Cultural Heritage Protection against Fire: the main Issues
In the annals of history, fires have left an indelible mark, narrating tales of unintentional and deliberate blazes that have...
Risk analisys
Proculther project report released
Image of the cover of the PROCUTHER document Key Elements of a European Methodology to Address the Protection of Cultural...
Safeguarding Cultural Heritage from Natural and Man-Made Disasters: an EU analysis
Cover page of the EU document "Safeguarding Cultural Heritage from Natural and Man-Made Disasters - A comparative analysis of risk...
Historic Manila Central Post Office Ravaged by Car Battery Thermal Run-away
Manila Central Post Office after the 21st May 2023 fire - By Photos by K R De Asis, Charlene Santiago,...
A CWA for Historic Areas: CEN 17727 Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation
On September 2022 the CWA 17727 "City Resilience Development - Guide to combine disaster risk management and climate change adaptation...
Air conditioning units destroyed nearly 20 million historic items in Brazil
Fire at the National Museum of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, on 2 September 2018 - Felipe Milanez, CC BY-SA...
The NFPA 909 – 2021 Edition on “Protection of Cultural Resource Properties: Museums, Libraries, and Places of Worship”
The 909 Standard "Protection of Cultural Resource Properties — Museums, Libraries, and Places of Worship" - 2021 Edition has been...
Fire Safety Engineering and Cultural Heritage Buildings
Fire prevention is a discipline that relies in most cases on the use of building elements or standardized solutions. The...
PROMEDHE EU Project – Protecting cultural heritage across borders
Promedhex 2018 Exercise. Assessment team working in the scenario of simulated earthquake damages inside a church. Promedhe has been a...
ICOMOS 2003 Charter on Restoration and Safety of Cultural Heritage. Fire Safety approach aspects to Historical Buildings and Emergency Management?
ICOMOS (the International Council on Monuments and Sites), is a global non-governmental organization associated with UNESCO dedicated to the conservation...
Safety of historical wood structures. A Workshop in Rome
The Church of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami (Rome). The wooden roof collapsed roof on August 30th, 2018. Causes are still...
Securing historic towns damaged by earthquakes: managing the complexity
When an historic center, a town or a district, is hit by an earthquake, managing the securing operations may reach...
Forest Fire Risks to Cultural Heritage
When it comes to assess the risks of fire to Cultural Resources buildings or artefacts, normally they are related to...
The ABC Method: a risk management approach to the preservation of cultural heritage
Cover of the ABC Method document. (Credits: ICCROM website) Risks to cultural heritage vary from catastrophic events (such as earthquakes, ...
Historic Buildings Fire Risk Assessment Tools
Assessing fire risk in historic or heritage buildings is a defying task for every fire safety professional, as well as...
Do Risk Index Methods Fit to Historical Buildings?
Assessing fire risks in historical buildings may be a complex task. Normally, means of egress, structural fire resistance, decorations and...
A small example of fire risk assessment in a heritage building
Developing a fire risk assessment about a cultural heritage building it is not a common task even if, in many...
Risk of closure for Museum due to Lack of Fire Protection
Maryport Maritime Museum is likely to close following the discovery of a fire risk. Allerdale council’s building control team says the...
Cutty Sark Fire: vacuum cleaner blamed
On the morning of 21 May 2007 on the river Thames, in Greenwich (London, UK), the historical ship Cutty Sark, which...
Fire Risk and Restoration works: 6 years of Fire Data in Venice
The problem of restoration-rehabilitation sites fires and their consequent severe damages to the historic-artistic heritage seems to not receive the...
Scottish Historic Buildings national Fire database – Risk evaluation
In an attempt to evaluate and reduce the different level of risk in heritage building, in Scotland, a unique approach...
Water mist for Protection of Heritage – Cost C17 Final report
In the final Report of the Cost c17 Action different aspects of fire protection of Cultural Heritage buildings have been addressed,...
