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Practical Building Conservation was one of the earliest projects of the Research and Technical Advisory Service of English Heritage. Tasked with providing government and wider sector support for the conservation of the historic built environment, team leader John Ashurst decided that the most effect...

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Published inBuilding Surveying Journal p. 33
Main Author Pender, Robyn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors 01.05.2015
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Summary:Practical Building Conservation was one of the earliest projects of the Research and Technical Advisory Service of English Heritage. Tasked with providing government and wider sector support for the conservation of the historic built environment, team leader John Ashurst decided that the most effective approach would be to rework the field notes from his conservation team in the Ministry of Works into a series of technical guides. Conservation Basics, Concrete and Roofing followed in 2013, with Building environment published in September 2014. The last of 10 volumes, Earth, brick and terracotta, will finally be published in July this year, by which time the technical side of English Heritage will have become Historic England. The first thing to note is that the books do not prioritise treatment: intervention choices must always be case-specific, and so to print anything resembling a specification would be dangerous.
ISSN:1750-1032
1759-3387