European Action COST 17 Built Heritage: Fire Loss to Historic Buildings This report, commissioned by the Riksantikvaren, the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage (RNDCH) and Historic Scotland, provides an overview of the fire fighting equipment and techniques available to museum staff in the early stages of a fire.
Six categories of manual extinguishers, three non-extinguishing firefighting techniques and nine small automatic extinguishers for use in museums, galleries or historic buildings have been evaluated in terms of ease of use, extinguishing efficiency, secondary damage, maintenance and cost.
This manual is the first in a series of practical guides for World Heritage. It addresses the specific needs of World Heritage site managers and guides them through the process of managing and planning visits
The development of the MARIS system (Territorial Information System for the "Rischio Charter") to assess the risk of loss of cultural heritage in Italy is addressed.
This paper presents the first research on the impact of climate change on historic buildings, archaeology, parks and gardens.
The research coincided with the publication of the UKCIP02 climate change scenarios and other studies assessing regional climate change and the impact on nature conservation and gardens.
Information kit to promote accession to the Hague Convention (25pp)
Module 3 of the capacity building program for the Caribbean.
This publication is the result of the “Can we learn from the heritage lost in a fire?” project in which Finland, Norway and Sweden consulted about their experiences and knowledge of fires and the fire protection in historic buildings.
This document aims to provide a succinct analysis of the evolution of the notion of risk management, to delimit precisely what specifically is Local Risk Management, and what are the features, facets or parameters that define it as a social process and to take these facets as axes of analysis, offering generic ideas on ways to consider and incorporate them in the promotion of integral local risk management.
World Heritage Reference Manual
This document discusses applying a systematic fire safety evaluation procedure to protect historic properties.