The Association for Preservation Technology, through the sponsorship of NCPTT, will offer a “hands-on” workshop entitled, An Interdisciplinary Approach To Preserving Wood in Historic Structures, at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin home studio (May 23-25 in Spring Green, Wisconsin).
The workshop will address:
Interdisciplinary Teams and Preservation Philosophy
Wood as a Building Material – Beyond the Basics
Documentation
Assessment / Diagnostics [...]
LEED has become an industry standard for demonstrating the “sustainability” of new construction and rehabilitation projects. While LEED is not the only rating system for buildings at this time it is the most widely used in the United States. The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training is offering this LEED preparation workshop to promote the joint consideration of sustainability and historic [...]
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Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan, will present a three-day workshop on March 8- 10, 2010 to introduce restoration processes of historic metals using electric arc welding, heat straightening, and hot riveting processes. This workshop was funded in part through the PTT Grants program.
Registration cost for one day is $125 or attend all three days for $325. [...]
NCPTT has internships available in the fields of historic architecture, materials conservation, and historic landscapes. Positions include 10-week historic architecture and materials conservation summer internships and a 6-month historic landscapes internship.
Read more →In this edition of the Preservation Technology Podcast we join NCPTT’s Jessica Cleaver as she speaks with Tracy Nelson, director of the Historic Building Recovery Grant Program, about sustainability and historic preservation.
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For the past several years, NCPTT’s Architecture and Engineering program has been working to understand the potential impact of climate change on cultural resources and conversely, the impact of cultural resources on climate change. Working with a variety of partners, the National Center has promoted historic preservation as an important component of sustainable development. Conservation of our existing built environment includes reusing historic and older buildings, improving their energy and environmental performance, and reinvesting in older and historic communities.
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Today The Preservation Technology Podcast joins NCPTT’s Andy Ferrell, as he speaks with Tom Jones, an urban conservator for the West Ward Urban Ecology Project in eastern Pennsylvania. They will discuss the West Ward Ecology Project and something called the Green Design Laboratory.
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Read more →Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan, is presenting a three-day workshop on March 8, 9 and 10, 2010, to introduce a wide variety of interested personnel, including State Historic Preservation officers, Department of Transportation officials, engineers, engineering students, general contractors, and historic bridge preservationists, to restoration processes of historic metals using electric arc welding, heat straightening, and hot riveting processes. Funded in part by a grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.
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This summer, NCPTT, the Tulane School of Architecture, the Preservation Trades Network, and Save Our Cemeteries hosted training on treatments for above ground cemeteries damaged during Hurricane Katrina.
Topics included masonry applications, preservation technology, limewash, appropriate treatments for tombs, and a history of the cemeteries of New Orleans. This video was produced by Tulane University.
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