PRESERVING BRICK AND TERRA COTTA
An intensive workshop with Martin Weaver March 16, offered through the
University of Victoria's Cultural Resource Management Program

The brick and terra cotta materials found in both modest and monumental
structures are subject to the ravages of time, climate, inherent vice,
pollution, and seismic activity. This intensive workshop develops your
ability to manage the preservation and conservation of these historic
materials with special emphasis on:
* characteristics of brick and terra cotta
* structural characteristics of historic masonry buildings
* environmental impacts and inherent vice
* seismic impacts
* recent advances in stabilization, preservation, and treatment requirements


Instructor: Martin Weaver is Director of the Center for Preservation
Research at Columbia University and has extensive international consulting
experience in all aspects of building conservation. He is the author of
Conserving Buildings: A Guide to Techniques and Materials.

Date: March 16
Please register by: March 1
Fee: $195 + GST (Canadian funds, non-credit; includes boxed lunch and
walking tour)
Note: See the SFU City Program Web site at www.sfu.ca/city/ for information
on "Preserving Wooden Structures" with Martin Weaver on March 17.

OBJECTIVES

The primary objectives of this intensive day-long course will be to
familiarize participants with bricks and architectural terra cotta as
historic building materials; their nature and how they were manufactured;
their performance in typical systems; their deterioration in various
environments and how they can be conserved and restored.

Participants will examine the problems of an actual historic terra cotta
building in Victoria with Professor Weaver. All attending the course will
also receive an annotated up-to-date bibliography and reading list with a
full range of references including both general introductions and more
scientific examinations of technical conservation issues.

DRAFT OUTLINE

9:00 - 10:30
* The materials of architectural ceramics: clays; plasticity; sands; fluxes;
grogs; slips and glazes
* The molding and forming of architectural ceramics
* The firing of architectural ceramics with a discussion on sintering;
vitrification; under-firing; and various forms of kilns

10:30 - 11:00  BREAK and DISCUSSION

11:00 - 12:30
* The performance and deterioration of architectural ceramics; as materials
and in systems
* Anchor and tie systems in architectural terra cotta
* Mortars and grouts

1:30 - 2:30  LUNCH

* Site visit to demonstrate typical terra cotta deterioration and
conservation problems

2:30 - 3:30
* The historical development of architectural terra cotta and typical
structural and anchor systems

3:30 - 4:00  COFFEE and DISCUSSION

4:00-5:00
* Conserving and restoring architectural terra cotta, the masonry units and
complete systems
* replacing individual units
* dry diamond core drilling
* in-situ conservation including the insertion of grout injection anchors
and other anchors and ties




For more information, please contact:

Joy Davis, Program Director
Cultural Resource Management Program
Division of Continuing Studies, University of Victoria
Phone 250-721-8462
FAX 250-721-8774
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