Big Stuff 2015

Creator: Romain Jeanneret, Tobias Schenkel, Christian Degrigny, Damien Tournache, Guillaume Rapp, Olivia Mooser, Manon Raïs, Audrey Liardon, & Anaïs Vecten Date: 2015 Introduction (French): En 1858, l’Observatoire de Neuchâtel voit le jour avec la mission de déterminer, conserver et transmettre l’heure exactepour dynamiser l’industrie horlogère helvétique.Cette heure était destinée aux gares, industries locales et écoles … Read more

Creator: Gesa Witt & Ulrich Stahn Date: 2015 Introduction: Hamburg had one of the oldest and most extensive German tram networks. The first electrically-powered line was opened as early as 1894. In 1958, the Senate of the Hansestadt Hamburg decided to close down the entire network; the last route was converted to a bus service … Read more

Creator: Alison Wain Date: 2015 Introduction: People who restore large technology heritage items often assume that they are all doing the same thing, and because they assume they are doing the same thing, they judge each other by their own standards. In fact, they are not doing the same thing at all, and what is … Read more

Creator: David Thickett Date: 2015 Introduction: Dover Castle on the south east coast of England has the longest recorded history of any in Britain. Three brick-lined casemate tunnels were excavated under the famous White Cliffs to house troops during the Napoleonic Wars. These tunnels housed Rear Admiral Ramsey’s headquarters for the evacuation from Dunkirk during … Read more

Creator: Norbert Tempel & Axel Böcker Date: 2015 Introduction: Large concrete structures like bunkers and silos for ore or coal are perhaps the most ignored parts of industrial monuments. Older structures have their origin in the 2ndhalf of the 19thcentury, but the main part of the surviving reinforced concrete constructions have been built in the … Read more

Creator: Kaat Sneiders & Marjolijn Debulpaep Date: 2015 Introduction: After their extraordinary history,six magnificent train wagons lie in a workshop declared unusable by the fire department.The owner decides to hermetically seal the wagons against light and – capital mistake – heating as well. This awakens incubated populations and they infest every nook and cranny of … Read more

Creator: Timothy Scarlett Date: 2015 Reference: Timothy Scarlett, ‘Batch treatments for industrial heritage collections: Supercritical CO2 treatments to stabilize ferrous metal artifacts’, Big Stuff 2015

Creator: Martin Sauder Date: 2015 Introduction (English): Historic Monuments, made of reinforced concrete, make completely new requirements on the methods of repair and remediation. In particular the large scale measures of surface preparation, e. g. sand blasting and high pressure water jets, complete surface coatings with mortars etc., cause severe changes in the special characteristics … Read more

Creator: Kathleen Ribbens Date: 2015 Introduction: This paper presents an overview of the restoration of the biggest collection item of the Atlantikwall Museum of Raversyde in Ostend, Belgium performed in the year of 2014. The Atlantikwall museum Raversyde is situated in a unique location near the seaside and houses a large open-air collection of a … Read more

Creator: Stan Reed Date: 2015 Introduction: The Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage has initiated a conservation programme to rehabilitate fifteen prioritised industrial heritage sites to a level where they can be preserved through routine maintenance. Næs Ironworks is the best preserved of the old Norwegian ironworks and is one of the prioritised sites. Næs has … Read more