Winter 2005 Update

APT Bulletin Focuses on Conservation, Includes Article on SOS! Project

Vulcan by Giuseppe Moretti in Birmingham, Alabama, being reinstalled after conservation treatment. Photo courtesy Nick Veloz.
A recent issue of the APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology includes articles on state-of-the-art preservation and restoration practices in North America and Europe. Four of the articles focus on metal building elements. Among them is the story of Birmingham, Alabama's Vulcan, the world's tallest cast-iron sculpture, and its restoration. Author J. Scott Howell relates the sculpture's creation, deterioration, and conservation, which included the sculpture's disassembly and reassembly by use of a crane. The project was funded by a Save Outdoor Sculpture! Conservation Treatment Award. Click here to learn more.

Other article topics include an analysis and comparison of cast- and wrought-iron girder cables from the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank in Philadelphia and the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in West Virginia; the conservation of submarines; restoration work at Soldier Field Stadium in Chicago; and the rehabilitation of mines.

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