Civil engineering heritage: country profile – Belgium

Espion, Bernard; Engels, R.M.; Provost, Michel

doi:10.1680/jenhh.17.00010

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“…Through the review of papers, we found that these articles appeared in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Engineering History and Heritage conference in 2016-2017. During this period, scholars discussed the protection, restoration, and transformation of infrastructure, buildings, and structures, with three papers focusing on canal and industrial building heritage in the ENGLAND, Spain, and Belgium, thus exhibiting high burst intensity [95,96].…”

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Research Hotspots and Future Trends in Canal-Related Industrial Buildings

Sun,

Fan

2024

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During the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, canals played a crucial role in facilitating the rapid development of factories. Despite economic downturns and the rise of alternative transportation towards the end of the last century, canals have been experiencing a resurgence in recent years, driven by the principles of sustainable development. To gain a deeper understanding of global academic research focus and current trends, this paper systematically reviews publications related to canal-related industrial buildings from 1997 to 22 January 2024. Using the bibliometric software CiteSpace 6.3.1, information such as countries, institutions, authors, keywords, and references from 96 selected articles in the Web of Science (WoS) database was visualized and analyzed. The results reveal that the current research hotspots in this field mainly focus on five clusters: “stakeholders”, “green spaces”, “conservation areas”, “industrial heritage”, and “energy-efficient reconstruction”. The most popular research topics concerning canal-related industrial buildings are “urban renewal”, “industrial heritage”, “climate change”, and “heritage tourism”, with most themes closely linked to sustainable development. However, it is observed that there is still a lack of a systematic research framework in this field. Most studies originate from heritage management and conservation, landscape rejuvenation along canals, and canal water resource management, while systematic research on canal-related industrial buildings remains limited. Based on these findings, this study proposes future trends and potential research directions in this field, aiming to provide researchers with a comprehensive understanding of the status and to support the sustainable preservation and management of industrial buildings and heritage along canals with a more systematic research framework.

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Section: Future Research Trendsmentioning

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Research Hotspots and Future Trends in Canal-Related Industrial Buildings

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2024

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“…The issue of valuing construction work on immovable cultural monuments has not yet been addressed in more depth in the professional literature. There are many publications that deal with the preservation of cultural heritage objects, but they usually do not address construction costs and other economic aspects [1,2,3].…”

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Valuation of construction work on architectural heritage and its influence on project implementation decision

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The article deals with the description of the methodology for determining the prices of construction work used most often in the reconstruction of historic buildings. The procedure is based on parametric estimating of buildings and on traditional tools and principles of pricing. The historic building is divided into structural parts and technological units. Structural elements are individually valued at the unit price, which was created on the basis of sub-budget. Very strict rules are set for the financing of cultural monuments and the method of valuation is based on the price systems’ methodology. The research also included an analysis of market prices and a subsequent comparison with indicative prices. Proper estimate of historic buildings’ reconstruction cost is also an important input for the decision-making process regarding the actual implementation of the project, its method of execution and its life cycle cost determination.

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“…Using the most accurate input data will allow a correct analysis, which becomes an important basis for decision making. Based on the background information, suitable solution options will be developed, and the optimal option will be selected (Yarrow, 2016;Klapa et al, 2017. To properly design the financing of the building, it is necessary to know not only the current condition and determine the necessary funding for restoration, but also to focus on long-term sustainable financing that will include the costs of operation, maintenance, and partial restoration during the use of the monument (Espion et al, 2017). Monuments are to a large extent individual buildings that vary from one another and it is not possible to use a single system to estimate costs in a blanket way.…”

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Advances in costs optimization methods – key study of maintenance and restoration of cultural heritage

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Macek²,

Heralová³

et al. 2022

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The article deals with the issue of restoration and care of cultural heritage buildings in the Czech Republic. The content is focused mainly on the topic of valuation of construction works. Obtaining quality documents is very important for planning reconstruction and maintenance works on a building of cultural heritage. Proper and timely maintenance work is the key to maintaining the value of the building and increasing its viability. The tool for assessing the economic sustainability of an immovable cultural heritage is a life cycle cost analysis carried out on the basis of relevant input data on the technical parameters of the building, structural elements and equipment, the time period of the occurrence of costs related to them. The analysis becomes an important basis for decision-making by the owner, the designer and the future user on choosing the optimal variant of the technical solution for restoration, also with regard to ecological aspects, cultural and historical value and long-term economic consequences.

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Civil engineering heritage: country profile – Belgium

Cited by 5 publications

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Research Hotspots and Future Trends in Canal-Related Industrial Buildings

Research Hotspots and Future Trends in Canal-Related Industrial Buildings

Valuation of construction work on architectural heritage and its influence on project implementation decision

Advances in costs optimization methods – key study of maintenance and restoration of cultural heritage

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