Fire Threat to Cultural Heritage Stone Buildings
The complex structure of the dome of the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, severely damaged by the fire of 1997...
The complex structure of the dome of the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, severely damaged by the fire of 1997...
The training of the Italian National Fire Brigade (CNVVF) staff has accompanied the evolution of operational needs also in the...
Fire prevention is a discipline that relies in most cases on the use of standardized solutions. The verification of safety...
Historic buildings are by their nature subject to the degradation that time and atmospheric agents entail. To limit the damage...
Heritage managers and caretakers face the challenging task of prioritizing resources to safeguard collections, buildings, monuments, and sites. This involves...
The 2006 report "Manual Fire Extinguishing Equipment for Protection of Heritage", prepared by COWI within the COST C 17 Action...
Promedhe has been a project funded by the General-Directorate of the European Commission for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (DG...
ICOMOS (the International Council on Monuments and Sites), is a global non-governmental organization associated with UNESCO dedicated to the conservation...
In three weeks, between January and February 2019, the STORM Academy 2019 has been held in Rome, within the EU...
The European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR) forms the regional platform structure of Europe of the UNISDR, the U.N. ...
CURE (Culture in City Reconstruction and Recovery) is a position paper published in 2018 by UNESCO and the World Bank...
Expected annual damage to critical infrastructure in European regions, due toclimate change, by the end of the century (million EUR)...
Cover of the ICCROM - Prince Claus Fund handbook "FIRST AID TO CULTURAL HERITAGE IN TIMES OF CRISIS" On October...
The protection of cultural heritage mainly aims to prevent any type of danger from posing an excessive risk to the...
On December 5th, 2017, a large brush fire in California has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and...
Protecting Cultural Heritage form disasters needs different actions, one of the more important of which is to make aware stakeholders...
According to the NFPA 750 (Standard on Water Mist Fire Protection Systems) definition, water mist is a water spray for...
Risks to cultural heritage vary from catastrophic events (such as earthquakes, floods, etc) to gradual processes (such as chemical, physical,...
The project STORM (Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management) has been funded by the Horizon 2020 EU...
On April 6, 2009, the Historic city of L'Aquila, experienced a devastating earthquake, resulting in 309 fatalities, over 1,600 injuries,...
STORM (Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management) is a research and development project initiated by the European...
Cover of the Cost C17 Action Report Final brochure An emerging proposal to initiate an integrated approach to the established...