Registration Fee:
APT Members: $90
Emerging Professionals: $50
Students: $30
Non-Members: $140
Aging modern heritage buildings and structures face complex repair and reinvestment challenges. Manufactured composite materials and multi-material assemblies often cannot be cost-effectively repaired or replaced in kind; proprietary building materials may no longer be manufactured. Others contain components, such as asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), that are toxic or hazardous. Limited guidance is available to assist practitioners in identifying appropriate substitutes and approaches that balance stewardship, safety, environmental, lifecycle performance and resilience goals for sound long-term treatment.
In the face of these challenges, APT’s Technical Committee on Modern Heritage (TCMH) convened leading practitioners, scholars, and agency experts at APT’s 2023 Seattle conference to discuss model approaches and develop, in collaboration with attending members, practice guidance for the responsible and cost-effective treatment of composite materials and assemblies.
APT 2023 symposium speakers look forward to this opportunity to share their presentations with APT members unable to attend the conference symposium. Symposium organizers will also brief attendees on the discussion session outcome and invite member feedback on next steps.
This APT moderated webinar will be held in meeting format to encourage substantive interaction between attendees and symposium presenters.
Presentations:
Post World War II Facade Technology Overview: Innovations & Lifecycle Challenges
David Fixler, FAIA/FAPT, Principal, David Fixler Architecture Planning Preservation & APT Technical Committee on Modern Heritage Co-Founder
Identifying, Removing, Mitigating Hazardous Materials
Bill Parks, Senior Project Manager, F.D. Thomas
Viewing the Challenge Through the Lens of the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation
John Sandor, Senior Historian, National Park Service, Technical Preservation Services.
Repair, Replacement, and Encapsulation of Asbestos Cement Exterior Panels at the Eames House
César Bargues Ballester, Associate Project Specialist, Getty Institute
Chandler McCoy, Senior Project Specialist, Getty Institute
Green Skins for Old Bones: Design for Disassembly and Sustainable Facade Retrofit
Mic Patterson, Principal, Design Tectonics, Inc., and co-founder, Facade Tectonics Institute
Revisiting Past Projects: Rethinking Reinvestment to Achieve Preservation and Performance Goals
Beth L. Savage, Federal Preservation Officer and Director, Center for Historic Buildings, US General Services Administration
Future-Proofing, Charters, and Standards: Integrating Principles into Practice
Brian Rich, Principal, Richaven Architecture & Preservation.
Symposium Discussion Proceedings and Next Steps
Kelly Sutherlin McLeod, FAIA and Caroline Alderson, FAPT, APT Technical Committee on Modern Heritage Co-chairs