Last updated 29 April 2004
New additions since April 2004 marked with [NEW]
Building Research Establishment
From the site: "BRE is the UK's leading centre
of expertise on buildings, construction, energy, environment, fire and risk. We provide research-based consultancy, testing and certification services to customers world-wide. Our services are founded on but not restricted to the built environment."
[http://www.bre.co.uk]
Scottish Lime Centre Trust [NEW]
From the site: "The Scottish Lime Centre provides specialist advice and training in the use of lime-based materials for the conservation and repair of Scotland's traditional buildings. Through the TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS CONSULTANCY SERVICE, a specialist on-site consultancy and a materials analysis service, the Scottish Lime Centre investigates and advises on problems and repairs for traditional masonry buildings. Charlestown Workshops also acts as distributor for a range of environmentally conscious building, finishing and decorating materials."
[http://www.scotlime.org]
British Geological Survey [NEW]
From the site: "The mission of the British Geological Survey is to:
♦ Advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by systematic surveying, long-term monitoring, effective data management and high-quality applied research.
♦ Provide comprehensive, objective, impartial and up-to-date geoscientific information, advice and services, to the client and user community in the United Kingdom and overseas, enabling safe,sustainable and efficient choices to be made in managing the environment and utilising its resources, thereby contributing to national economic competitiveness, the effectiveness of public policy and the quality of life.
♦ Disseminate information in the community, and promote the public understanding of science, to demonstrate the importance of geoscience to resource and environmental issues."
[http://www.bgs.ac.uk]
Advanced Concrete & Masonry Centre [NEW]
From the site: "The Advanced Concrete and Masonry Centre is a specialist research and consultancy body attached to the Faculty of Communications, Engineering and Science at the University of Paisley. Our interdisciplinary team of engineers and material scientists are supported by facilities of international standing. Research strengths include Self Compacting Concrete, underwater concrete, nanotechnology in building materials, lime based binders for masonry construction and factors that affect the weathering and durability of natural building stones."
[http://www-civeng.paisley.ac.uk/acm/]
RILEM
The International Union of Testing and Research Laboratories for Materials and Structures.
[http://web.ens-cachan.fr:80/~rilem/]
Sciences & Patrimoine Culturel
From the site: "Ce site est consacré aux méthodes et techniques de conservation - restauration du patrimoine culturel."
[http://www.culture.fr/culture/conservation/fr/index.htm]
Laboratoire du Recherche des Monuments Historique [NEW]
From the site: "Sa mission principale est d'apporter une aide aux maîtres d'œuvre des restaurations (architectes en chef et conservateurs des monuments historiques, architectes des bâtiments de France, conservateurs des antiquités et objets d'art), aux responsables des monuments et des objets (conservateurs régionaux des monuments historiques), comme aux restaurateurs, afin qu'ils puissent, dans les meilleures conditions:
»établir un bon constat d'état et un diagnostic des altérations observées;
»proposer les meilleurs remèdes;
»définir les conditions de conservation les plus appropriées, afin de prévenir de futures altérations;
»amélior er la connaissance de l'œuvre dans sa composition, ses techniques, son histoire."
[http://www.lrmh.culture.fr/]
Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education
From the site: "It is the purpose of the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education to increase and disseminate scientific knowledge that contributes to improved preservation and conservation of museum collections and related materials and to the enhancement of their contextual interpretation."
[http://www.si.edu/scmre/]
Conservation Technologies, Liverpool, UK [NEW]
From the site: "At Conservation Technologies, we combine the latest in laser cleaning and scanning technology with traditional conservation skills to provide a range of conservation, 3D recording, replication and training services."
[http://www.conservationcentre.org.uk/technologies/]
Integrated Conservation Resources-Integrated Conservation Contracting
From the site: "Integrated Conservation Resources, Inc. ... is a group of architectural conservators, materials scientists and preservation specialists who have designed hundreds of restoration projects in the United States and abroad. Originally based in metropolitan New York, ICR has recently expanded to New England to address that area's growing demand for its services and to better service its New England projects. Together with its sister company, Integrated Conservation Contracting, Inc. (ICC), the firms form a unique team providing conservation consulting and contracting services."
[http://www.icr-icc.com/index.shtml]
Conservation Department,
The National Museum of Denmark
From the site: "The Conservation Department has about 80 conservators and a small support and administrative staff. Most of the workshops are in an old factory in Brede, a northern suburb of Copenhagen."
[http://www.natmus.min.dk/cons/index.htm]
Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague
From the site: "The Dept. of Chemical Technology of Monument Conservation is engaged in studying chemical problems associated with caring for cultural historical monuments: studies of causes of damage in monuments, development and application of methods and means for preservation of organic materials (wood, paper, parchment, etc.), inorganic materials (stone, plaster, wall paintings, ceramics, etc.), studies and application of methods and means for restoration of historical buildings (facade painting, preserving plasters, etc.) and application of analytical methods in research into historical objects."
[http://staff.vscht.cz/rud/home-e.html]
Conservation Research Laboratory
Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A&M University
From the site: "The Conservation Research Laboratory (CRL)..... is one of the oldest, continuously operated conservation laboratories that deals primarily with archaeological material from shipwrecks and other underwater sites. CRL deals with archaeological projects year-round and consists of two laboratories: one is used primarily to teach conservation classes to students at TAMU; it is also equipped to conduct conservation of small inorganic and organic artefacts. The second laboratory has recently been enlarged to accommodate bigger projects. In 1995, we established the Archaeological Preservation Research Laboratory, which is devoted to developing new conservation technologies."
[http://nautarch.tamu.edu/napcrl.htm]
Maritime Archaeological Conservation
Conservation Department of the Western Australian Maritime Museum
From the site: "The Conservation Department of the Western Australian Museum is based at the Maritime Museum in Fremantle where twelve staff care for the collections. Because of the close collaboration between maritime archaeologists and conservators it has been possible to develop many new methods of stabilising shipwreck materials. By diving on the wrecks and taking their laboratory instruments with them, the conservators are able to study the end results of long-term corrosion and degradation processes before the sites are disturbed."
[http://www.mm.wa.gov.au/Museum/cons/cons.html]
Centre de Conservation du Québec
From the site: "In the spring of 1979 the Québec government created a provincial institution, the Centre de conservation du Québec, to ensure the conservation of Québec's cultural heritage. Since its creation, the Centre has continued to develop, expanding its fields of expertise and acquiring the resources that have helped to make it a centre of recognized excellence. Seven workshops - paintings, sculpture, paper, furniture, textiles, metal, and archaeology/ethnology - have been designed in accordance with the highest standards, and feature state-of-the-art equipment."
[http://www.ccq.mcc.gouv.qc.ca/anglais/aindex.htm]
Expert Centre for Cultural Heritage Conservation [NEW]
From the site: "Das Expert-Center für Denkmalpflege ist eine interdisziplinäre Beratungs- und Forschungsstelle für naturwissenschaftliche und technologische Fragen der Konservierung von Baudenkmälern und ihrer Ausstattung."
[http://www.expert-center.ch/de/index.html]
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