The Church Microclimate Monitoring

Abstract

The article is dealing with church microclimate monitoring and describing microclimatic changes within the period of one year. With regards to the assumed purpose of the measurement, i.e. protection of building structures and artworks in the church interior, the main attention was paid to water vapours condensation on the surface of structures and changes of humidity by mass. Analysed auxiliary parameters were temperature, relative humidity and dew point. Attention was also paid to the analysis of humidity distribution in relation to various height levels of the church. Simulation of probable behaviour of internal microclimate of the church during the year cycles was created by measurement, serving for description of risk factors reducing life of historical structures and also allowing for proposal of improvement of the current condition by an intervention in the environment.