Monitoring and Maintenance of Archaeological Sites: the Conference Proceedings
Historic buildings are by their nature subject to the degradation that time and atmospheric agents entail. To limit the damage...
Nantes Gothic Cathedral Damaged by Fire
On July 18th, 2020, a devastating fire engulfed the St Peter and St Paul Gothic Cathedral in Nantes, a medieval...
Risk Management in Cultural Heritage Preservation: A Comprehensive Approach
Heritage managers and caretakers face the challenging task of prioritizing resources to safeguard collections, buildings, monuments, and sites. This involves...
Firefighting Equipment for Museum: a 2006 Report
The 2006 report "Manual Fire Extinguishing Equipment for Protection of Heritage", prepared by COWI within the COST C 17 Action...
Notre Dame Fire: What we Know About
On Novembre 29th, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron thanked the 1,200 people, including workers, entrepreneurs, architects, members of...
Helping First Responders Limit Damage to Buildings: a Handbook
Earthquakes pose a big threat to cultural and heritage buildings. Normally, historic buildings are more vulnerable to seismic actions than...
How Protect Cultural Heritage across Borders? a Project on Emergencies
Promedhe has been a project funded by the General-Directorate of the European Commission for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (DG...
Protecting Monuments: a Charter on Restoration and Safety
ICOMOS (the International Council on Monuments and Sites), is a global non-governmental organization associated with UNESCO dedicated to the conservation...
Fire Safety of Historical Wood: a Workshop in Rome
On August 30th, 2018. The wooden chest of drawers, with sculptural paintings of the Nativity and Saints Peter and Paul,...
Climate Change and Museums: a Book About Indoor Risks
Climate change, presumably, will affect the way buildings will be designed and managed. Also museums are challenged by such risk...
A EU Funded Course on Cultural Heritage Protection and Climate Change
In three weeks, between January and February 2019, the STORM Academy 2019 has been held in Rome, within the EU...
European Forum for Distaster Risk Reduction on Cultural Heritage Resilience
The European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR) forms the regional platform structure of Europe of the UNISDR, the U.N. ...
UNESCO and World Bank on Cultural Heritage and Reconstruction
CURE (Culture in City Reconstruction and Recovery) is a position paper published in 2018 by UNESCO and the World Bank...
Europe Is Ready for Climate Impact. What about Cultural Heritage protection?
Expected annual damage to critical infrastructure in European regions, due toclimate change, by the end of the century (million EUR)...
A Toolkit for Cultural Heritage by War Risks
Cover of the ICCROM - Prince Claus Fund handbook "FIRST AID TO CULTURAL HERITAGE IN TIMES OF CRISIS" On October...
Second Fire Almost Destroys the Glasgow School of Art
A ferocious fire has devastated - probably destroying the 50 percent irreparably - the School of Art, a masterpiece by...
3D Scan of St. Francis Basilica to Improve Emergency Management
One of the main problems of emergency management in case of damage reported by historic buildings after an earthquake is...
Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections: an ICCROM-UNESCO Handbook
The protection of cultural heritage mainly aims to prevent any type of danger from posing an excessive risk to the...
Vegetation Fires and Cultural Heritage: the Getty Museum Case
On December 5th, 2017, a large brush fire in California has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and...
A Pioneering Fire Protection System: Saint Paul Outside the Walls
In the night of July 15th, 1823, a fire destroyed a large part of the Papal Basilica of St. Paul...
Complexity of Rescue in Historic Towns Operations after Earthquakes
A scene after seismic events of a USAR operation in a historic town in Italy (credits: National Fire Service -...
First Aid to Cultural Heritage in the STORM Summer School
Protecting Cultural Heritage form disasters needs different actions, one of the more important of which is to make aware stakeholders...
