Print Email Facebook Twitter The Perception of Small Scale Damage and Repairs of Natural Stone Title The Perception of Small Scale Damage and Repairs of Natural Stone Author Quist, W. Van Hees, R. Naldin, S. Nijland, T. Faculty Architecture Department Building Conservation Date 2008-05-14 Abstract By means of a questionnaire a study was carried out to investigate the perception of small scale damage and repairs of natural stone used in buildings. Participants were asked to evaluate damage to natural stone shown on pictures. They were also asked to give their opinion on interventions needed to preserve or restore the material. Significant differences can be found between specialists and non-specialists in conservation. Respondents consider some cases as “damage” situations, even though no intervention is deemed as necessary, as if damage was a sort of natural weathering, thus to be expected and accepted. In other cases, also defined as “‘damage” situations, interventions are considered necessary. This seems to imply the use of a different criterion to define “damage”, maybe including the expected risks related to its development. This study contributes to the definition of damage, and to a better understanding of the criteria used by different people to decide on the need of interventions. Subject PerceptionConservationDamageNatural StoneIntervention To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b530581c-df24-47a5-84dc-7f5382d72908 Publisher Istanbul Technical University ISBN 978-975-561-325-3 Source Eleventh International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components, Istanbul, Turkey, 11-14 May 2008 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2008 Quist, W.; Van Hees, R.; Naldin, S.; Nijland, T. Files PDF quist.pdf 508.3 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b530581c-df24-47a5-84dc-7f5382d72908/datastream/OBJ/view