World Monuments Fund invites you to vote for your favorite photo in our Everyday Preservationist Photo Contest. The photos in this gallery were submitted by photographers of all levels to advocate for everyday preservation. World Monuments Fund sends preservation experts to endangered sites all over the world, but there are things we can do closer…
Picture a manmade water channel 10 miles long, able to carry up to 80 million gallons of water a day. Then consider what it would take to affix the lion’s share of that wood and iron structure to the side of serpentine, vertical canyon walls, 100 feet off the ground, weaving through the desert in…
An article in theNew York Times (7/24, by Penelope Green), tells the story of how NYC mayoral candidate George McDonald purchased and now lives in the unique Tile House in Bay Shore, NY. Here’s a brief excerpt … “The Tile House, its local nickname, is an eccentric, Moorish-looking brick folly on the south shore…
This July, Keith Luscinski (from the Vertical Access – Salt Lake City office) joined Rob Moore and Dave Katz from Cornell University’s Tree Climbing Institute, on a research trip to assist a team from the University of California, Berkeley with an ongoing project of tracking and sampling seed cones from the canopies of the giant…
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Crew Assesses Damage To Capitol Dome – YouTube. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5feAfw8aM]
Mechanical anchor systems are commonly installed in historic masonry materials despite the lack of manufacturer-specified design values for this type of substrate. Scaffolding lateral supports, signage installations and telecommunication mounting systems all use these mechanical fasteners in natural stone materials. The current lack of codes, guidelines or recommendations for tensile and shear design criteria in…
By Trevor Brown, Wyoming Tribune Eagle CHEYENNE — A team of specialized engineers and technicians dangled 140 feet from the ground Tuesday as they rappelled down the side of the State Capitol’s dome. Equipped with tablets to record notes and take pictures, three workers* from the consulting firm of Vertical Access went inch by inch,…
Sponsored in part by a grant from NCPTT Workshop. Fri, Oct 11, 8:00 – 5:00 Sat, Oct 12, 8:00 – 4:00 Location: Ottavino Stone “American architects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries would often leave empty spaces in their blueprints and simply write, ‘Guastavino here.’ They had faith that Rafael Guastavino would create…
Listen to NPR Podcast from April 29, 2013 and/or read the transcript. A Washington, D.C., museum wants you to spend some time looking up — to see soaring, vaulted tile ceilings built by a father-son team who left their mark on some of America’s most important public spaces. These ceilings grace landmarks that include state…
