Novel approaches to conserve our European heritage: Bioremediation for Building
Restoration of the Urban Stone Heritage in European States (BIOBRUSH)
Eric MAY, Thomas WARSCHEID, Claudia SORLINI, Linda KRAGE, Andreas VGENOPOULOS and Emilio MELLO
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The BIOBRUSH project of the European Commission 5th Framework Programme, contract No EVK4-CT-2001-00055, will investigate how bioremediation can be used for conservation of stone and brick in heritage buildings as well as specific stoneworks and frescoes mostly affected by indoor and outdoor air pollution. It will focus on the identification and culture of appropriate non-pathogenic micro-organisms able to destroy mineral salt crusts as well as organic compounds, and of other bacteria which, on the contrary, can produce 'bio-calcite' consolidating stone materials. Treatment combinations will be tested in a laboratory and in situ under different climatic conditions, as well as in urban and industrialised areas of Northern and Southern Europe. This innovative method is expected to be reversible, easily controllable and possibly cheaper compared to current practice. Recommendations for these practical conservation strategies will be established in close collaboration between the scientific partners and the end-users including conservators and industries.
Eric May
University of Portsmouth,
School of Biological Sciences
King Henry I Street
Portsmouth PO1 2DY, UK
e-mail: eric.may@port.ac.uk
Thomas Warscheid
Foundation Institute for Material Sciences
Microbiology Division
Paul-Feller-Strasse 1
28199 Bremen, Germany
Claudia Sorlini
Department of Food Science and Microbiology
University of Milano
Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy
Linda Krage
Riga Technical University
Centre of Stone Material Conservation
Azenes 14/24, 1048 Riga, Latvia
Andreas Vgenopoulos
National Technical University of Athens
Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering
Division of Geological Sciences
42 Heroon Polytechniou Street 9,
157-80 Athens, Greece
Emilio Mello
Syremont S.p.A.
c/o University of Calabria
Via Pietro Bucci, cubo 12B
87036 Arcavacata di Rende CS, Italy
Eric MAY, Thomas WARSCHEID, Claudia SORLINI, Linda KRAGE, Andreas VGENOPOULOS and Emilio MELLO
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The BIOBRUSH project of the European Commission 5th Framework Programme, contract No EVK4-CT-2001-00055, will investigate how bioremediation can be used for conservation of stone and brick in heritage buildings as well as specific stoneworks and frescoes mostly affected by indoor and outdoor air pollution. It will focus on the identification and culture of appropriate non-pathogenic micro-organisms able to destroy mineral salt crusts as well as organic compounds, and of other bacteria which, on the contrary, can produce 'bio-calcite' consolidating stone materials. Treatment combinations will be tested in a laboratory and in situ under different climatic conditions, as well as in urban and industrialised areas of Northern and Southern Europe. This innovative method is expected to be reversible, easily controllable and possibly cheaper compared to current practice. Recommendations for these practical conservation strategies will be established in close collaboration between the scientific partners and the end-users including conservators and industries.
Eric May
University of Portsmouth,
School of Biological Sciences
King Henry I Street
Portsmouth PO1 2DY, UK
e-mail: eric.may@port.ac.uk
Thomas Warscheid
Foundation Institute for Material Sciences
Microbiology Division
Paul-Feller-Strasse 1
28199 Bremen, Germany
Claudia Sorlini
Department of Food Science and Microbiology
University of Milano
Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy
Linda Krage
Riga Technical University
Centre of Stone Material Conservation
Azenes 14/24, 1048 Riga, Latvia
Andreas Vgenopoulos
National Technical University of Athens
Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering
Division of Geological Sciences
42 Heroon Polytechniou Street 9,
157-80 Athens, Greece
Emilio Mello
Syremont S.p.A.
c/o University of Calabria
Via Pietro Bucci, cubo 12B
87036 Arcavacata di Rende CS, Italy
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