Advances in Built Heritage Conservation: Materials, Methods and Management

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue of Heritage focused on “Advances in Built Heritage Conservation: Materials, Methods and Management”. The protection of heritage is of utmost importance due to its cultural, historical, and social value. This protection can be achieved through the following steps: (1) Improving the properties of the materials affected or to be used in heritage conservation, an area in which advancements in the use of nanomaterials are on the rise; (2) enhancing current intervention methods to minimize the risk of causing new alteration processes and to achieve greater effectiveness; (3) implementing digital documentation techniques, such as 3D laser scanning, and the early detection of pathologies through non-destructive techniques, such as infrared thermography, to enable the precise assessment of the state of historical buildings and to facilitate the planning of subsequent interventions; and (4) applying effective management techniques to ensure the long-term sustainability of heritage conservation efforts.

In particular, this Special Issue covers the following topics of interest:

• The development or improvement of the properties of materials used in cultural heritage;
• The use of nanomaterials in cultural heritage;
• Non-invasive analytical techniques, such as infrarred termography, electrical tomography, and georadar, among others, to diagnose different types of pathologies;
• Novel methods to protect or intervene in heritage sites;
• Improvements in the protocols and procedures of current treatments;
• Case studies dealing with analysis approaches, intervention methodologies, and management techniques.

This Special Issue will also be open to other topics, which have not been mentioned in the previous points specifically, but are related to the main topic of this Special Issue (advances in the materials, methods, and management techniques applied to cultural heritage).

Dr. Jorge Feijoo Conde
Dr. Iván Garrido González
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Heritage is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• non-destructive techniques
• intervention methodologies
• improvement of material properties
• management techniques
• nanomaterials