archaeology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So the\u00a0conservation<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0transport<\/a>\u00a0infrastructure<\/a>\u00a0is a tapestry of continued use, new use, preservation, dismantlement, dereliction, abandonment, removal, historic record, re-imagining and memory punctuated in both townscape and landscape by those parts which manage to retain a present-day value.<\/p>\n

See the original article<\/a><\/p>\n

See the full issue<\/a><\/p>\n

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