PC/GIS based system for maintenance management of wooden buildings -: MMWood

The EU-project ENV4-CT95-0110 Wood Assess pursued pooling of European resources to develop methods and technologies for proper assessment of the conservation state, and for mapping and assessing environmental risk factors to wooden cultural buildings. The project completed all its tasks and achieved all its objectives, developing and validating a Condition Assessment Protocol, methods for continuous measurements of moisture and temperature in the micro-environment, and systems for mapping environmental risk factors to wooden cultural buildings. The theoretical and methodological foundation for the project builds heavily on the internationally recognised methodology for prediction of durability, service life and maintenance intervals, now being standardised by the ISO/TC59/SC14 "Design Life". European standards like prEN 13013-3 "Calculation of driving rain index for vertical surfaces from hourly wind and rain data" have been used in estimating environmental exposure and it's impacts on the building objects. The PC based pilot version of the Assessment Protocol is available on a Geographical Information System (GIS) platform that can store, integrate and further process data of all kind such as text, pictures, maps, etc. Implementation of such a system puts requirements on its users, and it will require maintenance, support and further development to adopt to new technology and knowledge. These issues are dealt with in the following up project, the ENV4-CT98-0796 "System for Maintenance Management of Historic (Wooden) buildings", where the Wood-Assess concept is further developed towards the market.