http://www.ncptt.nps.gov National Center for Preservation Technology and Training Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:07:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/rehabilitating-historic-wrought-iron-and-steel-bridges/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/rehabilitating-historic-wrought-iron-and-steel-bridges/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:57:35 +0000 jkguin http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=4642 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/rehabilitating-historic-wrought-iron-and-steel-bridges/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/ptt-2010-proposal-submissions-has-closed/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/ptt-2010-proposal-submissions-has-closed/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:00:39 +0000 NCPTT http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=4616 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/ptt-2010-proposal-submissions-has-closed/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/ptt-grant-is-funding-database-for-research-of-fibers/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/ptt-grant-is-funding-database-for-research-of-fibers/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:52:43 +0000 jkguin http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=4499 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/ptt-grant-is-funding-database-for-research-of-fibers/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/preservation-symposium-to-honor-james-marston-fitch/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/preservation-symposium-to-honor-james-marston-fitch/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:20:25 +0000 NCPTT http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=3901 A symposium is being held on Saturday, September 26, 2009, from 9AM to 5PM to honor James Marston Fitch, a founding father of historic preservation in the United States. Fitch was an architect, preservationist, and a founder of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.

The topic for this year will be "The Preservationists' Eye: Esthetics in Reuse and Conservation of the Historic Built Environment" and will be held at the recently restored Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at 15 East 84th Street in New York City.

The deadline for applying for the Fitch Mid-Career Grant and the Richard L. Blinder Award is Wednesday, September 16, 2009.]]> http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/preservation-symposium-to-honor-james-marston-fitch/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/preservation-of-historic-iron-and-steel-in-bridges-and-other-metal-structures/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/preservation-of-historic-iron-and-steel-in-bridges-and-other-metal-structures/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:15:51 +0000 NCPTT http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=4291 a three-day workshop on March 8, 9 and 10, 2010, to introduce a wide variety of interested personnel, including State Historic Preservation officers, Department of Transportation officials, engineers, engineering students, general contractors, and historic bridge preservationists, to restoration processes of historic metals using electric arc welding, heat straightening, and hot riveting processes. Funded in part by a grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.]]> http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/preservation-of-historic-iron-and-steel-in-bridges-and-other-metal-structures/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/six-ways-to-improve-your-chances-of-getting-a-ptt-grant/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/six-ways-to-improve-your-chances-of-getting-a-ptt-grant/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:07:18 +0000 Mary Striegel http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=4250 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/six-ways-to-improve-your-chances-of-getting-a-ptt-grant/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/3d-digital-rock-art-documentation-and-preservation-workshop-2009-05/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/3d-digital-rock-art-documentation-and-preservation-workshop-2009-05/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:10:04 +0000 NCPTT http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=4079 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/3d-digital-rock-art-documentation-and-preservation-workshop-2009-05/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/dplan-software-package-helps-collections-managers-make-the-best-of-the-worst/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/dplan-software-package-helps-collections-managers-make-the-best-of-the-worst/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:58:00 +0000 jkguin http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=4029 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/dplan-software-package-helps-collections-managers-make-the-best-of-the-worst/feed/ 2 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/pttgrant-whats-out-there/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/pttgrant-whats-out-there/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:55:18 +0000 jkguin http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=3985
Ultimately, the What's Out There project seeks not only to make design landscapes more visible on a national scale, but also wants to encourage original scholarship aid in future NR and NHL nominations, encourage state and local landscape inventories, generate cultural landscape reports and inspire design professionals.]]> http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/pttgrant-whats-out-there/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/mechanical-systems-in-historic-buildings-1998-20/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/mechanical-systems-in-historic-buildings-1998-20/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:46:27 +0000 NCPTT http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=3913

1. Provide a working vocabulary in each of the areas.
2. Discuss issues in each of the areas that specifically deal with historic preservation.
3. Establish a beginners level understanding of how each of these areas work in a building and provide some useful information on how to diagnose and remedy simple problems.
4. Present an historical perspective on the development of each of these trades.

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Later improvement of the suspension procedure resulted in consolidants that are much more stable and fluid. Stone treated with the particle-modified consolidant (PMC) increases dramatically in stiffness and strength. Most impressively in a sodium sulfate test, the PMC provided better protection than a commercial silicate consolidant.]]> http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/improved-sol-gel-consolidants-for-stone-2002-24/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/evaluation-of-conservation-and-preservation-practices-in-a-southwest-pottery-collection-2009-04/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/evaluation-of-conservation-and-preservation-practices-in-a-southwest-pottery-collection-2009-04/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:11:37 +0000 NCPTT http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=3807
This research has afforded the opportunity to look forwards and backwards to identify patterns in archaeological methods, museum management and conservation.]]> http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/evaluation-of-conservation-and-preservation-practices-in-a-southwest-pottery-collection-2009-04/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/reflectance-transformation-imaging-workshop/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/reflectance-transformation-imaging-workshop/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:22:39 +0000 David W. Morgan http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=3755 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/reflectance-transformation-imaging-workshop/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/aerial-thermal-survey-of-new-philadelphia-illinois-town-site-2009-03/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/aerial-thermal-survey-of-new-philadelphia-illinois-town-site-2009-03/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:10:23 +0000 NCPTT http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=3728
The success of this technique will provide an extremely useful resource for applications on numerous similar sites throughout the nation.]]> http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/aerial-thermal-survey-of-new-philadelphia-illinois-town-site-2009-03/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/sourcing-shell-and-shell-tempered-artifacts-using-laser-ablation-2009-02/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/sourcing-shell-and-shell-tempered-artifacts-using-laser-ablation-2009-02/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:41:24 +0000 NCPTT http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=3716
Because each waterway is chemically different to some extent, and because mussels incorporate the chemicals into their shells, it is theoretically possible to identify where shell artifacts or shell-tempered pottery was made by chemically analyzing the shell.]]> http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/sourcing-shell-and-shell-tempered-artifacts-using-laser-ablation-2009-02/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/ptt-grantees-make-time-team-america/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/ptt-grantees-make-time-team-america/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:42:06 +0000 David W. Morgan http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=3652
As Kris Hurst put it on her About.com blog, Time Team America "brings a Mission Impossible team of professional archaeologists to a different archaeological site in the United States," where they spend "three days at each site, bringing along a raft of cutting edge remote sensing and geophysical survey techniques."]]> http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/ptt-grantees-make-time-team-america/feed/ 1 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/cultural-landscape-of-the-upper-tongue-river-valley-in-rosebud-county-montana-2007-12/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/cultural-landscape-of-the-upper-tongue-river-valley-in-rosebud-county-montana-2007-12/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:33:27 +0000 NCPTT http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=3690 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/cultural-landscape-of-the-upper-tongue-river-valley-in-rosebud-county-montana-2007-12/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/merging-aerial-synthetic-aperture-radar-sar-and-satellite-multispectral-data-to-inventory-archaeological-sites-2007-11/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/merging-aerial-synthetic-aperture-radar-sar-and-satellite-multispectral-data-to-inventory-archaeological-sites-2007-11/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:56:56 +0000 NCPTT http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=3681
Successful protocols for the use of sophisticated synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technologies for such inventories in certain environments were formulated recently.]]> http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/merging-aerial-synthetic-aperture-radar-sar-and-satellite-multispectral-data-to-inventory-archaeological-sites-2007-11/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/a-grading-protocol-for-structural-lumber-and-timber-in-historic-structures-2009-01/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/a-grading-protocol-for-structural-lumber-and-timber-in-historic-structures-2009-01/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:59:29 +0000 NCPTT http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=3636 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/a-grading-protocol-for-structural-lumber-and-timber-in-historic-structures-2009-01/feed/ 0 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/the-aftershock-of-economics-meets-conservation-online/ http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/the-aftershock-of-economics-meets-conservation-online/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:01:19 +0000 Mary Striegel http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/?p=3431 http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/the-aftershock-of-economics-meets-conservation-online/feed/ 3