Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development: Volume 8 Issue 2

Preventive and planned conservation as a new management approach for built heritage: from a physical health check to empowering communities and activating (lost) traditions for local sustainable development

Aziliz Vandesande, Koenraad van Balen, Stefano Della Torre, Fausto Cardoso

A preventive conservation approach for historical timber roof structures

Nathalie Van Roy, Els Verstrynge, Koenraad van Balen

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the assets of a preventive conservation approach for historical timber roof structures, as a means to improve the quality and durability…

Nineteenth-century housing preventive conservation in Edinburgh and its Western European context

Dimitris Theodossopoulos

The purpose of this paper is to explore how comprehensive the management of common repairs in the nineteenth-century urban housing in Edinburgh is in the European context. The…

Planned conservation in Pompeii: complexity and methodological choices

Massimo Osanna, Enrico Rinaldi

The planned maintenance service, conducted within the scope of the Great Pompeii Project, presents a high degree of complexity. The purpose of this paper is to describe the…

Complex properties management: Preventive and planned conservation applied to the Royal Villa and Park in Monza

Rossella Moioli, Cristina Boniotti, Anthoula Konsta, Alessandra Pili

The paper will present the case study of preventive and planned conservation applied to the Royal Villa and Park of Monza, which is one of the pilot projects within the general…

Interactions between restoration and financial analysis: the case of Cuneo War Wounded House

Rita Fabbri, Laura Gabrielli, Aurora Greta Ruggeri

The purpose of this paper is to examine the cross-sectoral collaboration between conservation and economic appraisal, and to process a financial analysis for private owners of a…

Merging and expanding existing ontologies to cover the Built Cultural Heritage domain

Olga Piedad Zalamea Patino, Jos Van Orshoven, Thérèse Steenberghen

The purpose of this paper is to present the development of an ontological model consisting of terms and relationships between these terms, creating a conceptual information model…

Bridging planned conservation and community empowerment: Portuguese case studies

Teresa Cunha Ferreira

In the present-day context of a sharp decrease in economic and ecological resources, planned conservation and community empowerment are key strategies for sustainable heritage…

Traditional architecture and sustainable conservation

Luis Fernando Guerrero Baca, Francisco Javier Soria López

The purpose of this paper is to examine the need to go beyond the “monumentalist” vision in restoration of built heritage and embrace principles of sustainability in this…

Preventive conservation tools in southern Ecuador

Fausto Cardoso, Maria Cecilia Achig-Balarezo, Gabriela Barsallo

The purpose of this paper is to present tools to support the preventive conservation of heritage buildings as part of the results of the vlirCPM research project. The tools…