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    Preventive and planned conservation as a new management approach for built heritage: from a physical health check to empowering communities and activating (lost) traditions for local sustainable development
    (2018) Vandesande, Aziliz; Balen, Koenraad Van; Della Torre, Stefano; Cardoso Martinez, Fausto Adrian
    The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the assets of a preventive conservation approach for historical timber roof structures, as a means to improve the quality and durability of maintenance and repair interventions.
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    Sistema de registro de daños para determinar el estado constructivo en muros de adobe
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2013-12) Achig Balarezo, María Cecilia; Zúñiga López, Marcelo; Balen, Koenraad Van; Abad Rodas, María de Lourdes; Universidad de Cuenca; DIUC; Dirección de Investigación de la Universidad de Cuenca
    Adobe walls are common construction elements in the heritage buildings in the historic center of the City of Cuenca. Most of these buildings were constructed in the Republican period, especially in the period 1860-1940. Threats from natural and human origin resulted over time in a degradation of the heritage buildings. An important guide for the conservation is having a clear and accurate picture of the degraded status and condition of the adobe walls. To this end a damage registration system characterizing the current constructive state of the adobe walls in the City of Cuenca was developed. Surveys of the condition of adobe walls resulted in the derivation of measurable indicators and their respective variables, describing in a qualitative and quantitative way the constructive condition of the walls. A matrix based system for the prioritization and weighing of the variables was developed. Applying multivariate analysis resulted in the derivation of a global status indicator of the adobe wall. This indicator not only reflects the urgency of intervention, but also the type of constructional intervention or monitoring action required for the conservation of the wall.