Abstract:

The main principle for the conservation of cultural heritage is to identify the conditions for retarding decay and evaluate its existing state. Direct and indirect conservation techniques and their materials are determined from this research. Interventions may vary from periodical maintenance to reconstruction in different grades depending on the object’s age and state of conservation. Each project has to be handled as a case study on its own with unique solutions against the deterioration medium. This overview refers to an academic and specialized teamwork to establish the methodology. The scientific document including whole testing techniques for the characterization of the materials and the deterioration types, causes and the decay processes, test programmes for these purposes, test results with recommended implementation methods and correlating these with each other is named as ‘Conservation Project’. This project, developed by an interdisciplinary work, mainly leads and supports the Documentation, Diagnosis and Treatment. Documentation refers to periodical, material and pathological analyses that are preferred to be carried out simultaneously with the laboratory work after surveying. Documentation studies include updating the ‘archive’ with additional sketches, drawings and photographs during the site-work and sharing the experiences via some publications after the treatment either.In Diagnosis, the relevant scientific investigation is described. Steps of the process are sampling with standard techniques and experimental work programmes for various kinds of materials such as stone, brick, tile, mortar, plaster, painted decoration, traditional paint, metal or timber. After the comparative evaluation of the results, the essential data including the constervation materials and methodologies for the treatments is determined.Implementation involves the restoration and conservation activities based on the scientific data obtained from the previous studies. Treatments such as cleaning, consolidation, surface protection and reintegration should be thoroughly defined in the Report.It’s briefly stated in the article that Conservation Report is the basic scientific outline of the interventions and a reference document for the inspections, as it defines the processes clearly. Reports describing the pros and cons of the treatments also take place in scientific literature to serve either educational activities or further conservation studies

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