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Hygrothermal Risk on Building Heritage : A Methodology for a Risk Map

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This book presents a critical review of a criterion of risk, created to assess the flood risk to heritage buildings, and evaluates this criterion by applying it to the sample Portuguese heritage buildings. In a first approach, the total number of potential parameters is effectively reduced and the selected criteria are divided into two different groups: the monument’s location in relation to a waterway, and the behaviour of its construction material in contact with water.

Above all, the book discusses the importance of architectural heritage and argues for the need to safeguard it from extreme climatic phenomena such as floods. As such, the book vividly reminds the scientific community that the intensification of the global warming and climate change will worsen throughout the 21st century, and that it is therefore necessary to adopt preventive measures to minimize, mitigate and control these adverse effects if we hope to avoid catastrophic consequences.

At the same time, the book takes into account a broad range of scientific and engineering disciplines, such as civil engineering and architecture, offering a synthesis of the current state of knowledge to benefit and guide experts and practitioners in related fields.

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Call Number

691 HYG

Publisher

: ., 2015

Collation

XII, 60

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-319-19113-3

Classification

691

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

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Subject(s)

Building Materials

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Statement of Responsibility

João M.P.Q. Delgado , Ana Sofia Guimarães , Vasco Peixoto Freitas editor

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Khusnun

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