24-10-2023

MAINTENANCE OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL CULTURAL HERITAGE: CARE AND PREVENTION

Foto Credits: CHVL Architetti Associati

MAINTENANCE OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL CULTURAL HERITAGE: CARE AND PREVENTION

TUESDAY, 13th FEBRUARY 2024

2.30 p.m.

Italy has the largest cultural heritage in the world. A historical, artistic and architectural value, of which religious architecture is the main protagonist. Our churches, oratories, and meeting places are landmarks for the community, the main places that receive a significant amount of people every day. However, more than 60 percent of the buildings constructed are more than 50 years old, and there are several signs that show the natural deterioration due to their age. These kind of degradations can sometimes become safety issues for the communities that experience these buildings.

Although church institutions make significant economic efforts in order to ensure a minimum of ordinary maintenance, it is more and more difficult to meet such needs due to increasingly tight economic resources especially due to the worsening environmental conditions around them: thunderstorms of greater intensity, increasingly persistent and aggressive pollution, more frequent seismic events, or the lack of ability to prevent-through planned activity and in-depth knowledge regarding the topic of safety of our buildings-any problems that if not " treated" in time and way can become too expensive to manage later.

So, is the maintenance of our heritage to be considered an EXPENSE or an INVESTMENT?

What strategies to implement and how to manage the scheduling of maintenance work on our assets, also depending on the availability of available funding or grants?

This is chosen with the aim of promoting knowledge on specific problems of risk and degradation that can affect our buildings, stimulating the interest of research and innovation of real solutions for the settlement of the problems dealt with. The aim is also to actively involve Clients and Project Planners.

moderator	CATERINA PARRELLO, architect, Editorial Director CHIESA OGGI
ore 14.00	CATERINA PARRELLO, architect, Editorial Director CHIESA OGGI Care and prevention of our heritage
	CARMINE GRAVINO, engineer, technical office Archdiocese of Naples The importance of scheduling and resources on maintenance
	CHRISTIAN ROCCHI, architect CHVL Architetti Associati (Roma) Heritage maintenance: conservation begins with planning
	DANIELE DE LUCA, architect, director of ecclesiastical cultural heritage office of the Diocese of Vercelli Heritage Management and Preservation: the search for public and private contributions and co-funding beyond Italian Bishop's Conference's grants
	BARBARA FIORINI, architect Church heritage maintenance: experience and practice
4.15 p.m.	Conclusions

REGISTRATION FORM

TO WHOM IT IS ADDRESSED
This meeting is addressed to priests and collaborators, liturgists, diocesan leaders, artists, architects, all those involved in art, liturgy, pastoral care, cultural heritage and ecclesiastical architectural spaces.

COURSE CREDIT AND EXEMPTION
For this conference, the recognition of credits has been requested from the Order of Architects of Bologna.
A request was made to the Ministry of Education and Merit for ministerial exemption from school activities in order to attend the conventions.