Novel, Sustainable Preservation of Modern and Historic Buildings and Infrastructure. The Paradigm of the Holy Aedicule’s Rehabilitation

Abstract

ABSTRACT Modern and historic buildings and infrastructure are subject to varying environments and risk conditions. Their sustainable preservation demands an integrated methodology of diagnosis, monitoring and control, with appropriate interventions, designed, implemented and assessed within a holistic approach that benefits from transdisciplinarity and cooperation between involved scientific and technical fields and stakeholders. The project of the rehabilitation of the Holy Aedicule of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, can act as an emblematic and successful paradigm that demonstrates a multispectral, multidimensional, novel approach to address the project’s challenges and preserve the monument and the values it represents.