This study aims to identify the key factors that influence library users' satisfaction with the
indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in a contemporary university library, focusing on both …

Climate change will affect the indoor temperature of historic buildings, impacting the
preservation of artworks and the thermal comfort of users, and possibly leading to increased …

The conservation of historic libraries can be referred towards both the ancient book
collections and the buildings themselves. Heritage collections made of paper are threaten …

The conservation and safeguarding of historic buildings, and of everything that is housed
within them, represents a challenge whose value is currently shared at a world level. The …

The good conservation of cultural patrimony depends on the quality of the indoor
environment where collections and artifacts are kept, being suspended particles one of the …

Fungi have always posed an unquestionable threat to heritage collections worldwide. Now,
in a future of climate change, biological risk factors may have to be considered even more …

This paper aims to illustrate and give an interpretation of the results emerged from a pilot
activity developed within the ROCK project, by the Department of Architecture of the …

The preservation of historic churches and their most precious artefacts usually includes a
monitoring campaign of the indoor microclimate conditions. This research presents the …

The correct preservation of old and rare books in libraries needs suitable values of
temperature and relative humidity. This paper shows the hygrothermal data acquired in a …

In order to ensure the proper conservation of the book heritage, the hygrothermal conditions
of the rooms where the books are stored must respect precise ranges of temperature and …