E-P Heritage Value Assessment Method Proposed Methodology for Assessing Heritage Value of Load-Bearing Structures: Fid-Bau Portal

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

Eberhardt, Sophie / Pospisil, Martin

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 ¹

Evaluation per Partes or Evaluation by Parts method developed by Eberhardt and Pospisil for assessing sensitivity of heritage valuable buildings and structures to invasiveness of diagnostics and repair methods.

The research is based on an analysis of the concept “heritage value”² ²

Grant of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic NAKI DG18P02OVV033. The NAKI program’s vision is to achieve the maintenance and sustainable development of a specific national and cultural identity and integrity and cultural heritage in the context of European and world culture in the 21^st century and in the conditions of expected global change through applied research and development. (see: Program na podporu aplikovaneho vyzkumu a experimentalniho vyvoje narodni a kulturni identity na leta 2016 až 2022, NAKI II, p. 6, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Prague 2013).

. 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.