Challenging Building: the search for solutions
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A recently concluded conference looking at issues of environmental control and risks.particularly in the context of adaptive re-use of historic buildings for museum collections.

You can read the articles on-line. Alternatively a PDF version of all the post-prints can be downloaded here (PDF file, 1MB).

The list of papers as follow:

Tim Padfield
"How to design a museum building that protects the collection without destroying itself"
on-line article here

Jane Brunning
"Denbighshire Record Office: an essay in pragmatism"
on-line article here

Jonathan Ashley Smith
"Current thinking on environmental standards"
on-line article here

R.E. Child
"The new Waterfront Museums Swansea: Teething problems and solutions"
on-line article here

Gerallt D. Nash
"Introducing heating into re-erected traditional buildings"
on-line article here

Heather Perry
"Hot Hot Hot in the summer"
on-line article here

Jane Henderson
"Newtown Textile Museum: You will need to wear a woolly?"
on-line article here

[ Thanks to Conservation Dist List for the prior alert. ]
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