12th USICOMOS Symposium Program (2009)

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PRESERVATION IN PERIL

United States National Committee of theInternational Council on Monuments and Sites

March 11-15, 2009 in New Orleans

Co-sponsored by the National Park Service andwith the assistance of the Preservation Resource Center

12th US/ICOMOS INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Disaster Preparedness, Rapid Response, and

Sustainable Recovery in the 21st Century


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Organized by US/ICOMOS

US National Committee of theInternational Council on Monuments and Sites

Co-sponsored by the National Park Service

Held with the assistance of the Preservation Resource Center

ANDWITH LOGISTICAL SUPPORT FROM

Historic GreenLouisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, & Tourism

Louisiana Department of Historic PreservationLouisiana Historic Building Recovery Grant Program

Louisiana Office of State Parks

Mississippi Development Authority, Department of Archives & HistoryNational Trust for Historic Preservation, New Orleans Field OfficeTulane University School of Architecture

Public Lecture presented in partnership with Historic Green


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Contents

Symposium Theme & Issues Areas ....................................................................................................... 3

Program at a Glance............................................................................................................................... 4

Venues.................................................................................................................................................... 5

Map of the French Quarter ..................................................................................................................... 6

Hotel Monteleone Floor Plan .................................................................................................................. 7

Detailed Program.................................................................................................................................... 8

Pre-Conference Tour: Mississippi Gulf Coast ...................................................................................... 12

Post-Conference Tour: Evergreen Plantation....................................................................................... 14

Abstracts & Speaker Biographies......................................................................................................... 15

Sponsors and Supporters......................................................................................................coming soon


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Program at a Glance

Wednesday, March 11 - Hotel Monteleone (214 Royal Street)

8:30 am Pre-Conference Tour of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

(bus departs from the corner of Royal and Canal Streets)3:30 pm Registration opens

5:30 - 6:30 pm Welcome Reception (Queen Anne Ballroom)

6:30 - 7:30 pm Public Lecture (Queen Anne Ballroom)

Thursday, March 12 - Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom

8:30 am Registration

9:00 am Plenary - Keynote Speakers, Theme Overview, Coffee Break

12:00 noon Lunch on your own

1:00 pm Field Sessionsbuses depart from corner of Royal and Canal Sts5:00 pm Buses return - evening and dinner on your own

6:00 - 8:00 pm Young Professionals Mix n Mingle (location to be announced)

Friday, March 13 - Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom & adjacent rooms

9:00 am Presentations & Coffee Break

12:00 pm Lunch on your own

1:00 - 3:00 pm Workshop: Hague Convention and Section 402 Implications

3:00 pm Breakout Sessionscommittee meetings (see signs for locations)

5:00 pm Adjourn evening and dinner on your own

Saturday, March 14 - Hotel Monteleone

9:00 am Presentations & Coffee Break

12:00 noon Lunch on your own

1:00 pm US/ICOMOS Annual Meeting

2:00 pm Summary Presentations & Discussion

4:00 pm Closing Remarks, Invitation to the (2010) 13th US/ICOMOS

International Symposium

6:00 - 8:00 pm Closing Reception (Keyes-Beauregard House, 1113 Chartres St)

Sunday, Mar 15 - Hotel Monteleone

9:00 am Post-conference tour of Evergreen Plantation

(Bus departs from the corner of Royal and Canal Streets)

3:00 pm Bus will drop passengers at the airport

3:45 pm Bus will return to the Hotel Monteleone

12th US/ICOMOS International Symposium - New Orleans - 2009

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Symposium Theme & Issue Areas

Heritage sites and their stewardship are vital to community identity and cohesiveness, thedevelopment and enhancement of civic life, and fostering and maintaining the democraticideals that are the basis of American society and are a major contribution to efforts in culturaldiplomacy abroad. The participation of U.S. preservationists in the international heritage

community helps promote these ideals overseas and builds strong bridges with other nations,particularly when planning for and providing international disaster preparedness and reliefassistance.

During times of disaster, human need is the first priority, yet within a short time efforts torebuild infrastructure and re-house displaced populations are underway. Large-scale naturaldisasters in recent years include Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and their effects on New Orleansand the Gulf Coast region; earthquakes in Iran and China; the tsunami in Southeast Asia;floods throughout the U.S. Midwest and in northern Europe; and fires at important sites inEngland, in Greece, and in California, among numerous other examples. Given trends inglobal climate change and its effects, such phenomena, and others, are likely to have anincreasingly profound effect on heritage sites.

Heritage preservation is a vital tool for rebuilding the social, economic, and environmentalassets of communities. Without proper planning and preparedness, heritage resources thatmay have survived the initial disasterand that are so vital to rebuilding community andidentitycan be further harmed during rebuilding efforts or through lack of such initiatives. Inaddition to the community-buildingor rebuildingfunctions of heritage sites, manycommunities depend on economic activity derived from heritage tourism, rendering rapidresponse and recovery for heritage sites vital to the economic recovery of communities struckby disasters.

The 2009 US/ICOMOS International Symposium will address recurrent issues of disasterpreparedness, rapid response, and sustainable recovery utilizing examples from across the

U.S. and around the world that have dealt with flood, fire, earthquake, and other natural andhuman-made threats to heritage sites. Presentations will highlight critically-assessed lessonslearned. Specifically, the symposium will include:

A pre-conference tour on the Mississippi Gulf Coast;

Presentations on heritage management in times of disaster; and

Field sessions throughout New Orleans neighborhoods during the conference.

Through symposium activities, participants will gain first-hand exposure to the range of issuesand the challenges for preparedness and response. By assessing existing models andthrough dialogue with presenters, participants will have the opportunity to compare andevaluate practices to find effective and sustainable strategies for use in the U.S. and abroad.

As a result of symposium efforts, US/ICOMOS is confident that this exchange can promote anational model of preparedness, response and recovery for heritage sites. The resulting plantoward developing a model will better protect American heritage and also play a significant rolein translating that protection to aid our friends throughout the world. A final report to beprepared upon completion of the symposium will provide a framework for a disasterpreparedness, rapid response, and sustainable recovery model that can be built upon andimplemented within in the U.S and will assist with U.S. assistance provided overseas.

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Venues

THURSDAY THRU SATURDAY -CONFERENCE PLENARY SESSIONS

Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom

Plenary sessions will be held in the Queen Anne Ballroom on the Mezzaninelevel of the hotel. Breakout sessions on Friday will be held smaller rooms onthe same level as the Queen Anne Ballroom. Signs will be posted to show thelocations of each session.

BUS TOURS Pre and Post-Conference Tours and Thursday Field Sessions

For all tours, buses will leave from and return to the corner of Royal andCanal Streets, one block west of the Hotel Monteleone.

WEDNESDAY -REGISTRATION,WELCOME RECEPTION & PUBLIC LECTURE

Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal Street (in the French Quarter)

Registration will open at 3:30 pm in the hall outside the Queen Anne Ballroom.The Welcome Reception (5:30pm6:30pm) and public lecture (6:30pm7:30pm will be held in the Queen Anne Ballroom on the Mezzanine Level ofthe Hotel Monteleone.

SATURDAY EVENING -

CLOSING RECEPTION

Keyes-Beauregard House, 1113 Charters Street

The Keyes-Beauregard House is located approximately 8 blocks from theHotel Monteleone. Turn right after exiting the main door of the hotel.Walk 7 blocks east and 1 block south (toward the river).

THURSDAY EVENING -YOUNG PROFESSIONALS MIX N MINGLE

6-8 pmlocation to be announced

Hosted by theUS/ICOMOS International Exchange Program and theTulane University School of Architecture


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Bus tours begin and end at thecorner of Royal and Canal Sts

214 Royal Street

Keyes Beauregard House1113 Chartres Street

Map of the French Quarter


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Hotel Monteleone Floor PlanConference activities will be held on

Mezzanine A, upstairs and to the leftas one enters the lobby of the hotel.


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DETAILED PROGRAM

Wednesday March 11, 2009

Pre-Conference Tour of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

8:00 am Bus departs from the corner of Royal Street and Canal Street a block west of the hotelBuses will return to the hotel by 5:00 pm. A box lunch is included.

Registration, Welcome Reception, Public Lecture

3:00 pm Registration open on Mezzanine of Hotel Monteleone (closes at 7:00 pm)

5:30 pm Welcome reception, Queen Anne Ballroom, Hotel Monteleone

6:30 pm Public Lecture (each presentation approximately 30 minutes in length)Tong Mingkang, President, ICOMOS China - Response to Earthquakes in ChinaZoe Kosmidou, Cultural Affairs, Embassy of Greece - Wildfires in Ancient Olympia

Thursday March 12, 2009

Welcome and International Examples

8:00 am Registration open Mezzanine of the Hotel Monteleone (closes at 1:00 pm)

9:00 am Jonathan Poston, US/ICOMOS Symposium Chair, Clemson University/Charleston

9:15 am Patty Gay, Executive Director, Preservation Resource Center, New Orleans

9:40 am Elena Korka (Greece)

Wildfires in Ancient Olympia, Greece: A Threat and a Challenge

10:00 am Rasool Vatendoost (Iran)The desert city of Bam and its Cultural Landscape after the earthquake of December2003: A Risk Preparedness Case

10:20 am John Fidler (United Kingdom)Response to fires at Windsor Castle and elsewhere in England

10:40 am Coffee Break

11:00 am Juana Blanes (Cuba)The protection of the fortifications in the Caribbean and the impacts of hurricanes and

tropical storms. Which will be their future consequences?

11:20 am Richard Ciolek-Torello (USA)Wildfires and the Protection and Rehabilitation of Heritage Sites in Southern California

11:40 pm Question and answer session

12:00 noon Lunch (on your own)


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Field Sessions (3.5 hours)

1:30 pm Buses depart from the corner of Royal Street and Canal Street, one block from the HotelMonteleone. Field tours are scheduled to return to the Hotel Monteleone by 5:00 pm.

Session 1 - Neighborhoods:

Holy Cross (Preservation Resource Center)Lower 9th Ward (Historic Green, Louisiana Department of Historic Preservation)Central City (Tulane University)

Session 2 Site RecoveryJackson Barracks (Heather Knight, Tulane University School of Architecture)St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 (Lindsay Hannah, Goodwin & Associates/UPenn)Long Vue House & Gardens (Patricia ODonnell, Heritage Landscapes)

Note: Session 2 will pass through the Lower 9th Ward allowing participants to seeseveral areas of destruction, rehabilitation, and restoration, but buses will not stop there.

Friday Morning March 13, 2009

Lessons Learned & New Approaches/Emerging Technologies

9:00 am Z. Gul Unal (Turkey)New Approaches and Regimentations in the Cultural Heritage and DisasterManagement Aftermath the 1999 Marmara Earthquake: Istanbul, Turkiye

9:20 am Trinidad Rico (Argentina)Heritage of Disaster or Heritage post-Disaster? A Discussion of Conservation Principlesand Methods in Post-Tsunami Aceh.

9:40 am Craig Bennett (USA)Lessons Learned from Charlestons Hurricane Hugo 20 Years Later

10:00 am Gail Lazarus (USA)The FEMA Historic Preservation Demolition Program in New Orleans in Response toHurricanes Katrina and Rita


10:40 am Eugene Cizek (USA)Emerging Technologies and Disaster Response Planning

11:00 am Andrew Ferrrell (USA)Disaster Protection for Heritage Resources in the Coastal Zone Using Spatial VideoDocumentation

11:20 am Norman Levine, Jim Ward (USA)Disaster Preparedness Considerations in Long Term Planning Efforts: A Case StudyHighlighting Experiences in and around Charleston, SC

11:40 am Frank Matero (USA)Before and After: the foresight and hindsight of survey, analysis, and intervention at St.Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans, LA


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12:00 noon Jim Cook (USA)Preserving Our Past - Linking Preservation/Conservation Professionals with EmergencyResponse and Recovery Operations Following a Disaster

12:20 pm Chris Marrion (USA)Fire and Extreme Event Preparedness and Recovery: Addressing Challenges Through

a Risk-Informed, Performance Based Approach

12:40 pm Question and answer session

1:00 pm Lunch (on your own)

2:00 pm Workshop: Implications of the recent US Ratification of the Hague Convention and arecent court case involving Section 402 of the National Historic Preservation ActSponsored by the Department of Defense

Panelists: Joan Val Albaa (International Committee of the Blue Shield) - invitedCorine Wegener (US Committee of the Blue Shield)Brian Lione (US Department of Defense)John Fowler (Advisory Council on Historic Preservation)

3:30 pm Coffee Break

3:45 5:00 pm Breakout sessions for US/ICOMOS Scientific Committees (see signs for location)

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Existing Frameworks/Preparedness

9:00 am Adriana Scaletti (Peru)National Emergency Preparedness Plan for Cultural Heritage - Peru

9:20 am Aimee Primeaux (USA)COSTEP: Coordinated Statewide Emergency Preparedness

9:40 am Diane Douglas (USA)Floods, Fires, and Earthquakes: Hazard Mitigation Planning to Minimize the AdverseEffects of Natural Disasters on Heritage Resources: Plans developed in response to theDisaster Mitigation Act of 2000

10:00 am Robyn Riddett (International Committee on Risk Preparedness)Heritage Disaster Preparedness in Australia


10:40 am Ann Hitchcock (USA)Protecting Natural and Cultural Heritage Under the US National Response Network

11:00 am Historic Green a New Model for Sustainable Recovery

11:30 am Questions and Discussion

12:00 noon Lunch (on your own)


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1:30 pm US/ICOMOS Annual MeetingElection of new Board membersElection of new FellowsOld & New Business

2:30 pm Jonathan Poston, Symposium Chair, Moderator

Toward New US/International Cooperation in Disaster Preparedness, Rapid Response,and Sustainable Recovery Discussion open to all symposium attendees

4:00 pm Closing Remarks and Adjournment

6:00pm Closing Reception and Auction (ends at 8:00 pm)Beauregard-Keyes House, 1113 Chartres Street

Sunday March 15, 2009

Post-Conference Tour of Evergreen Plantation

9:00 am Bus leaves from corner of Canal and Royal Streets

3:00 pm Bus stops at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

3:45 pm Bus returns to the Hotel Monteleone


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Pre-Conference Tour: Mississippi Gulf Coast(Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Gulfport, Biloxi, Ocean Springs)

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Tour developed and hosted by

Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Gulf Coast Field OfficeRonald W. Miller, Director, and Jeffrey R. Rosenberg, Preservation Specialist and tour coordinator

Tour liaisonPhilip Marshall, US/ICOMOS Board of Trustees

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8:30am Bus departs New Orleans(meet at corner of Royal and Canal Streets)

9:30am Arrive in Waveland Old City Hall site

Only one in 100 structures south of the railroad tracks survived Katrina. Waveland City Hallwas not one of them. The Bay and Waveland area is located where the eye of Katrina passedover.

10:00am Arrive in Bay St. Louis at Washington Avenue

Several MDAH Hurricane Relief Grant for Historic PreservationProjects are in this area. This includes an 1890's shotgun-Lhouse that is now the first structure back from the beach. It hadbeen the seventh back from the beach. Old Town is the oldmain street of Bay St. Louis that is struggling to stay viable ascommerce moves to higher-and-dryer ground.

10:45am Arrive in Pass Christian at Davis Avenue,and drive west on E. Scenic Dr if passable

East Scenic Drive sits on a bluff that is one of the highest spotson the coast between Louisiana and Alabama. Along this stretchof road is the largest group of pre-Katrina beach-front houses onthe Mississippi Sound Coast. The East Scenic Drive roadbedwas washed out by storm surge and is currently a dirt road.

11:30am Arrive in Gulfport at Old Main Library

This 1965 Formalist building has brought up issues of preservingrecent past structures as well as pre-storm memories of thestructure for many citizens. It has also bought up the issue ofappropriate uses for municipal buildings in the velocity zone (V-zone). To the west of this site are several vacant acres that werepart of the Andres Duany plan for Gulfport.

12:00n Arrive at Biloxi or Ocean Springs for box lunch

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Pre-Conference Tour: Mississippi Gulf Coast (continued)

1:30pm Arrive at Point Cadet in Biloxi

Point Cadet is a neighborhood in Biloxi that was decimated byKatrina. The once very tightly-packed neighborhood was inhabitedby the elderly and by immigrants associated with the shrimpingtrade, many of whom cannot afford to rebuild. This area will mostlikely remain vacant until the land is zoned for casino use. Then itwill either be purchased or taken by eminent domain from theowners.

2:30pm Arrive at Louis Sullivan site in Ocean Springs

This site is a small historic district that contained three structuresbuilt by architect Louis Sullivan, one of which was his winterresidence. Though Sullivan's residence was destroyed by Katrina,the Summer Cottage and Guest House he designed forChicagoan James Charnley survived the massive storm surge. Bothstructures are currently undergoing complete restoration.

3:30pm Leave Ocean Springs for New Orleans

5:00pm Arrive in New Orleans (disembark at the corner of Royal and Canal Streets near the hotel)


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Post-Conference Tour: Evergreen Plantation

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Tour developed and hosted byGrover Mouton, Tulane University

Evergreen Plantation is the most intact plantation complex in the South with 37 buildings on theNational Register of Historic Places, including 22 slave cabins. Today, Evergreen Plantation remains aprivately owned, working sugar cane plantation. People live here and work here. Evergreen Plantation islocated on the west bank of the Mississippi River, between New Orleans and Baton Rouge in the Parishof St. John the Baptist, Louisiana.

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9:00amBus departs New Orleans -

(meet at corner of Royal andCanal Streets)

10:30 amArrive at Evergreen Plantation

10:45 amwelcoming remarks & tour

12:00 noonLight brunch served

2:00 pmBus departs Evergreen

Plantation

3:00 pm Bus drops passengers off at the Louis Armstrong International Airport

3:45 pm Bus returns to the Hotel Monteleone

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Abstracts & Speaker Biographies

BENNETT - Craig M. Bennett, Jr. (USA)

Lessons Learned from Charlestons Hurricane Hugo, 20 Years Later

ABSTRACTIn 1989, Hurricane Hugo did significant damage to a number of eighteenth, nineteenth and even twentieth centurystructures in Charleston, South Carolina. While much was learned about the behavior of historic structures subjectto severe wind loads and about the repair of wind and water damage, even more important lessons were learnedabout the legal, financial and human side of disaster recovery. In this presentation, the author discussesimmediately obvious and later discovered hurricane damage. He then focuses on the need to proceed with repairsslowly and carefully with experienced contractors. He emphasizes the need to continue to maintain preservationstandards. He speaks on the finances of recovery, particularly on good approaches to fair insurance settlements.Finally, the author notes that many of the issues which have to be dealt with are not technical preservation issues,but problems in attitudes, in human relations and in preservation education.

BIOThe author is a practicing structural engineer, specializing in historic preservation, and a founding principal of 4SEInc. He was deeply involved in the Hurricane Hugo repair work on a number of historic structures, particularly

churches, in Charleston. He lectures in preservation at Clemson and the College of Charleston and is Chairman ofthe City of Charlestons Board of Architectural Review.

BLANES - Tamara Blanes (Cuba)

The protection of the fortifications in the Caribbean and the impacts of hurricanes and tropical storms. Which willbe their future consequences?

ABSTRACTHurricanes and some other tropical storms are the biggest impacts which harm the Caribbean region every yearfrom june to november. Nowaday they are more intense and devastating as a consequence of climatic changes.Cuba is an example of puttinging into practice protection measures and quick responses against those naturaldisasters. These events are incontrollable, so to save human lives is the first priority. In this country, the fortificationsare included in the plans of protection of the heritage estate and each monument is protected according to thecharacteristics of the places. There are not particular measures for the fortifications located in coastal and portareas. Thanks to their solidity and strength, the fortifications have remained to our days, in spite of natural disasters,environmental pollution and destructive effects of near industrial and port infrastructures. The new millennium bringsback serious natural menaces which a human being is uncapable of stop but can be able to prevent.We ask ourselves: which will be the destiny of the fortifications built in other places of the Caribbean, which are alsomenaced and affected by fierce hurricanes? Which will be the future of that valuable heritage, generally raised oncliffs such as San Salvador de la Punta in Havana City, on large rocks by the sea, such as the Morros in Havana,Santiago de Cuba and Puerto Rico, or constructed on piles, such as the ones at San Fernando, in Cartagena deIndias and San Juan de Ula, in Mexico?

BIOInstitutional affiliate: National Center of Conservation, Restoring and Museology. Member of the Board of Directorsof ICOMOS-CUBA. Coordinator in America of ICOFORT (International Scientific Committee of Fortifications andMilitary Heritage).

CIOLEK-TORELLO - Richard Ciolek-Torello (USA) with Michael K. Lerch

Wildfires and the Protection and Rehabilitation of Heritage Sites in Southern California

ABSTRACTSouthern California has long been notorious for the massive wildfires that have moved rapidly over its chaparral andforest covered hills and mountains. For a variety of reasonspoor wildfire management practices, encroachment ofhuman habitation on sensitive areas, and global warmingwildfires have increased in frequency and scale in thepast decade. It is well known that individual wildfires have burned thousands of square kilometers, destroyedthousands of homes and businesses, forced the evacuation of up to a half million people, and killed scores ofothers. Less well known, however, is the impact of these wildfires on heritage resources, including the direct effects


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of fires themselves, impacts from fire-suppression activities, and long-term effects from the exposure of sensitiveresources to erosion and recreational activities. The types of resources affected include historic buildings and otherproperties, sacred Native American sites, petroglyph sites, and prehistoric quarries and artifact scatters. In thispaper, we discuss actions by federal and state government agencies to protect these resources from fire-relatedimpacts. These actions include the development of plans to identify and protect the most sensitive resources prior tothe outbreak of fires, evaluate damage to resources from fires and fire suppression, and rehabilitate damaged sites.We focus on several projects in which the authors have participated. As the global climate warms, wildfires are

having similar impacts on an increasing scale in Europe and other regions of the world. The lessons learned inprotecting heritage resources in southern California are thus relevant internationally.

BIOInstitutional affiliate: Statistical Research, Ind., Redlands, California.

CIZEK - Eugene Cizek (USA) with Catherine Barrier and Elliott Perkins

ABSTRACTA variety of technological advances have the potential to enhance local and international response to disastersimpacting large collections of historic resources. Tulane University's City Center and the City's Historic DistrictsLandmarks Commission (HDLC) have partnered to produce a plan to maximize the value of survey datadocumenting 40,000 structures gathered after Hurricane Katrina, emerging online technologies, and national andinternational best practices to enhance disaster preparedness and everyday preservation activities. Deficits thathandicapped the Citys response to Hurricane Katrina include:

Outdated survey information and images

Post-disaster volunteer survey data reported in multiple formats

Inadequate information on historic structures, appropriate rehabilitation, and the City permittingprocess targeted for public use

Identified solutions to these deficits include:

Developing historic preservation publications targeting a broader audience

Linking relevant preservation guidelines and rehabilitation information to individual historic structureinformation in the Citys public GIS; and

Integrating survey data and images with emerging web-based open source mapping and 3D imagingplatforms

Integrating survey data with online images provided by the local community and national and internationalvisitors would cost-efficiently facilitate:

Imaging of individual and district resources in 3D to assist in infill planning and design

Updates to historic structure information over time; and Efficient delivery of post-disaster volunteer survey data

This paper will discuss the opportunities identified through this collaborative planning process and the workthat has already begun to implement the plansvision, as well as potential uses of these technologies beyond localdisaster preparedness efforts.

BIOEugene Cizek, PhD, FAIA, and Catherine Barrier, JD, MPS, are with the Tulane University School of Architecture.Elliot Perkins is Director of the New Orleans Historic Districts Landmarks Commission.

COOK - Jim Cook, CEM

Preserving Our PastLinking Preservation/Conservation Professionals with Emergency Response and RecoveryOperations Following a Disaster

ABSTRACTMany city, county and state Emergency Management organizations in the United States use a web-enabled crisisinformation management system in their Emergency Operations Centers to coordinate response and recoveryoperations during and after an emergency or disaster. Two of the primary functions of a crisis informationmanagement system are to collect, display and share the Common Operating Picture (the status of the disasterresponse and recovery operation) and to properly handle Requests for Assistance from organizations involved inthe incident. Damage Assessment and long-term recovery operations are also coordinated through the EmergencyOperations Center using the crisis information management system. Preservation/Conservation Professionals needto understand the information that is maintained and available to them in todays crisis information managementsystem and how that information can be used to identify the area affected by the disaster, identify preservation/


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conservation projects and structures within the affected area, and to communicate and coordinate with local, stateand federal responders to stop or limit the secondary damage that can be caused by emergency response andrecovery organizations. Adding a heritage site specific information gathering and display capability to a crisisinformation management system is simple and free. A best-practice input form and display board can be developedby a committee of Preservation/Conservation Professionals and then shared, at no cost, with EmergencyOperations Centers throughout the country.

BIOJim Cook, CEM, is President of ESi University in Atlanta, Georgia.

DOUGLAS - Diane Douglas (USA)

Floods, Fires, and Earthquakes: Hazard Mitigation Planning to Minimize the Adverse Effects of Natural Disasterson Heritage Resources

ABSTRACTGlobal climate change scenarios indicate that over the next 50 years natural disasters are going to intensify due toglobal warming. Destructive hurricanes and El Nio storms will increase in magnitude and frequency and thesestorms will extend into new geographic areas; eroding shorelines will expand due to rising sea level; and intensifieddrought will fuel the extent and frequency of wildfires. As stewards of the worlds heritage resources, it is critical weidentify significant archaeological sites, monuments, buildings and structures threatened by natural disasters and

develop methods to mitigate the impact of disasters on these resources. This paper discusses several multi-hazardmitigation plans that the author helped develop for local, state and tribal jurisdictions in the U.S. in response to theDisaster Mitigation Act (DMA) of 2000, an amendment to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Act of 1988. DMA 2000 isdesigned to improve planning for, response to, and recovery from natural disasters (e.g. earthquakes, floods,wildfires, high winds, liquefaction, landslides, tsunamis, and tornadoes). The act mandates that cities, counties,special districts, states and tribes identify critical infrastructure and significant heritage resources located withinnatural disaster zones, and develop and implement a plan to minimize the affect of these disasters on theseresources. This paper outlines how a hazard mitigation plan can facilitate predicting the impact of a specific regionaldisaster on significant heritage resources, and provide cultural resource managers the opportunity to identifymitigation measures that can eliminate or minimize these impacts before the disaster occurs.

BIODiane Douglas, PhD, RPA, is with Statistical Research in Redlands, California.

FERRELL - Andrew Ferrell (USA) with Barrett Kennedy

Disaster Protection for Heritage Resources in the Coastal Zone Using Spatial Video Documentation

ABSTRACTThe effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and now Gustav and Ike, have underscored the limitations in traditionalapproaches for documenting and assessing heritage resources in the pre- and post-disaster context of Louisiana'scoastal zone. Traditional paper-based documentation and damage assessment processes are both inefficient andinadequate for measuring and mitigating disaster impacts on widely dispersed heritage resources. This presentationhighlights NCPTTs collaborative work with Louisiana State University to develop techniques for rapiddocumentation of heritage resources using Spatial Video Documentation (SVD) to capture geospatial data andvideo imagery of cultural landscapes and historic communities in Louisiana's high-risk coastal zone.Thepresentation will include an explanation of the SVD approach and examples of current fieldwork in Louisiana. Theauthors contend that rapid, cost-effective documentation processes are fundamental to the protection and

sustainability of heritage resources in the coastal zones around the world, whether at risk from tropical storms/tsunamis, land subsidence/erosion, global warming/rising seas, or other disaster threats.

BIOAndrew Ferrell is Chief, Architecture and Engineering with the National Center for Preservation Technology andTraining. Barrett Kennedy is a Professor with the Louisiana State Universitys School of Architecture.


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HISTORIC GREEN (USA)

Sustainable Preservation in New Orleans Holy Cross Neighborhood and the Lower Ninth Ward

ABSTRACTStaff members from Historic Green will discuss their ongoing work in New Orleans Holy Cross Neighborhood andthe Lower Ninth Ward on what they calling sustainable preservation. For two weeks this March (overlapping with

the US/ICOMOS Symposium), students and young professionals will converge on New Orleans bringing theirenergy and ideas to help the people of the Lower 9 revitalize their community. They are architects, engineers,planners, landscape architects, interior designers and contractors wholl work hand in hand with neighborhoodresidents on their historic houses, parks, playgrounds and community centers.

BIOHistoric Green is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promise of sustainability to create healthier, safer, morelivable communities. Historic Green represents a blending of the past, the present and the future.

HITCHCOCK - Ann Hitchcock (USA)

Protecting Natural and Cultural Heritage under the U.S. National Response Framework

ABSTRACTThis paper will I would focus on the role of the Department of the Interior as the lead agency in coordinating

the Natural and Cultural Resources and Historic Properties Protection part of Emergency Support Function (ESF)#11 of the National Response Plan.

BIOAnn Hitchcock is with the National Park Service, Washington Headquarters office.

LAZARUS - Gail Lazarus (USA)

GIS, Historic Preservation and Disaster Response: The FEMA Historic Preservation Demolition Program in NewOrleans in Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita for the Built Environment

ABSTRACTIn 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita irrevocably changed the built landscape of the Gulf Coast, causing the singlelargest disaster for cultural resources in the United States since the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in1966. In response to the enormity of the disaster and the need to remove buildings that were unsafe, the FederalEmergency Management Agency (FEMA) initiated a program to reimburse the City of New Orleans for demolition ofstorm damaged private properties. FEMA is responsible for reviewing buildings in this program under Section 106 ofthe NHPA. Due to the scope and urgency of the undertaking, FEMA identified that this situation necessitatedcollaboration and new processes. FEMA requested the assistance of the National Park Service and developed aresponse plan in coordination with the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), the City of New Orleans, theHistoric District Landmarks Commission (HDLC), the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the PreservationResource Center (PRC), and other parties. This plan incorporates the use of Geographic Information Systems(GIS). Almost 10,000 buildings have been reviewed in a GIS environment on screen with both FEMA and SHPOrepresentatives sitting side by side. FEMA is recovering architectural items from historic houses prior to demolition.FEMA is compiling GIS based survey to record each structure within eight National Historic Districts based on draftcultural resource data standards developed by the NPS. FEMA will transfer all data for each of these districts anddemolition reviews to both SHPO and HDLC, consisting of tens of thousands of buildings surveyed and digitallyrecorded.

BIOGail Lazarus is Lead for FEMA's Louisiana Transitional Recovery Office Historic Preservation Demolition and Debrisprogram.


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LEVINE - James Levine (USA) and Jim Ward

Disaster Preparedness Considerations in Long Term Planning Efforts: A Case Study Highlighting Experiences inand around Charleston, South Carolina

ABSTRACTThis paper will present the results of a collaboration highlighting current GIS based risk assessment software used

by the FEMA and environmental planning considerations at a landscape scale to assess current sustainabilityissues with the City of Charlestons current development and proposed plans. Our effort will demonstrate theimportance of preplanning recovery to avoid the manmade fiasco after a natural disaster. First, based on theexperiences of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, we will demonstrate the disproportionate effects of disasters on the lessaffluent components of society as well as their implications for the environment. Then, we will consider existingconditions and the elements of the currently proposed plan. Our hypothesis is that efforts to increase populationdensity through new infill development poses significant risks for existing historic areas both during the event and inthe recovery effort. Most specifically, these risks take the form of increased flooding, subsidence, ground waterpollution and surface contamination even before the event, then prolonged infrastructure/utility repair and a sloweddown flood drainage process after the disaster. In addition, we investigate how engineered infrastructure, ratherthan an approach using natural systems, affects the recovery process even in urban areas. Finally, this paper willsuggest a variety of initiatives to prepare for disasters and make recovery more sustainable especially in historicplaces. These suggestions are expected to have a universal audience.

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Norman Levine is Assistant Professor Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the College ofCharleston. James L. Ward is a Landscape Architect and Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation andCommunity Planning at the College of Charleston.

MARRION - Chris Marrion (USA)

Fire and Extreme Event Preparedness and Recovery: Addressing Challenges Through a Risk-Informed,Performance Based Approach

ABSTRACTFires and extreme events are typically unexpected occurrences. They are devastating to our cultural heritage if notaddressed properly. These events result in loss of tangible and intangible aspects of Spirit of Place. In recent yearsfire for instance has induced great losses in not only buildings (La Fenice, Windsor Castle, Troitsky Cathedral, etc.),ships (Cutty Sark), bridges (Kapelbruk bridge in Switzerland) and monuments (Namdaemun gate - Korea). In betterunderstanding the background to these incidences, recurring themes, understanding fire/extreme events and beingable to assess and predict building behaviour to these, we can better prepare for/respond to these disasters andreduce our heritage losses. There exists a risk-informed, performance/holistic approach that allows us to understandobjectives, identify credible events/hazards and develop alternatives on an engineering basis and analyse what canhappen in order to provide risk informed decisions for stakeholders as to how best to protect these structures. Thispresentation will provide an overview of recent disasters, the approach including: identifying goals, hazardscenarios, acceptance criteria, developing/evaluating alternatives, and developing and getting approval from thevarious stakeholders. Case Studies locally and internationally will also be presented as time permits. Thispresentation will also discuss challenges of renovating historic buildings including limiting impact of renovation work/systems on fabric, minimizing obtrusiveness of systems, providing effective/integrated systems, meeting intent oflocal codes, typical hazards and contributory factors in historic structures. Challenges presented by prescriptivecodes and opportunities available via performance codes will also be discussed.

BIOChris Marrion, PE, FSFPE, is a registered Fire Protection Engineer specializing in protecting historic buildings from

disasters. He is Associate Principal of Arup Fire in New York City.

MATERO - Frank Matero (USA) with Lindsay Graham and John Hinchman

Before and After: the foresight and hindsight of survey, analysis, and intervention at St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 inNew Orleans, Louisiana

ABSTRACTDisaster preparedness, rapid response, and sustainable recovery comprise the three legged stool that has come todefine the protection of heritage sites. Despite the knowledge that natural and human-made threats present a realrisk to many cultural resources, efforts to prevent or mitigate damage, even if enacted in advance, are often


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unpredictable in their short and long-term efficacy. The immediate and widespread damage to countless historicproperties due to a lack of preparedness after Hurricane Katrina was only exacerbated by the secondary threatsthat developed over time but proved to be no less damaging or deadly: mold infestation, structural subsidence, anddelayed moisture penetration. In 2001-2003, an innovative conservation program for St. Louis Cemetery No. 1(1789) was initiated through a grant from Save Americas Treasures program. Central to the project was theutilization of digital technology (GIS) as a planning tool to better map, analyze and ultimately manage this andsimilar sites. The project also developed and implemented practical technical solutions to the increasing material

problems of tomb degradation by using the survey as an assessment tool for over 750 tombs to identify emergencyconditions and implement treatments for short-and long-term performance evaluation. Two years later, this programwas tested in the extreme when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. As in years past, the cemeteries flooded,being located in the low-lying areas of the city. A follow-up assessment of the cemetery revealed highly instructivelessons in the value of quantitative survey, phased priority interventions based on severity of condition (triage), andsurprisingly the durability of lime-based masonry treatments and the failure of modern high performance materials.This paper will illustrate with concrete examples the benefits of integrated quantitative survey to executemanagement plans, assess damage and evaluate intervention efficacy.

BIOFrank Matero is a Professor in the University of Pennsylvanias School of Architecture.

PRIMEAUX - Aime Primeaux (USA)

COSTEP: Coordinated Statewide Emergency Preparedness

ABSTRACTCOSTEP: Coordinated Statewide Emergency Preparedness is an innovative planning tool to help states create astatewide disaster plan for cultural collections and essential records. By providing a blueprint for preparing for area-wide disasters and building alliances between cultural institutions and emergency management agencies, COSTEPfosters the cooperation and communication that is so vital when cultural resources are imperiled. COSTEP issuccessfully employed in three states: Massachusetts, New Mexico, and New York. The framework focuses on the

process of creating a statewide disaster plan. Key personnel from both the cultural and emergency managementcommunities convene to address important topics in a series of meetings. Designed to be flexible and adaptable,COSTEP provides guidance on how to establish key relationships and goals, analyze risk, prepare for response,create a statewide disaster plan, and train stakeholders how to create a corrective action program after exercisingthe plan. Started in 2007 by a grant from IMLS, COSTEP is managed by the Northeast Document ConservationCenter (NEDCC). As the grant moves into its last year, NEDCC continues to develop ways to build upon andcomplement other heritage projects such as Heritage PreservationsAlliance for Response forums and the Councilof State Archivists IPER (Intergovernmental Preparedness for Essential Records) project. The establishment of acultural resource/emergency management partnership will ensure that when a disaster strikes, cooperation andcollaboration will lead to the successful recovery of cultural property.

BIOAime Primeaux is Project Manager for COSTEP in Arlington, Virginia.

RICO - Trinidad Rico (USA and Argentina)

Heritage of Disaster or Heritage post-Disaster? A Discussion of Conservation Principles and Methods in Post-Tsunami Aceh

ABSTRACTThere are two different approaches to the relationship between heritage and disasters. On one hand, culturalheritage may provide continuity, both historically and emotionally, preserving a cultural identity and lifestyle as it was

before the disaster. On the other, cultural heritage may become the means for transmitting a disaster as somethingthat will become a historically meaningful event for a place. But how does conservation management negotiatethese two roles of cultural heritage in a way that represents cultural identity adequately? It is important to review thecontributions from current conservation principles and planning methods to address the complexities of post-disaster heritage, in order to outline potential methodological directions that are more socially and culturallysustainable. In this paper I will discuss this complex situation with reference to the process of rehabilitation in BandaAceh, Indonesia. Almost 5 years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami affected this region a variety of approaches tocultural preservation can be seen in the built environment. Interestingly, many of these monuments are notassociated with cultural heritage as we discuss it more frequently: they do nothave a relationship to the deep past,instead they represent a new identity in Aceh, now referred to as The Tsunami City. Is there a place in currentconservation theory and practice to accommodate this type of cultural heritage?

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BIOTrinidad Rico is a Doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University.

UNAL - Z. Gul Unal (Turkey)

New Approaches and Regimentations in the Cultural Heritage and Disaster Management Aftermath the 1999

Marmara Earthquake: Istanbul Turkiye Case Study

ABSTRACTOfficially defined as the Marmara Earthquake, the disaster happened in the first hours of August 17th, 1999; havingcaused a total death of 17,840 and an approximate casualty total of 43,530 again in accordance with the officialrecords. Over 77,000 buildings have heavily been damaged. The estimated figure for the economic losses werearound 10-15 billion USD. Istanbul has been hit by the disaster off its guard for actually which it has somehow beenexpecting. The Historical Peninsula of Istanbul, being listed on the World Heritage List since 1985, has been one ofthe critical areas highly affected. 10% of the buildings affected by the Marmara Quake were located in the HistoricalPeninsula and in comparison with the span of the earthquake, the damage rate within the Historical Peninsula wasconsidered to be high. The state of chaos aftermath the 1999 Earthquake was the most explicit indicator of theincompetence of the Disaster Management. As a consequence of the studies carried out after the earthquake, vitalprojects intended to minimize the volume of loss in such a situation*, like Istanbul Seismic Risk Mitigation andEmergency Preparedness Project, Earthquake Master Action plan of Ista. In April of 2008, a law draft outlining a re-organization within some of the national institutions has been offered to the Turkish National Grand Assembly.

Within this law draft, the existing three national institutions related with the disasters are suggested to be unitedunder the Prime Ministry with the name of The Disaster and Emergency Management Division. This study intends todiscuss the methods to be used and share the experiences in relation with the following: The place of the topicsrelated with the historical buildings and the span of heritage created by them which are the most fragile andvulnerable building type exposed to that risk within the settlement areas that we are responsible to preserve in apossible disaster to happen in Istanbul.

BIOZ. Gul Unal is with the Faculty of Architecture, Restoration Department, Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul.


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