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Principles for Measures<br />
The following principles are to be recognized in<br />
the implementation of restoration measures on<br />
monuments:<br />
• The task differs completely from other<br />
(re)building projects and often represents<br />
a departure from established technical<br />
procedures.<br />
• The static-constructive treatment of industrial<br />
monuments requires experience and good<br />
judgment.<br />
• Durability of construction is substituted for<br />
regular inspections.<br />
• The aging process must be accepted as an<br />
unavoidable, continuous change of material<br />
properties.<br />
• Maintenance means preventive conservation,<br />
viz. precautions and indirect measures aimed<br />
at the prevention and reduction of further<br />
degeneration or loss.<br />
• Conservation (as defined above)<br />
• Repair (as defined above)<br />
• Renewal or Renovation (as defined above)<br />
• Reconstruction consists of the rebuilding of an<br />
object with old or new materials in its presumed<br />
original form based on documentary or material<br />
evidence.<br />
For sources of terms and definitions, see [2]<br />
Treatment Priorities<br />
Simple first! More extensive treatment follows,<br />
if simple fails. As a consequence we establish a<br />
hierarchy starting with conservation, restoration,<br />
reconstruction followed by repair / rehabilitation.<br />
This will result in significant cost savings effects<br />
with a significant amount depending on the size of<br />
the site.<br />
Preservation: dos and don‘ts<br />
The preservation of industrial monuments should be<br />
guided by four principles:<br />
1. Look for a strategy to estimate levels for proper<br />
action and safety<br />
2. Be different, which may mean<br />
- do it later<br />
- do it partly<br />
- don‘t allow access<br />
- back the structure<br />
- remove it (and save examples)<br />
- Decision-making means setting priorities<br />
3. Define standards for action<br />
4. Guide volunteers and ‚non-experts‘ from makework<br />
programs<br />
Assessment of Expenses and<br />
Timeframes<br />
The definition of goals has consequences. It results<br />
in treatment and allows an assessment of expenses<br />
and timeframes. Both are effects of goals – never<br />
vice versa! Our action plan will point out this fact<br />
very clearly.<br />
A special problem is the question of extent and<br />
means of financing of measures to restore industrial<br />
monuments: large industrial sites do not fit into<br />
the classical system of support for monuments.<br />
So far there are no “pots of money” for industrial<br />
monuments in Germany.<br />
In this context, a comparison with established objects<br />
of monument preservation may be helpful. Consider,<br />
for instance, the Frauenkirche in Munich: Over the<br />
next 20 years, half a million Euros will be provided<br />
“preliminarily” each year for the renovation of the<br />
facade of this-admittedly very prominent-edifice.<br />
This amounts to an expected total of 10 million<br />
Euros, a sum in which cost overruns due to the<br />
ambitious choice of restoration measures are already<br />
anticipated. In comparison, the four sites of our case<br />
studies (see Figure 4) require only a fraction of this<br />
amount, even though each individual construction<br />
volume is comparable to that of the Frauenkirche!<br />
Consequently, the handbook for our action plan will<br />
make the case that major industrial monuments rank<br />
on the same level of importance as other monuments.<br />
This also means that they should be treated similarly<br />
financially.<br />
Case Studies<br />
As examples we will discuss several industrial<br />
sites in the Rhine-Ruhr area: The blast furnaces of<br />
the Henrichshuette at Hattingen and Meiderich /<br />
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