Javeria Shaikh

Building Repair and Diagnosis Systems in Europe: European Building Preservation Policies Javeria Shaikh

In this book, the author has compiled, the conservation projects, she conducted, while her studies for Erasmus Mundus (world's student exchange) Masters program, where all the three semesters, were carried out at three different countries in Europe i.e. Italy, Spain and Poland. Hence the book is divided into three different portions; first portion consists of the project in Italy, Repair of a bay of South facade Villa Zerbi Reggio Calabria. Whereas second portion consists of documentation for the Torre para Plaza de España, (Tower of Spanish plaza). In the third portion there is, a complete historical analysis of the town of Lublin, furthermore, there is documentation for a historic building in this old town of Lublin. Hence this book is a representative all the different software's and techniques used in different part of Europe for conservation. This entire process was extremely challenging, since the author, had to learn three new languages, besides English, more over the conservation strategies varied immensely, due to climate variation.