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Images from previous INTBAU masonry courses
This is a specially designed one week course for skilled apprentices, architecture students and young craftsman who aim to work in the field of preservation & conservation of historic buildings. The participants will be able to learn a wide range of techniques required to work on a site of an ancient building. This course is also very suited for those who intend to become trainers or leaders of restoration projects. Prior experience in restoration work is required. Cost £695/person which includes tuition fees, accommodation for 7 days, 3 meals a day, protection equipment, tools and materials and local trips.
The course elements include:
- lime plastering, brick work and stone masonry work on highly sensitive sites
- individual tuition on course managements and leadership to those who intend to become trainers
- problem solving attitude
- drawing lessons
PROGRAMME
17 August 2009, Monday
08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE & Aura Woodward)
- Introduction to INTBAU
- Health and Safety Rules
- Lecture: Village life, Construction of the Archita village (Saxon architecture)
- House structure: foundation, walls and roof. Faults
- Conservation and Restoration in England and Romania
- Walking tour of the fortified church and the village of Archita
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 18.00
- Back to basics: Setting out old buildings. Tools, materials, mixing lime mortars, cutting out defective mortar (stone joints and brick)
- Preparation for tamping, lime pointing and dubbing out plaster work
- Video show: Conservation in England and Romania
- Questions and answers
18 August 2009, Tuesday
08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE)
- Practical work: tamping, lime pointing, dubbing out for plaster
- Practical: technologies used in pre 1919 historic buildings
- Stonemasonry
- Lecture: Shoring and propping
- Taking down historic wall and rebuilding (part 1)
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 18.00
- Practical: technologies used in pre 1919 historic buildings
- Taking down historic wall and rebuilding (part 2)
- Documentary projection
- Questions and answers
19 August 2009, Wednesday
08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE)
- Completion: Rebuilding historic wall section (part 3)
- Lecture: Techniques used in the preservation and conservation of historic buildings Types of grouting, tamping, lime pointing.
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 18.00
- Techniques used in the preservation and conservation of historic buildings
- Video show: repair of a Saxon house
20 August 2009, Thursday
08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE)
Lecture: Traditional repair of Saxon houses: foundation underpinning, fractures stitching, brick, stone, timber
Major fractures
Practical repair plaster work
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 18.00
Practical: repair plasterwork
21 August 2009, Friday
08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE & Aura Woodward)
Medieval city of Sighisoara (UNESCO Heritage City): one hour tour of historic buildings
Working on historic buildings in UNESCO city of Sighisoara
Survey buildings: Foundation, walls, roof, faults
Drawing
Specification
Method statements & Risk assessment
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 18.00: Practical work in conservation on live project
22 August 2009, Saturday
08.00 - 13.00 (Henry Rumbold, MBE, Aura Woodward)
Visit the village of Cloasterf
Structural repair of Saxon houses
Lecturing during a walk through the village and analysing different types of work undertaken over the last 7 years (some of which was supervised by Henry Rumbold): focus on structural repair, stonework, brickwork and plaster repair, facades
13.00 - 14.00 PICNIK LUNCH in the village of Viscri (UNESCO Heritage site)
Village walk
18.00 - 19.00 Closing reception at the medieval Church of Archita and the inauguration of the exhibition of the best drawings of the week
19.00 - 21.00 Dinner
23 August 2009, Sunday
Participants return home
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