This exploratory paper examines the ways in which perceived authentic historical narratives are utilised in the construction of heritage destinations in an era of sustain [...]

The state of Oaxaca, located in southern Mexico, has an ancestral earth traditional construction, derived from the fusion of Pre-Hispanic civilizations with the Spanish t [...]

This paper investigates the deterioration of cementitious renders, with reference to the buildings on a World War II Airfield, now the Museum of Flight, in East Lothian, [...]

Earth constructions are susceptible to degradation due to natural or human causes. The degradation of the exterior surface of earth walls is very common, either due to la [...]

In mining regions a great hazard for masonry and concrete residential buildings are semiseismic earth tremors, which potential energy could achieved 1010 [J]. Only non-cr [...]

The list of different ways to combine brittle materials like stone and earth in order to build composite constructions is manifold. Because of their stability and in orde [...]

Scotland has a long tradition of earth building, with clay-rich subsoils and turf having been employed for millennia in the walls, floors and roofs of structures across t [...]