Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Stabilizing Heritage Buildings Founded on Reactive Clays - Dealing with Conflicting Requirements
- In
- Sixth National Conference on Engineering Heritage, 1992, Hobart 5-7 October 1992: Preprints of Papers
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Australia, Tasmania Division, Hobart, Tasmania, 1992, pp. 89-96
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0858255677
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.424719354072576
- Abstract
The measures required for stabilizing heritage buildings founded on reactive clays often appear to create conflict among the disciplines of engineering, architecture and landscape design engaged in the conservation process. The causes of damage and the means of stabilizing or partly stabilizing the foundations are discussed, together with their parallel architectural and landscaping requirements. The authors have been associated with the conservation of many buildings in the Hunter Region and have developed techniques which may be applicable to other parts of Australia and elsewhere. Of particular note is the recommendation on choice of suitable plant species for areas near buildings which could be seen as contrary to recent practice and fashion. Recommendations are given for structural and architectural treatments together with choice of suitable plant species for planting (or not planting) near sensitive buildings.
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- Sixth National Conference on Engineering Heritage, 1992, Hobart 5-7 October 1992: Preprints of Papers (Hobart, Tasmania: Institution of Engineers, Australia, Tasmania Division, 1992), 140 pp. https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0858255677. Details