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Civil infrastructure around the world is in a state of utter disrepair and significant efforts are needed on the part of all stakeholders to render our failing infrastruc [...]
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The consolidation process of old renders with loss of cohesion is nowadays performed usually with inorganic compatible products, such as calcium or barium hydroxide or et [...]
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An important operation for the conservation of historical renders is the cohesion restitution of the binderaggregate system, based on the use of materials with consolidat [...]
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Investigations of renders on buildings of the temple Wat Mahathat in Ayutthaya showed that two different types of mortars have been applied. The original mortars from the [...]
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Sophisticated analysing proceedings have been used in the past to assess the composition of hardened mortars. Chemical and mechanical tests combined with microscopic inve [...]
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Roman cement was extensively used to decorate facades during the nineteenth and beginning of twentieth Century. The interest of this material has been revisited recently [...]
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Jordan, B.
For the first 150 years of European settlement in Australia, masonry buildings were constructed largely using the techniques brought from Europe (particularly Great Brita [...]
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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 [...]
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Natural cement was patented in 1796 but it didn’t arrive in Spain until 1835. No one knows exactly where the production started in Spain, because it emerged independent [...]
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Natural cement was patented in 1796 but it didn’t arrive in Spain until 1835. No one knows exactly where the production started in Spain, because it emerged independent [...]
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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, [...]
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Maronilla-Reyes, M. B.
The restoration of the Calaca Church in Batangas province, Philippines, is an ideal example of a successful result of collaborative work among architects, engineers, a st [...]
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This article presents the restoration process performed within the Church of Santíssimo Sacramento (Blessed Sacrament) in Lisbon, namely covering the repair of damaged r [...]
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The effective design of a mortar for repairing masonry depends on a clear understanding of its function within masonry. The functions of mortar materials in masonry are c [...]
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In climates with high thermal variation, energy savings can be achieved by the use of thermal inertia. However, in the cases in which the façade’s available thickness [...]
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Renders and plasters have been continuously used for covering the masonry walls of dwellings even from the Neolithic period. This paper focuses on the analysis and charac [...]
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Whelan, D.
Mpophomeni is an apartheid-era African ‘township’ situated on an old Dutch immigrant farm outside Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, South Africa. It is laid out i [...]
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Matos, V. P.
For centuries the city territorial management defined legal, economic and aesthetical rules that determined the internal and external images of the building to let. The 2 [...]
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After cleaning, four 19th century cast busts of illustrious men decorating a Parisian façade revealed severe deterioration. A network of large cracks 0.5 cm wide gave th [...]
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Veiga, R.
In an intervention on historic renders and plasters, the first step is to decide upon the strategy: repair or substitution, based on an evaluation of the cultural value o [...]
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This study rises from the perplexity about the adoption of standardized methods for the evaluation of mortar behaviour towards water. Standards are often not very specifi [...]
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The aim of this work was to try to answer the basic question: are the different looking renders surface aspects related to differences in the behaviour of the render laye [...]
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In the nineteenth century, Marseille was already an established industrial town and had a significant urban development. Its business provided it with a large amount of r [...]
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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 [...]
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Lime–based mortars of adequate workability are used for repairing coating mortars on old masonry in historical buildings. The analysis of a great number of old plasters [...]
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This article focuses on repair or replacement of mortars for historic buildings. With practical situations in mind, both the decision process and questions arising are de [...]
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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 [...]
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Zacharopoulou, G.
Structures embedding historical, artistic and scientific values and built after 1830 (the date of the establishment of the Modern Greek state) are defined as modern monum [...]
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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 [...]
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Loss of adhesion is one of the main forms of degradation of old renders; it can cause the separation of different render layers or the separation of the render and substr [...]
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Vanhellemont, Y.
The need for compatible mortars does not only apply to old historic masonry, but equally to more recent buildings. The COOVI/CERIA complex in Anderlecht (Brussels region) [...]
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Applications of repair mortar mean that an additional heterogeneity is introduced to the system. Because of this the utilisation of identical material is a main objective [...]
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A Walloon entrepreneur developed and patented Cimorné cement render at the beginning of the 1930s in Braine-l’Alleud (south of Brussels, Belgium). This peculiar façad [...]
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A Walloon entrepreneur developed and patented Cimorné cement render at the beginning of the 1930s in Braine-l’Alleud (south of Brussels, Belgium). This peculiar façad [...]
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The Portuguese architectonic heritage is mostly composed of old buildings needing intervention, especially on exterior renders, plasters and finishes. Preventive and cons [...]
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Roman cements were key materials for the economic and easy manufacture of render (stucco) for the exterior of buildings during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. [...]
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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 [...]
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Natural or Roman cements were the first modern cements to be industrially produced at the beginning of the 19th century in Europe. Used equally by engineers for their hyd [...]
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The present work focuses on gypsum mortar manufactured in traditional kilns and used historically as exterior rendering. A documentation survey has been carried out follo [...]
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Lime renders can help improve the energy balance of the building itself given their position in the external layer. Indeed, historical masonries have high rates of therma [...]
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Oscarshall was built between 1847 and 1853. It was the first Norwegian building to utilise Portland cement as a rendering material. The building had problems from its inc [...]
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