Choosing the Best AES for Each Historic Building
As the world's cultural and historical treasures continue to fascinate us, so too does the threat of fire and its...
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Why Need to Assess Fire Risk in Historic Buildings?
According to Mr Ingval Maxwell, a leading expert on the safety of historic buildings, "about one historic building is damaged...
Why the Notre Dame Fire Improved Historic Buildings Safety
Safety professionals face significant challenges in ensuring the safety of historic buildings, particularly in estimating the impact of fires on...
Historic Timber Doors: The IFE Guide to Fire Resistance
In historic building restoration projects, the role of doors in fire safety assessments is one of the many relevant problems....
Cultural and Historic Losses in the World: 2024 List
This post lists losses covered by cultural media assets. The list may not be complete, as the focus and approach...
How Much to Recover An Earthquake Destroyed City?
On April 6, 2009, an earthquake struck Abruzzo, a region in central Italy, with an epicenter near L'Aquila, the regional...
Search and Rescue in Heritage Sites: a Joint Document
In a groundbreaking collaboration, the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) of the United Nations Office for the Coordination...
Cultural Heritage Resilience: An Overview of Fire Safeguarding Measures
In the annals of history, fires have left an indelible mark, narrating tales of unintentional and deliberate blazes that have...
ProCultHer Report: The European Methology to Cultural Heritage in Emergency
The European Union project called PROCULTHER (Protecting Cultural Heritage from the Consequences of Disasters) aims to protect cultural heritage from...
How safeguard Cultural Heritage from Disasters? an EU analysis
In 2018 the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture EAC.D1 Cultural Policy of the European Commissione has published the...
The NFPA 909 on Museums, Libraries and Places of Worship
The NFPA 909 standard, published in 2021, provides guidelines for the protection of cultural resources during fire events. Some key...
Fire Threat to Cultural Heritage Stone Buildings
The complex structure of the dome of the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, severely damaged by the fire of 1997...
Results of H2020 STORM Project in the Assessment of Damage to Cultural Heritage Buildings Following Seismic Events
The training of the Italian National Fire Brigade (CNVVF) staff has accompanied the evolution of operational needs also in the...
Fire Safety Engineering and Cultural Heritage Buildings
Fire prevention is a discipline that relies in most cases on the use of building elements or standardized solutions. The...
Monitoring and Maintenance of Archaeological Sites: the Conference Proceedings
Historic buildings are by their nature subject to the degradation that time and atmospheric agents entail. To limit the damage...
Risk Management in Cultural Heritage Preservation: A Comprehensive Approach
Heritage managers and caretakers face the challenging task of prioritizing resources to safeguard collections, buildings, monuments, and sites. This involves...
How Protect Cultural Heritage across Borders? a Project on Emergencies
Promedhe has been a project funded by the General-Directorate of the European Commission for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (DG...
Protecting Monuments: a Charter on Restoration and Safety
ICOMOS (the International Council on Monuments and Sites), is a global non-governmental organization associated with UNESCO dedicated to the conservation...
A EU Funded Course on Cultural Heritage Protection and Climate Change
In three weeks, between January and February 2019, the STORM Academy 2019 has been held in Rome, within the EU...
European Forum for Distaster Risk Reduction on Cultural Heritage Resilience
The European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR) forms the regional platform structure of Europe of the UNISDR, the U.N. ...
UNESCO and World Bank on Cultural Heritage and Reconstruction
CURE (Culture in City Reconstruction and Recovery) is a position paper published in 2018 by UNESCO and the World Bank...
Europe Is Ready for Climate Impact. What about Cultural Heritage protection?
Expected annual damage to critical infrastructure in European regions, due toclimate change, by the end of the century (million EUR)...
