The books are structured in such a way as to have direct practical application, to guide the reader through the process of preserving monuments and to emphasize integrative teamwork. This volume – Understanding the Conservation of Historic Buildings – discusses conservation philosophy and the importance of understanding a building`s history before making strategic decisions. It describes the role of each member of the conservation team and describes the challenges of conservation at the planning level in urban, industrial and rural contexts, as well as in the conservation of landscape landscapes. The framework of the legislation and charters in which they operate is described, and the book also provides guidance on drafting conservation plans, explains the fundamental issues of cost accounting and conservation contracts, and highlights the importance of maintenance. The authors examine the key policies and procedures that need to be implemented to ensure effective management. The book will be useful for specialists in built cultural heritage – heritage officers, heritage administrators, architects, planners, engineers and surveyors – as well as for managers of factories and estates whose building stock includes structures or buildings protected or designated in conservation or other historic areas. Streamlining Heritage Building Permits: Lessons Learned from the Use of Management Agreements This book provides a well-illustrated introduction to the discipline of building pathology and bridges the gap between current approaches to building surveying and the detailed study of diagnosis, prognosis and defect restoration. It contains a number of case studies and a detailed set of references and other documents. This new edition explores the management of built heritage through the use of value-based decision-making based on an understanding of the importance of cultural heritage. It examines how importance is assessed and used as an effective objective and driver for management strategies and processes. Derek Worthing has a professional background as an academic and licensed land surveyor.
Until recently, he was Director of the School of Land and Property Management at the University of the West of England, where he was also Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Sustainable Buildings at the Faculty of the Built Environment. He has carried out advisory activities on built heritage for a number of uk national heritage organisations and has published research on conservation plans and the maintenance and repair of listed buildings. Today, he works as a consultant and visiting professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, where he has conducted research on the sustainable management of built cultural heritage as well as conservation plans for the Swedish Heritage Council. It responds to the Government`s commitment in the December 2001 Policy Statement on the Historic Environment, The Historic Environment: A Strength for Our Future, to examine the current impact of management agreements and their future potential. In a broader context, it can be seen as a timely contribution to the revision of the legislation on the protection of cultural heritage announced by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in November 2002 and to other ongoing initiatives on the existing legal framework and guidelines for the protection of the historic environment. This report is the result of a study on the use and effectiveness of the guidelines for the management of listed buildings as defined in the English Heritage Guidance Note Developing guidelines for the management of listed buildings, published in June 1995. and their potential to contribute to the streamlining of the classified building permit regime by making them more efficient in order to help reduce barriers to competition. Eighteen chapters written by the experts present the key issues of historic buildings: Timothy Cantell, Martin Cherry, Nigel Dann, Peter Davenport, Geoff Evans, Keith Falconer, Colin Johns, Jeremy Lake, Jonathan Lovie, Duncan McCallum, James Maitland Gardâner, Martin Robertson, Adrian Stenning, David H.
Tomback, Giles Waterfield, Philip Whitbourn, John Winter. Stephen Bond runs heritage places, a UK-based consultancy that advises national and local governments, management and institutional clients, as well as charitable foundations for the historic environment. In the 1990s, he undertook a seven-year mission to historic royal palaces, first as a fabric surveyor and then as director of the Tower Environs Scheme – a major regeneration programme focused on the urban environment of the Tower of London. Today, he works across the UK and on international projects, most recently contributing to cultural heritage in region-wide capacity building plans and programmes in Africa, Asia and Europe. He has been involved in the Master`s programme in Historic Environmental Conservation at the College of Estate Management for over 20 years, lectures on cultural heritage issues and holds an honorary doctorate from De Montfort University. • Understanding the conservation of historic buildings • Materials and skills in the conservation of historic buildings • Structures and construction in the conservation of historic buildings This book is the first in a series of volumes that combine the philosophy of conservation in the built environment with knowledge of traditional materials as well as structural and constructive conservation techniques and technologies: This second edition has been updated to reflect changes in legislation. reflects the direction and construction and proposes new case studies that demonstrate the breadth and depth of the subject. .