How Cities Accelerate Facade Weathering
City life doesn’t just affect people—it impacts buildings too.
Air pollution, dust, and even microbes can create black crusts, weaken stone, and speed up deterioration on historic facades. ()
Protecting these structures starts with understanding how urban conditions shape their aging.
Interesting read here if you have any interest in lime-based render, conservation of historic buildings and how climate change makes overturning Victorian building conservation practice all the more sensible.
#HistoricBuilding #Lime #BuildingConservation
Beneath the Surface? An Interview with Dr Timothy Meek https://alfierobinson.substack.com/p/beneath-the-surface-an-interview
One way to deal with this would be to impose some fairly hefty fines on land owners who let their vacant plots become overgrown with buddleja. There may be other ways as well, but without doubt something needs to be done, and it needs to be done now.
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This means this one patch on the corner of High Street and George Street could produce somewhere between 10 million and 100 million seeds each year, which will be dispersed by the winds and settle on the city's buildings. There could easily be 100 such buddleja factories across central Glasgow alone, collectively pumping out up to a billion seeds a year.
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If we wish to get rid of damaging buddleja from Glasgow's historic buildings, we first need to eliminate the buddleja factories on the city's unused plots. Why? Just look at the numbers. Each individual buddleja flower head can produce 40,000 seeds, and each mature plant 1 million.
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The 15-minute city | Carlos Moreno https://youtu.be/TQ2f4sJVXAI?feature=shared via @YouTube
Sky-high vanity: constructing the world’s tallest buildings creates high emissions
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📢 Amgueddfa Cymru calls for 💰 💰 💰 to safeguard #collections for #Wales
This doesn't surprise me: museums are chronically underfunded and constantly asked to put off basic maintenance and #conservation 😩 Good to see it being talked about!
Lots of different figures being thrown around in this article, but basically: #CollectionsCare and #BuildingConservation costs money. Lots of money!
Full read here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65208715
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Eric Branse-Instone
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