Cairo’s Islamic architectural heritage represents one of the world’s most significant concentrations of pre-industrial environmental ingenuity. For over a millennium, an integrated suite of passive climate-control systems—the Mašrabiya latticework screen,
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Cultural heritage conservation is increasingly affected by environmental degradation, climate change, and intensified human pressures, which accelerate the decay of historic materials and call for more resilient and adaptive conservation approaches.
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Preventive conservation in museums.
What is preventive conservation? Artefacts, whether tools for cutting or pictures for viewing, are functional objects (Caple 2006, 8-13). They are maintained during their working lives by their owners to ensure they remain functional and effective. Thus, the good carpenter ensures that his tools are cleaned, sharpened and, if stored, have a light coat
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Software for storage and management of microclimatic data for preventive conservation of cultural heritage. [PDF]
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Filamentous Fungi and the Biodeterioration of Organic Cultural Heritage Materials: A Systematic Review of Mechanisms, Risks, and Preventive Conservation Strategies. [PDF]
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Preventive conservation engineering practice based on deformation resistance capacity evaluation of heritage buildings. [PDF]
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Microclimate monitoring of Ariadne's house (Pompeii, Italy) for preventive conservation of fresco paintings. [PDF]
Merello P, García-Diego FJ, Zarzo M.
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The CHEWMA Chart: A New Statistical Control Approach for Microclimate Monitoring in Preventive Conservation of Cultural Heritage. [PDF]
Díaz-Arellano I, Zarzo M.
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Preventive conservation of documents
Paper documents undergo constant changes in their physical and functional composition, which endangers the information contained in them. This document defines some basic notions regarding the subject, addresses the composition and structure of paper, as well as the intrinsic and extrinsic causes of its degradation.
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Assessing microclimate thresholds for heritage preventive conservation to achieve sustainable and energy efficiency goals in a changing climate. [PDF]
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