Salt damage is one of the major causes of render decay, not only near the sea but also in continental areas. These salts can appear in the walls from different sources: f [...]

In building conservation practice, there is some difficulty in formulating compatible mortars for use in renders and joints, due to requisites of low elastic modulus, suf [...]

The use of glazed tiles on external façades became popular in Portugal in the 19th Century in a trend that was shared with Brazil. Nowadays the use of this material in e [...]

The use of glazed tiles in façades is typical of urban 19th Century Portuguese architecture and an identity marc that has been the subject of studies and thesis denoting [...]

Teatro Nacional de S. João (TNSJ) is the main theatre in the city of Porto, located in the city centre and built in 1918. TNSJ was designed by the well-known architect M [...]

In the centre and south of Portugal construction of buildings with earth was frequent until the mid-20th Century. Rammed earth was the most common type of construction in [...]

The treatment of rising damp in historic building walls is very complex due to the thickness and heterogeneity of the walls. Some techniques, such as watertight barriers, [...]

The need to formulate mortar compositions with adequate durability and compatibility is nowadays one of the major challenges in historical buildings repair. The incorpora [...]

Glazed ceramic tiled façades are a cultural, architectural and social heritage that has to be protected in order to continue to have these history marks of our ancestors [...]