Unfortunately, there is no direct English translation of our German subject, Restaurierungswissenschaften, so we call it building preservation science. Our work is in the field of heritage sciences. So we are looking mainly at buildings. Our questions concern, for example, the historic condition of a building, the historic inventory, such as a painting on the wall or the mortar that was used to create the building, and all the materials related to our research. We work with almost any material in the building’s composition.
Paul Bellendorf, University of Bamberg, on materials and building preservation sciences and the current challenges facing heritage sciences









