EU Funding for Cultural Heritage Safety Research: A Strategic Overview (2021–2026)
How European investment in fire risk, multi-hazard resilience and emergency coordination is shaping heritage protection - and why it's still...
Documents and Research
This category includes posts that deal with research and publications on the risks and protection of cultural heritage
STORM: an Horizon 2020 Research Project on Heritage and Environmental Changes
STORM (Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management) represents one of the European Union's most ambitious efforts to...
Comprehensive FireRiskHeritage Guide for Historic Timber Structures Safety
Historic timber structures represent one of the most vulnerable yet essential components of architectural heritage. From medieval cathedral roofs spanning...
Fire Effects on Heritage Stone: Temperature Thresholds and Assessment
Introduction Stone has long been considered one of the most fire-resistant building materials in architectural history, providing inherent protection to...
Why COST Action C17 still Defines the Agenda for Fire Safety in Historic Buildings
The 2019 Notre-Dame fire and the 2018 Glasgow School of Art disaster revealed a troubling reality: despite decades of advancement...
Damage Limitation Team in Resource-Constrained Heritage Sites
Many cultural heritage sites operate with limited budgets, relying on restricted public funds or modest tourism revenues. Nevertheless, these sites...
Why Steel Doors in Historic Brick Walls Need Special Fire Safety Assessment
One of the most critical fire safety measures to be implemented in every building is the use of fire-rated doors...
Timeless Urban Safety: The Treatise of Roman-Byzantine Palestine
In 2001, Architect Besim S. Hakim published on the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians the paper titled “Julian...
Review and Critique of UNESCO’s Fire Risk Management Guide
In a previous post (Fire Risk Management Guide (2024) Protecting Cultural and Natural Heritage from Fire) , this platform has briefly...
The Neglected Fire Vulnerability of Historic Artefacts
The preservation of immovable cultural heritage in the face of fire hazards presents a unique and critical challenge due to...
Protecting World Heritage Sites: Safety Challenges Under Climate Stress
Climate change poses an escalating threat to UNESCO World Heritage sites worldwide, with 80% of cultural heritage sites already experiencing...
HBIM in Cultural Heritage Buildings Management: Advantages, and Limitations
The conservation of cultural heritage buildings is a cornerstone of su stainable development and cultural continuity. In recent years, Heritage...
Leveraging AI and Social Media for Proactive Safety Assessment in Historic Urban Landscapes
In the dynamic field of cultural heritage management, comprehending the public’s interactions and perceptions of historic urban spaces has become...
An AI Model to Detect Damages on Historic Heritage Walls
Built heritage and traditional dwellings, is a testimony to the history and culture of an area. However, in areas such...
Safety in Transport of Works of Arts
Transporting works of art can expose them to risk of damage, as happened to Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa....
Climate Conditions and Fire Risk in Historical towns
Historic buildings and the areas that house them are subject to a particular fire risk. In fact, many of the...
Wildland Fire Risk and Historical Towns
The wildfires that destroyed significant historical buildings of Los Angeles in early 2025 are just one example of fire risks...
NATO and the new Threats to Cultural Heritage
The special report, entitled "History and Identity Under Attack: Protecting Cultural Heritage in Conflict", written by Julie Dzerowicz for the...
World Heritage: UNESCO Guide to Managing Disaster Risks
According to UNESCO, cultural and natural heritage is increasingly affected by events that “are less and less “natural” in their...
Japan Cultural Heritage Resilience against Natural and Man-made Disasters
Japan has developed extensive experience in disaster risk management (DRM) for cultural heritage (CH) through years of history and disasters,...
EU and Climate Change Risk to Cultural Heritage
An April 2024 report from the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) highlights the growing threat that climate change poses to...
Treating Debris of Historical Value after an Earthquake
Over the last thousand years, at least 2,500 earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 5 have hit Italy. At least...
