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Bimkubwa Seif Ali, Juan Jose Castro, Shogo Omi and Karishma Nazimi
Ancient civilizations have imprinted their legacy on Zanzibar Stone Town through the construction of revered stone masonry buildings, which are experiencing rapid deterioration due to severe ambient environmental impacts. In response to these challenges,...
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Alba Patrizia Santo, Oana Adriana Cuzman, Dominique Petrocchi, Daniela Pinna, Teresa Salvatici and Brunella Perito
Weathering processes seriously affect the durability of outdoor marble monuments. In urban environments, a very common deterioration phenomenon is the dark discoloration or blackening of marble. This paper describes a multidisciplinary study on the state...
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Giulia Caneva, Daniela Isola, Hyun Ju Lee and Yong Jae Chung
Biological growth represents one of the main threats for the conservation of subterranean cultural heritage. Knowledge of the conditions which favour the various taxonomic groups is important in delineating their control methods. Combining our experience...
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Fernando Bolívar-Galiano, Clara Abad-Ruiz, Pedro Sánchez-Castillo, Maurizio Toscano and Julio Romero-Noguera
Cyanobacteria, green algae and diatoms are significant factors in the biodeterioration of stone cultural heritage sites, and specifically fountain monuments, due to the constant presence of water. In this study, samples were taken from different fountain...
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Radu Claudiu Fierascu, Mihaela Doni and Irina Fierascu
Vernacular buildings are usually constructed using materials at hand, including wood, natural stone and bricks (either clay or mud bricks). All those materials are exposed to a series of environmental factors, affecting their structure and integrity. The...
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Ghulam Nabi, Fiaz Hussain, Ray-Shyan Wu, Vinay Nangia and Riffat Bibi
This study evaluated the effectiveness of soil and water conservation structures for soil erosion control by applying a semi-distributed Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model in various small watersheds of the Chakwal and Attock districts of Pothwa...
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Jeanette Orlowsky, Franziska Braun and Melanie Groh
The durability of eleven different water repellents applied on one sandstone type was studied after a long-term weathering at seven different locations in Germany. By measuring colour changes, it could be shown that the formation of black crusts, the dep...
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Mariaenrica Frigione and Mariateresa Lettieri
In order to protect a material belonging to Cultural Heritage (i.e., stone, wood) from weathering, and in turn to preserve its beauty and historical value for the future generations, the contact with external harmful agents, particularly water, must be a...
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Laura Bergamonti, Marianna Potenza, Federica Scigliuzzo, Sandro Meli, Antonella Casoli, Pier Paolo Lottici and Claudia Graiff
TiO2/OrMoSil-based coatings can be employed as an effective cleaning method to preserve painted carbonate stones. The treatment is also efficient as a protective coating to slow down the degradation phenomena.
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Sara Calandra, Emma Cantisani, Silvia Vettori, Marilena Ricci, Beatrice Agostini and Carlo Alberto Garzonio
During the last restoration campaign of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence (Italy), the assessment of the state of conservation of external surfaces was performed, with a multi-analytical approach, in order to support the conservation and restora...
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Carlos Alves, Carlos A. M. Figueiredo, Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez and Ana C. Hernández
The present work reviews studies with information on the effects of water by itself on stones of the built environment both to assess the impact of this substance and to discuss possible implications for conservation. The analysis concerns empirical resu...
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Marco Roveri, Sara Goidanich and Lucia Toniolo
During the last ten years, photocatalytic nanocomposites combining titania nanoparticles with silicon-based matrices have received increasing attention in the stone conservation research field, because they offer an effective multifunctional approach to ...
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Niccolò Iandelli, Massimo Coli, Tessa Donigaglia and Anna Livia Ciuffreda
The conservation of a primary importance historical building requires organization, management, continuous updating, comparison, and visualization of a large amount of data of different nature and origin. In relation to these aspects the use of a GIS bri...
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Carlos A. León-Robles, Juan F. Reinoso-Gordo and Juan J. González-Quiñones
Certain historical works of civil engineering should be preserved as heritage monuments and when possible should continue serving the function they were designed for. Old stone bridges could be sustainably maintained but their conservation requires accur...
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Alba Patrizia Santo, Beatrice Agostini, Carlo Alberto Garzonio, Elena Pecchioni and Teresa Salvatici
Serpentinite is a low-grade metamorphic rock derived from the transformation of ultramafic rocks. Mainly because of its aesthetic characteristics it has been widely used as a building and ornamental stone. ?Verde di Prato? is the most common local name u...
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Benjamín Otto Ortega-Morales and Christine Claire Gaylarde
Cultural heritage buildings of stone construction require careful restorative actions to maintain them as close to the original condition as possible. This includes consolidation and cleaning of the structure. Traditional consolidants may have poor perfo...
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Karima Amari, Amina Abdessemed Foufa, Mustapha Cheikh Zouaoui and Giuseppina Uva
In Algeria, lighthouses are an essential element of the maritime landscape and constitute a substantial part of the local historical and cultural heritage, marked by a great variety of styles, architecture, geometrical forms, and materials. The study pre...
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Serpentinites are characterized by highly variable mineralogical, physical, and mechanical properties. Serpentinites from Moeche (North Western Spain) have been studied to establish their mineralogical, petrographic, and textural characteristics, as well...
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Juan Corso, Josep Roca and Felipe Buill
This article presents a methodology to process information from a Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) from three dimensions (3D) to two dimensions (2D), and to two dimensions with a color value (2.5D), as a tool to document and analyze heritage buildings. Pr...
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Alessia Giuffrida and Enrico Ciliberto
The conservation of the historic stone heritage has great importance when this material characterizes the image of a city, as it happens in Syracuse (Sicily). Its historical buildings are afflicted by a heavy state of deterioration due to the particular ...
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