E-P Heritage Value Assessment Method Proposed Methodology for Assessing Heritage Value of Load-Bearing Structures

Gathering knowledge and data for diagnosis is highly important for the safeguarding and conservation of architectural heritage. These data should be organised in order to create a complex list of procedures to find sufficiently sensitive, effective and reasonably inexpensive technical processes to survey and to repair, renew and maintain load-bearing structures of potential heritage values.(1) The research is based on an analysis of the concept heritage value(2). As a typical multidisciplinary field of research, practical tasks in heritage preservation show that heritage value should be understood as a complex value composed of varied elementary segments coming from different fields of human activities. Whereas each field has its own logical verifying rules and its own research methodology, each elementary segment is evaluated separately. The present article introduces the E-P Heritage value assessment method (E-P method) as a methodology for assessing the heritage values of buildings and structures or of their parts. The second purpose is to find a sufficiently sensitive process how to avoid invasive diagnostics on the architectural heritage. The procedure is aimed to be applied both on protected and non-protected buildings and structures.

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The article emphasizes the importance of gathering knowledge and data for diagnosis in order to safeguard and conserve architectural heritage. It introduces the E-P Heritage value assessment method as a methodology for assessing the heritage values of buildings and structures. The goal is to find a sensitive process to avoid invasive diagnostics on architectural heritage, applicable to both protected and non-protected buildings and structures.