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Maintenance and Conservation of Technical Monuments

Language of instruction čeština
Code 542-0007
Abbreviation ÚKTP
Course title Maintenance and Conservation of Technical Monuments
Coordinating department Department of Mining Engineering and Safety
Course coordinator Ing. Jaroslava Koudelková, Ph.D.

Summary

Knowledge: The student characterizes technical and industrial monuments, their basic types, and their importance in the context of technological and industrial development. The student explains the basic principles of maintenance, conservation, restoration, and renewal of technical monuments, is familiar with the basic system of heritage conservation and the related legal framework, and describes possibilities for the preservation, accessibility, and current use of technical heritage.

Skills: The student distinguishes between the basic approaches to the care of technical monuments, identifies the differences between maintenance, repair, conservation, and restoration, and relates these principles to specific technical monuments. The student is able to work with basic information concerning the protection, renewal, and use of technical monuments and assess their importance within industrial heritage.

General competences: The student assesses a specific technical heritage site in terms of its historical, technical, and social value, evaluates the suitability of the chosen approach to its protection and preservation, and justifies their professional opinion.

Literature

WARHURST, Alyson a Ligia NORONHA. Environmental policy in mining: corporate strategy and planning for closure. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, c2000. ISBN 1-56670-365-4.

Advised literature

Technické památky Česka: Technical monuments in Czechia = Technische Denkmäler in Tschechien : 1:500 000. 2. vydání. Praha: Kartografie Praha, 2016. ISBN 978-80-7393-402-6 .