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Monumentenwacht Vlaanderen
MAKSin, a recording system for conservation assessments
Risk- and value-based priorty ranking in historic interiors
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Veerle Meul, advisor historic interiors
Inauguration Unesco Chair on Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and SitesRaymond Lemaire International Center for Conservation, University of LouvainLouvain, Belgium, 24-25 March 2009
Conservation assessments of the historic interior
Condition survey
Currently
Visual survey, ‘quickscan’: material state and damage
Baseline (reference) report (benchmark)
Record of the extent and condition of an interior, damage
Preventive conservation assessment
Identification and assessment of agents of deterioration
10 agents of deterioration(CCI-ICC, Waller and ICCROM):
Fire Water Wrong relative humidity Wrong temperature Physical forces Light and radiation Pests Contaminants Dissociation/neglect Vandals and thieves
Problem
The report
Conservation assessment report:
Aim: document to support local conservation management planning
Recommendations with long list of activities Advice for housekeeping and cyclic maintenance planning,
mostly standard good-practice advices List of strategies to avoid, to detect, to block, or to mitigate
the effects of possible harmful agents Long list of remedial conservation activities, only those to be
done by specialists are ranked in order of urgency (ambiguous judgment by assessor)
Problem
Complexity
Selecting conservation priorities
What to do first?
Problem: methodology
Current state versus future loss
20092006
Problem
Current state versus future loss
2 months later…
Toolbox approach
Integrated methodologies
StatePast damage
On-goingDamage
ExposureSource
Environmental monitoring
ConsequenceAttackExposureCause
Damage assessment
Risk assessment Dosimetry & EWS Condition assessment
2007-2009: Project MAKSin
Tool: recording system
MAKSin Monumentenwacht
Decision-making matrix with 4 parameters:
RISK-based (principles ‘Cultural Heritage Risk Assessment’, as developed by ICCROM, CCI-ICC, CMN,
ICN)
A. Speed of continual decay processes; the frequency of incidents; probability of disasters
B. Effect of consequential damage of defects (condition survey) OR of future damage by the agents of deterioration (risk assessment)
C. Health and safety indicator
VALUE-based
D. Relative importance of the parts affected
Priority ranking
Decision-making matrix
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