The article presents the destructive influence of external factors on building partitions in selected historic buildings made from full-bodied solid ceramic bricks. are an additional element that adversely affects maintaining a good technical condition, and they complementary to number harmful destructively act upon such buildings. In order estimate range damage buildings, have been exposed for...

Influences from environment are inducing structural damage, modification of materials and agglomeration of pollutants, salt and microorganisms which first become visible at outer or inner surfaces of historic buildings. Non-destructive testing methods and especially active thermography are well suited for assessing and monitoring the condition and modification of facades. Active thermography me...

Historical buildings are often energy inefficient. Renewable energy sources can be implemented in the refurbishment projects in order to cover the high-energy consumption with sustainable sources. The paper presents the results obtained in the FP7 Project EFFESUS on the architectural integration of PV systems in the historic city center of Santiago de Compostela. In this case, one of the most c...

Integration of architectural datasets concerning historic buildings depends on their interoperability, which has as first step a mapping to a common schema. The paper investigates current approaches and proposes mapping to a CIDOC-CRM extension as the common glue to overcome the fragmentation of datasets provided by large national institutions such as MIBAC in Italy, EH in the UK, and so on, an...

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has developed several high-resolution 3D imaging systems as well as data modeling and display software for heritage recording applications. Numerous pilot applications development projects have been undertaken in collaboration with several Canadian museums as well as with international partners in China, Italy, the USA, the UK, France and Israel. Th...

Self-regulation of the professions of nursing and midwifery became a reality in South Africa on 8 November 1944, when the first council meeting of the South African Nursing C ouncil took p lace in P re to ria . M ost appropriately, the opening speaker on this occasion was Mr Harry Gordon Lawrence, the Minister of Welfare and Demobilization, who had piloted the Nursing Act, No.45 of 1944, throug...

Historic buildings are the cultural and traditional identity of a country. However, these vulnerable to earthquakes because their aged structure, poor maintenance, inadequate structural health monitoring. Therefore, seismic vulnerability assessment is critical aspect in restoration retrofitting heritage buildings. In this study, comprehensive survey was performed collect data old historic churc...