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

by Vasco Peixoto Freitas, João M.P.Q. Delgado, Ana Sofia Guimaraes

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319191136
• ISBN13: 9783319191133
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"