Lime-based mortars are flexible and pervious, allowing for shifts in older foundations and structures and facilitating the movement of moisture in and out walls. This malleability is paramount to ...

buildings, will run into millions of pounds, much of it from grants, according to heritage experts. In some cases, restoration carried out within the past 20 years is having to be stripped out because ...

Plaster made from lime is environment-friendly, repairable and sustainable. Despite this, lime plaster on historic buildings has been replaced in modern times by plaster containing Portland cement -- ...

There are two basic types of brick: place bricks are used on internal walls and the inner faces of external walls while stock bricks, which are of better quality, are used for facing work. Most bricks ...

Concrete is everywhere: from roads, to skyscrapers, to the foundations of the building you may be reading this in. It is the ...

In a city where heritage buildings like the Town Hall and the natmandir of Shovabazar Rajbati have been “restored” with cement, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi is setting an example on how old buildings ...