Consolidation is a conservation treatment with good potential to be applied to ancient renders, provided that the alterations in the properties of the original mortars re [...]

In the domain of heritage buildings conservation, interventions must be designed, whenever possible, to maintain existing materials instead of their replacement by new on [...]

The application of the drilling test on the characterisation of homogeneous stones is widely used, mainly on carbonate stones that are softer. The drilling revolution and [...]