Workshop on poultice desalination of porous building materials--addendum

Poultice Desalination of Porous Building Materials
New Orleans, Louisiana
May 23-29, 2010

New Deadline for Submission:  4 January 2010

>From Angkor to Zanzibar and Venice to New Orleans, soluble salts
are responsible for significant damage to porous building materials.
But how does salt weathering take place, and what level of salts are
harmful? Are certain salts more damaging than others? Should they be
removed,and if so, how? Poultice Desalination of Porous Building
Materials will present new applied research on the process of
poultice desalination through practical applications and will
provide participants with a solid foundation for the poultice
treatment of salt-laden building materials.This hands-on workshop,
designed for field-based conservation professionals, will be
conducted through pre-workshop reading assignments and workshop
lectures, demonstrations, and field trials.

An international team of instructors will teach the workshop: Dr.
Eric Doehne,The Getty Conservation Institute; John A. Fidler,
Conservation Architect; Dr.Alison Heritage, Cologne University of
Applied Sciences; Dr.ir. Leo Pel, Eindhoven University of
Technology, Department of Physics; Veronique Verges Belmin,
Historical Monuments Research Laboratory (LRMH), France.

For information and application materials, please visit the Web site

    <URL:http://www.getty.edu/
        conservation/education/sci_series/poultice_workshop.html>

Reem Baroody
Senior Project Coordinator, Education
The Getty Conservation Institute
310-440-6576
rbaroody<-at->getty<.>edu


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