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After a Great Fire. The Problem of Roof Recovery in Historic Buildings

 After a Great Fire. The Problem of Roof Recovery in Historic Buildings
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Presented at IABSE Symposium: Synergy of Culture and Civil Engineering – History and Challenges, Wrocław, Poland, 7-9 October 2020, published in , pp. 544-551
DOI: 10.2749/wroclaw.2020.0544
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The great fire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris pointed public interest to the conservation issues. General expectation is to reconstruct the roof as wooden structure. Final decision will be un...
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Author(s):

Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Symposium: Synergy of Culture and Civil Engineering – History and Challenges, Wrocław, Poland, 7-9 October 2020
Published in:
Page(s): 544-551 Total no. of pages: 8
Page(s): 544-551
Total no. of pages: 8
Year: 2020
DOI: 10.2749/wroclaw.2020.0544
Abstract:

The great fire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris pointed public interest to the conservation issues. General expectation is to reconstruct the roof as wooden structure. Final decision will be undertaken by French architectural conservation experts, who analyses a state of preservation of affected by fire the upper parts of the building. Great fires and wars caused numerous destruction of these important historic monuments. Since the XIX century we have plenty roof reconstruction completed as an iron, a steel, or a reinforced concrete structures. Modern concept of historic conservation requires an authenticity of the heritage. New roof structures to some extend creates.

Keywords:
reconstruction roof structural engineering fire heritage church