Stone Works Valuation within Immovable Cultural Heritage Monuments Restoration

Petra Fučíková,Jan Tichý,Zuzana Mrňová,Alena Tichá

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/1203/2/022042

Abstract

Historic buildings and their stone parts represent both specific functional architectural features of constructions and important aspects of the cultural heritage. They provide important and valuable proof of development, style, and architecture, level of decorative art, and material processing techniques. However, these historic buildings need restoration so that their legacy can be preserved for future generations. The quality of restoration work tends to be closely related to work price. At present, however, prices for the restoration of stone parts of historic buildings are determined intuitively, based on their complexity, uniqueness, and specificity of restoration work. The valuation of restoration work is therefore carried out mainly by the private sector, based on the experience of individual budgeters and restorers. Due to the fact that the limits of the maximum and minimum scope of individual actions are not set, incorrect valuation can occur, which, in the case of subsequent implementation, may damage, or even in fact damages, the restoration activity as such. Based on this, the article deals with valuation of stone works restoration in real historic structures. It introduces and describes the proposal for systematic classification of these types of work, the procedure for setting standards for time units and consequently the proposal of formula structure for calculating costs and prices. The aim of the article is to introduce the use of standardised procedures for pricing of stone works restoration and thereby create a comparative and cost bases in order to make a qualified choice of restoration specialists.

Highlights

Historic buildings and their stone masonry parts represent both specific functional architectural features of the buildings and an important part of the cultural heritage
Work associated with the preservation and use of such buildings, at the level of current knowledge and functional and aesthetic requirements, is associated with the expenditure of significant funds
The article presents only selected results of an extensive survey resulting in the elaboration of a university qualification dissertation thesis, which deals solely with the valuation of masonry stonework restoration within the wide area of restoration work valuation

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Historic buildings and their stone masonry parts represent both specific functional architectural features of the buildings and an important part of the cultural heritage. They provide significant and valuable proof of development, morphology and architecture design, level of artistic decoration, and materials processing method. Work associated with the preservation and use of such buildings, at the level of current knowledge and functional and aesthetic requirements, is associated with the expenditure of significant funds. The prices for the restoration of stone masonry parts of buildings are often set only intuitively due to their complexity, uniqueness, and special character of the work.

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