IMPACT

Project ID: EVK4-CT-2000-00031

Funded under: FP5-EESD

Innovative modelling of museum pollution and conservation thresholds (IMPACT)

From 2000-12-01 to 2004-02-29

Project details
Total cost: Topic(s):

EUR 1 082 625 1.1.4.-4. - Key action City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage

EU contribution: Funding scheme:

EUR 830 376 CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinated in:
United Kingdom

Objective

This project aims to develop a software tool to assist museums in dealing with the problem of pollutant damage to indoor
cultural heritage. The software will include a model of pollutant behaviour in museum buildings that will predict indoor
concentrations from outdoor concentrations and building parameters. An expert systems-type component will give Information
on object damage likely to be caused by the predicted pollutant concentration, suggest possible remedial strategies and
compare outcomes of different strategies. Underpinning the software tool is a deposition based steady state model of pollutant
behaviour indoors. This will use deposition velocity data measured in the project for gases such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen
dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde and hydrogen sulphide on building fabric and finishes and object materials.

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON United Kingdom

Gower Street, Torrington Place Site 19
WC1E 6BT London
United Kingdom
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Administrative contact: Ilse VICKERS

Participants

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EMCEL FILTERS LTD United Kingdom
Blatchford Road
RH13 5RA HORSHAM
United Kingdom
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Administrative contact: Barry KEMP

NATIONAL MUSEUM IN KRAKOW Poland

Al. 3 Maja 1
30 062 KRAKOW
Poland
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Administrative contact: Zofia GOLUBIEW

NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH Norway

Instituttveien 18
2027 KJELLER
Norway
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Administrative contact: Paal BERG

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA United Kingdom

University Plain
NORWICH
United Kingdom
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Administrative contact: Tracy MOULTON

Subjects

Economic Aspects - Environmental Protection - Social sciences and humanities - Transport - Waste Management

Last updated on 2005-07-28

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