Microclimate inside cultural heritage buildings

Contents: The problem of Cultural Heritage conservation is growing in importance. This is due to the increasing interest and sensitivity in this field, as well as the large awareness of the uniqueness of the works of art that have been preserved up to the present generation.
Nevertheless, not much knowledge has been developed up to now on the non-destructive diagnosis of the environment in which the works of art are being exhibited and preserved.
The people in charge of the restoration, the transport, the exhibition and, at a general level, the management of the works of art often don't have enough background on and familiarity with the Microclimate inside Cultural Heritage buildings.
Hence, this book has been written with the aim to fill this big gap in the world of scientific publishing and to provide the basis of microclimatology applied to Cultural Heritage conservation. The subject is being covered a simple way, rich in suggestions and important case-studies as examples.
Part of the book is focused on the theoretical background of microclimatic monitoring, with an in depth study of the methodology and the experimental apparatus. An even larger part is devoted to the description of field surveys and practices in important European buildings.

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Author: Dr. Adriana Bernardi. Graduated in Physics at the University of Padua (Italy) in 1980. Senior researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council of Italy (CNR). Since 1980 she works at the CNR, in the field of Microclimatology, Environmental Sciences and Conservation of Cultural Heritage.
Since 1982 she is participating and coordinating numerous national and international projects, a lot of them supported by the European Commission. She has been assigned as evaluator of proposal for the 5FP "City of tomorrow" and for the Italian Ministry of University and Research. She is the coordinator of the Working Group 4 "Energy and Environment" in the ECTP- FACH (Focus Area Cultural Heritage) supported by the European Commission. She is the official delegate of FACH Group inside the "JTI Energy Efficient Buildings" of the European Construction Technological Platform (ECTP) supported by the European Commission.
She is the scientific responsible of a Spin-off project financed by Italian Ministry of University and Research for the building of innovative technology in extreme environments.
She has published about 150 scientific papers and she is member of several international and national commissions established by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Environment concerning artworks conservation and pollution effects (e.g. French Ministry for the Lascaux Caves) and for the establishment of Italian Standards (UNI).
She has taught numerous courses in several Italian universities and she is actually professor at the University of Ferrara in the field of Conservation of works of art. She obtained a European wide patent for an instrument called "Dew sensor".
She is editor-in-chief of the Journal "Bollettino Geofisico", published by the Italian Geophysical Association (AGI).