Fire Extinguishers Agents: Which Impact on Cultural Heritage Materials?
Portable fire extinguishers play an important role in the protection of both cultural heritage properties and the collections housed in...
This category includes posts which deal with standards, rules, studies and researches about historic buildings and artefacts fire safety and protection.
Portable fire extinguishers play an important role in the protection of both cultural heritage properties and the collections housed in...
The NFPA 909 standard, published in 2021, provides guidelines for the protection of cultural resources during fire events. Some key...
The complex structure of the dome of the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, severely damaged by the fire of 1997...
Fire prevention is a discipline that relies in most cases on the use of standardized solutions. The verification of safety...
The 2006 report "Manual Fire Extinguishing Equipment for Protection of Heritage", prepared by COWI within the COST C 17 Action...
On December 5th, 2017, a large brush fire in California has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and...
On May 2012 the United States the Department of Agricolture (USDA) has published the Technical Report: Wildland Fire in Ecosystems...
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published in 2012 a document which is "an indicator-based assessment of past and projected...
Risks to cultural heritage vary from catastrophic events (such as earthquakes, floods, etc) to gradual processes (such as chemical, physical,...
In the International Conference on Safety Issues of Rescue Operations in Underground Structures, held in Rome (Italy) on March 3rd,...
Ageing firefighting installations can cause severe reliability problems in historic buildings. An interesting article (Corrosion Process Inside Steel Fire Sprinkler...
State of New South Wales (Australia) has published the Guidelines on fire safety in heritage buildings. In the introduction to...
Arson has been in history and continues to pose a serious risk to historic and cultural buildings. In fact, the...
One of the issues addressed during the Cost C17 Action "Fire Loss to Built Heritage" has been the role of...
One of the main problems posed by fire protection of cultural resources is the behavior of archaic and support materials...
Cover of the Cost C17 Action Report Final brochure An emerging proposal to initiate an integrated approach to the established...
The Getty Conservation Institute has published on its website the "Building an Emergency Plan", which is the result of a...
Image of a wall of the Roman Forum in Rome, also built to protect the Forum from fires of the...
In the final Report of the Cost C17 Action (Fire Loss to built Heritage) different aspects of fire protection of Cultural...
Cover of the 2004 COWI - RIKSANTIKVAREN - COST C17 publication "White Paper on Water Mist for Protection of Heritage"...
Fire detection systems play a crucial role in ensuring the safety of heritage buildings and museums. However, challenges arise concerning...