Rajasthan (NW India) and especially the Shekhawati region (NE Rajasthan), has a tradition of external and interior wall paintings decorating historical buildings. Despite [...]

This paper deals with the historic use of earth mortars in masonry construction and the appropriate conservation and repair of buildings in which these were common. It ex [...]

From the mid-18th century extensive research in Sweden and in present day Finland was focused on the development of mortars with hydraulic and pozzolanic properties. The [...]

Starting in the late 18th century, the age of industrialisation brought about a huge number of new technologies, amongst which novel binder systems of hydraulic nature we [...]