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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NCPTT, in cooperation with the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, will host a round table discussion to consider the creation of an historic landscape maintenance certification program.
Discussion topics will include defining target audiences, training subjects, and training formats. The day and a half-long meeting will be held at Hampton National Historic Site, Towson, Maryland, Sept. 1-2, 2009.
For more information, contact Debbie Smith.
Read more →NCPTT’s Andrew Ferrell and Kirk Cordell became LEED Accredited Professionals after recently passing the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) exam.
This improves NCPTT’s capacity to shepherd NPS preservation projects through the LEED certification process, and to help NPS architects, facility managers and other cultural resource personnel to become LEED accredited professionals.
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Planetizen is offering a webinar on preservation and sustainability tomorrow, July 30, 2009, at 11:00AM PDT/2PM EDT. This $49.95 course defines sustainable development as keeping what is “valuable by meeting our needs without prejudicing the ability of future generations to meet other own needs.”
This course shows how sustainability and historic preservation work hand-in-hand to meet the goals of both.
The instructor, Hector Abreu Cintron, is well known in the preservation community as a cultural resources management expert.
Read more →NCPTT’s Andrew Ferrell and Kirk Cordell served as guest instructors for the University of Florida’s Preservation Institute: Nantucket. They lectured on the role NCPTT plays in facilitating research and training in innovative technologies for historic preservation.
Particular topics included NCPTT’s grants program, sustainable preservation, preservation trades training, and disaster response and planning for cultural resources.
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One of the biggest barriers to the rapid spread of cutting edge, innovative technologies in archeology is cost. Let’s face it: things that end in “-ometer” or “-oscopy” tend to be pricey. And if they are really new, or if their utility in some contexts has yet to be proven, the price remains in the stratosphere [...]
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David Morgan, Chief of Archeology and Collections at the National Park Service National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, talks about the annual geophysics workshop course that we call Prospection in Depth
Limited seating is still available for this five day course at the Presidio in San Francisco from August 4-8, 2009. The tuition of $499 includes lodging in a historic barracks facility at the heart of the Presidio.
Read more →David W. Morgan, Chief of Archeology and Collections at NCPTT, introduces the 19th annual National Park Service Geophysics course taught by Steve De Vore. This video includes a description of the course and commentary by participants. Steve has assembled about 10 different instructors and about 18-20 participants that are providing classroom opportunities at NCPTT and are using Los Adaes as a field-training site.
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The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) in partnership with Save Our Cemeteries, Inc. (SOC) will be holding a Limewash Workshop on June 13, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Improper cemetery maintenance can jeopardize the landscape’s historic character and irreversibly damage historic features. Join us for a 2-day workshop in Brookline, Massachusetts to learn the basics of cemetery landscape preservation.
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