CEN/TC 346

Conservation of Cultural Heritage

EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION
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CEN/TC 346 N 452

April 2014

TO NOTE: X

SUBJECT/TITLE

Draft minutes of the eleventh meeting of CEN/TC 346, London, 10th 11th April, 2014

SITUATION/BACKGROUND

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PROPOSAL / ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN

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CEN/TC 346 N. 452

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22nd April, 2014

Draft minutes of the eleventh meeting of

CEN/TC 346 Conservation of Cultural Heritage, held on 10th 11th April, 2014 - London
1 Opening of the meeting
Mr Vasco FASSINA, Chairman of CEN/TC 346, welcomed the delegates.
The Chairman thanked University College London and Tim Yates for hosting and organising the meeting in
London.
2 Roll call of delegates and identification of the head of delegation
Delegates introduced themselves giving details of the activity they carried out at national level, and signed
the attendance list (see ANNEX 1). Heads of delegation were identified.
CEN Members represented in the meeting were: Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway,
Sweden, UK.
Apologizing from:
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Mr. Dario Camuffo

Mr. Nicola Macchioni
Mr. Jasper Stub Johnsen
Mrs Marte Boro
Mr Jap van Der Burgh
Mrs Katrin Bjerhag

3 Adoption of the agenda

The Agenda was adopted with the following modifications/additions:

The Swedish proposals in the doc. CEN/TC 346 N 450 will be discussed at point "Any other
business".

4 Approval of the Minutes of the tenth meeting of CEN/TC 346, Oslo 2013-04-10/11
The minutes of the tenth meeting of CEN/TC 346 were approved.
5 Appointment of the decision committee
The decision committee was appointed as follows:
Mr Fabrizio TACCA (CEN/TC 346 Secretary)
Mr Jean-Claude HESLING (AFNOR)
Mrs Siglinde Acker (DIN)
Mr Tim Yates (BSI)
6 Re-appointment of Chairperson Mr. VascoFassina

Decision N 148 (1) was taken.

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7 Report of CEN/TC 346 secretariat: updating of CEN/TC 346 Work Programme

Mr TACCA pointed out the main updates of the work programme in the document N. 432:

WI 00346001 prEN 16581: the decision after CEN Enquiry closed on 2014-03-28 with a positive
outcome. The Final Draft will be sent to CEN by the end of this week for the submission to FV.
WI 00346019 CEN/TS 16163: will be published on 2014-04-30 (mistake in figure A.3 to be
corrected)
WI 00346026 FprEN 16455: Formal Vote will start on 2014-04-24 and will end on 2014-06-24
WI 00346027 prEN 16515: Draft for Formal Vote + Resolution of comments needed by TC 346
Secretariat by May 2014
WI 00346028 "Integrated Pest Management (IPM)": Draft for CEN Enquiry needed by TC 346
Secretariat by May 2014
WI 00346034 prEN 16682: CEN Enquiry closed on 2014-03-03
WI 00346042 "Laser cleaning technique for cultural heritage": Draft for CEN Enquiry in preparation
by TC 346 Secretariat.

8 Report of the Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 1 General methodologies and terminology on the
activity carried out
Mr APOLLONIA Convenor of WG 1 informed the TC about the activity carried out by the working group (see
Doc. CEN/TC 346 N 437).
Mr. Apollonia explained that the document on "Lexicon of alteration" is almost ready. There are only some
issues to define:
more pictures are needed because not all the materials are covered;
possible specific terms to be included in the text ?
Mrs VEST was of the opinion that is time to sum up the situation and activate the work item in order to
submit it to the CEN Enquiry.
Mr LEIGH wondered if some drawings, together with the pictures, could be useful in order to identify the
alterations.
CEN/TC 346/WG 1 was adopted.
9 Report of the Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 2 Characterisation and analysis of
porous inorganic materials constituting cultural heritage on the activity carried out

Mr YATES Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 2, informed the TC about the activity carried out by the working
group (see Doc. CEN/TC 346/N 438).

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Mr AGUILLA CUECO informed about the EWAGLOS initiative:

The EwaGlos Project
Starting Point
The mobility of conservation specialists in Europe and the tenders of
contracts on the European level are increasing at the same speed as
the publics interest in their cultural heritage and the preservation
measures shown e.g. at the European Heritage Days. But
communication is still difficult because the conservation terminology is
not yet standardised in Europe and the dissemination to the general
population not sufficient.
Objectives
As a result, this consortium of seven institutions from seven different
European countries with different languages and cultural heritage supported by associated partners and external experts with another
four European languages - intends to develop a richly illustrated
glossary, including informative photos and sketches: concise texts and
demonstrative illustrations are designed to help readers quickly grasp
and understand each term, even across language barriers. The main
activities during the 24 months duration will be to clarify the
terminology of the conservation of wall painting and architectonic
surfaces among Europe conservation and restoration specialists, to get
an excellent translation of the terminology.
The languages will be:
English, French, German, Croatian, Italian, Turkish, Spanish,
Romanian, and probably - provided as a voluntary contribution by the
associated partners and experts - Hungarian, Polish and Bulgarian.
In the end, the glossary will be available to the general public as an
inexpensive, not-for profit print publication and as a free download on
the internet.
Reason for specification
The project specialises in wall paintings and architectonic surfaces
because this terminology is of great significance for the most part of
our heritage, i. e. historic buildings, their surfaces and decorations: a
completely different sector compared with museums and collections.
Duration: October 2013 to September 2015
In the frame of CULTURE PROGRAMME 2007-2013,
Strand 1.2.1: Co-operation measures

All the members agreed that the outcome of this Project could be useful for CEN/TC 346/WG 2 activity.
CEN/TC 346/WG 2 report was adopted.
10 Report of the Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 3 Evaluation of methods and products
for conservation works on porous inorganic materials constituting cultural heritage on
the activity carried out
Mr FASSINA Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 3, informed the TC about the activity carried out by the working
group (see Doc. CEN/TC 346/N 439).

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Mr LEIGH, speaking about the importance of the standard for cleaning, underlined the need of a "special
judgement skills of the professionals" involved in this activity. Standards have to say that only professional
people can handle some procedures.
We need a sentence to put in the standard.
Mr TRUDSOE proposed the wording from EN 1990 Eurocodes:
()
Section 2 Requirements
2.1 Basic requirements
(7) The provisions of Section 2 should be interpreted on the basis that due skill and care
appropriate to the circumstances is exercised in the design, based on such knowledge
and good practice as is generally available at the time that the design of the structure is
carried out.
()
CEN/TC 346/WG 3 report was adopted
11 Report of the Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 4 Protection of collections on the activity
carried out
Mr. TRUDSOE secretary of CEN/TC 346/WG4, informed the TC about the activity carried out by the working
group (see Doc. CEN/TC 346/N 440).
Mr. TRUDSOE informed on the possible lack of funding for the support of WG 4 secretariat in the near
future.
CEN/TC 346/WG 4 report was adopted.
12 Report of the Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 5 Packing and transport on the activity
carried out
Mrs Anne DE WALLENS, Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG5, informed the TC about the activity carried out by
the working group (see Doc. CEN/TC 346/N 441).
CEN/TC 346/WG 5 report was adopted.
13 Report of the Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 6 Exhibition lighting of cultural heritage Joint Working Group between CEN/TC 346 and CEN/TC 169 on the activity carried
Out
Mr FASSINA gave details of the activity of the WG.
(See Doc. CEN/TC 346/N 442)
Mr FASSINA reported that CAMUFFO considered this collaboration with CEN/TC 169 very fruitful.
CEN/TC 346/WG 6 report was adopted.
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14 Report of the Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 7 Specifying and measuring

Indoor/outdoor climate on the activity carried out
Mr FASSINA updated the delegates on the activity of the working group. (See Doc. CEN/TC 346/N 443)
CEN/TC 346/WG 7 report was adopted
15 Report of the Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 8 Energy efficiency of historic buildings
on the activity carried out
Mr DUUS, secretary of CEN/TC 346/WG 8, informed the TC about the activity carried out by the working
group (see Doc. CEN/TC 346/N 444).
CEN/TC 346/WG 8 report was adopted.
WG 8 asked to CEN/TC Secretariat to activate the PRE-WI 00346033 "Conservation of Cultural Heritage
Guidelines for improving energy performance of historically, architecturally or culturally valuable buildings",
in order to submit the draft to CEN Enquiry.

Decision N 149 (2) was taken.

16 Report of the Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 9 Waterlogged wood on the activity
carried out
Mr FIORAVANTI informed about the activity carried out by the working group (see Doc. CEN/TC 346 N 445)
CEN/TC 346/WG 9 report was adopted.
17 Report of the Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 10 Historic timber structures on the
activity carried out
Mr FIORAVANTI, on behalf of Mr MACCHIONI, explained the works done by the WG in its first year of
activity (See Doc. CEN/TC 346 N 446).
CEN/TC 346/WG 10 report was adopted.
See the presentation in ANNEX 2.
18 Report of the Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 11 Conservation process on the activity
carried out
Mr GETZ Convenor of CEN/TC 346/WG 11 informed about the activity carried out by the working group
(see Doc. CEN/TC 346/N 447).

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Mr GETZ updated the situation of WI 00346041 regarding the "Framework of the conservation process":

Annex added regarding "how to use the standard"

after May WG 11 will ask TC 346 to activate the PRE-WI changing the deliverable from "TS" to "EN";
another Annex regarding the 1st part of the "Documentation" could be added to the draft.

Mr GETZ remembered that WG 11 has to develop a feasibility study on "tendering".

CEN/TC 346/WG 11 report was adopted.
19 Conclusions of these reports and actions to be taken by CEN/TC 346
The reports of the different WGs were adopted and the decisions were taken according to the requests of
the working groups. See document CEN/TC 346 N 451 Decisions taken during the eleventh meeting of
CEN/TC 346 Conservation of Cultural Heritage on 10/11 April, 2014.
19 Any other business
19.1 Revision of CEN/TC 346 Business Plan
Mr TACCA will circulate a request for the updating of Business Plan, remembering the rules for the proposal
of new activities decided by TC 346. (the BP adopted and valid from 2012 to 2015 is the doc. CEN/TC 346 N
358)
The target date for the reply will be 6 months from the circulation of the request of possible new proposals.
The new proposals can come from NSB, WGs and liaison members.
After the receipt of the proposals it will be evaluated the possibility to set up (or not) a Task Group for the
revision of the Business Plan.
19.2 Proposal to start a new working group to work on standards for basic requirements and
methods for investigating paint layers and other surfaces in the built heritage
TC 346 members agreed to give a task to Swedish delegation in order to prepare a proposal for a possible
creation of a new working group on basic requirements and methods for investigating paint layers and other
surfaces in the built heritage. This proposal should not present any overlap with the already
existing WGs, in particular with WG2. This proposal should be submitted to TC 346 in 6 months' time.
A final decision will be taken during next TC 346 Plenary meeting.
19.3 Communication of CEN activities of National mirror organisations
TC 346 members agreed to have a re-current point in the draft agenda of the plenary meeting regarding the
activities of the national mirror committees.
20 Approval of the decisions
The decisions listed in CEN/TC 346 N. 451 were prepared by Mr. TACCA in agreement with the Decision
Committee appointed at item 5: the decisions N. 148/2014 (1), 149/2014 (2) were approved by unanimity.
21 Preparation of the next meeting (date, venue, home work)
Next meeting will be held in Munich on 28th 29th April, 2015
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22 Closure of the meeting

The Chairman thanked the delegates present at the meeting for their active co-operation and for the
excellent job carried out.
The meeting was closed on 10th April, 2014 at 5.30 p.m.

MarcoFioravanti
UNI
University ofFlorence
marco.fioravanti@unifi.it

REPORTOFACTIVITIES
Countriesinvolved:DK,SE,DE,NW,UK,GR,IT,FI
(Experts)
FR,KR,CZ,LX,PL,BE,TR(Centralizedmembers)
May15,2013k.O.Meeting,Istanbul(Turkey)in
conjunctionwithWOAMConference.
December1011,Firstmeeting,Bremenharven
(Germany)
February1314,2014 Secondmeeting,Florence
(Italy)

PreadoptedWorkItems
1)GuidelinesforManagementof
WaterloggedWoodinTerrestrialSites
ofArchaeologicalSignificance.
2) CharacterizationoftheConditionof
WaterloggedWood.

MARINE ENVIRONMENT

TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT

IN SITU PRESERVATION

EXCAVATION

RESTORATION
LONG TERM PRESERVATION

GUIDELINESFORMANAGEMENTOFWATERLOGGEDWOODON
TERRESTRIALSITESOFARCHAEOLOGICALSIGNIFICANCE

Index
Introduction
1.Scope
2.NormativeReference
3.Termofreference
4. Guidelinesformanagementofwaterlogged
archaeologicalwood
5Reference/Bibliography
6Annexes(samplerecordsheet

GUIDELINESFORMANAGEMENTOFWATERLOGGEDWOODON
TERRESTRIALSITESOFARCHAEOLOGICALSIGNIFICANCE
4. Guidelinesformanagementofwaterloggedarchaeological
wood
4.1Projectplanning(includingfundsraising,professionals
advicesandservices,storageplaceandconservationfacilities)
4.2.Managementandprotectiononsiteduringexcavation
4.2.1ExcavationTechniques
4.3Recording,labelling
4.4Lifting
4.4.1Raising/Liftingsmallorfragilefinds
4.4.2Liftingoflargeorcomplexfinds

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TERRESTRIALSITESOFARCHAEOLOGICALSIGNIFICANCE

4.5Managementofthefindsafterliftingfromthe
field
4.5.1Cataloging andPackaging(shorttermandlong
termpackaging)
4.5.2Temporarystorageandhandlinginthefield
4.6Transportationanddeposition
4.6.1Small,fragmentaryobjects
4.6.2Largeobject

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WATERLOGGEDWOOD

Index

Introduction
1.Scope
2.NormativeReference
3.Termofreference
4.Aimofcharacterization
5Testingandsamplingstrategies
6.Woodcharacterization
Datareporting?
Bibliography

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WATERLOGGEDWOOD

6.Woodcharacterization
6.1Determinationofwoodspecie
6.2.Degradationprofile
6.2.1PhysicalandMechanicalproperties
6.2.1.1Density
6.2.1.2Moisturecontent
6.2.1.3Mechanicalproperties

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WATERLOGGEDWOOD

6.2.2Biologicaldegradation
6.2.2.1Macroorganisms(Insects,Shipworms)
6.2.2.2Microorganisms(Fungi,Bacteria)

6.2.3Chemicalproperties
6.2.3.1Organic(cellulose,lignin,hemicelluloses,
extractives)
6.2.3.2Inorganic(ashcontent,iron,sulphuretc.)

6.2.4Surfacetreatment,contamination,
incrostation

PLANNEDACTIVITIES
Meetingalready scheduled
Goteborg (SE)June 1113,2014
Finalising thedocument onGUIDELINESFOR
MANAGEMENTOFWATERLOGGEDWOODONTERRESTRIAL
SITESOFARCHAEOLOGICALSIGNIFICANCEandopening

oftheworkitem.
ImprovingthedraftCHARACTERIZATIONOFTHE
CONDITIONOFWATERLOGGEDWOOD