In partnership with the University of Florida Preservation Institute: Nantucket, NCPTT will offer a one-week workshop on masonry conservation and traditional lime mortars in Nantucket, Massachusetts, August 1-7, 2010. Participants will work with skilled and experienced masons to undertake the repair of an early-nineteenth-century structure associated with Nantucket’s famed whaling industry. The hands-on workshop will [...]
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As a call to address the threats and opportunities of living with water, the workshop Building Resilience: Implementing Innovative, Sustainable Flood Mitigation Solutions for the Gulf Coast will gather diverse experts, including keynote speaker Gen. Russel Honoré, in New Orleans February 26 & 27 at the Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Avenue. Local and global [...]
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Technology & Conservation, MIT Department of Architecture–Building Technology Program, and the Historic Resources Committee of the Boston Society of Architects/AIA are hosting a symposium/training program that will examine “the basic material properties of glass, the role of thermal, mechanical, structural, and chemical properties on
performance and durability, and the effects of environmental conditions on both traditional
buildings [...]
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Three-Dimensional Laser Scanning Training
NCPTT staff members recently received three days of in-house training on the organization’s new Konica-Minolta Vivid-9i laser scanning camera. NCPTT is exploring a variety of preservation applications for the new equipment, including the creation of virtual collections, accurate [...]
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 [...]
Read more →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. [...]
Today we join the historic landscape preservation maintenance curriculum roundtable discussion hosted by NCPTT and the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation. Attendees gathered to discuss and identify common needs and interests around historic landscape maintenance and to provide recommendations for creating a training curriculum.
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Read more →A live webcast of the Nationwide Cemetery Preservation Summit was streamed on October 19. 2009.
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NCPTT recently partnered with the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation to host a roundtable to discuss creation of a historic landscape preservation maintenance curriculum. Held at the Hampton National Historic Site in Towson, Md., the meeting focused on identifying unmet training needs in the field of historic landscape preservation maintenance.
Lively discussion among the 15 invited [...]
Cultural Heritage Imaging developed a comprehensive training program for 3D digital rock art documentation and preservation, based on state-of-the-art computational photography techniques that are emerging as the next generation of cultural heritage tools for use both in the field and in museums.
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