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Subject: Kadir Has University and the Rehabilitation of Fener and Balat Programme

Time: Friday 20th June 2003, 2 - 5 p.m.

Place: Kadir Has University, Fatih, Istanbul

International Workshop On The Investigation And Conservation Of Historic Buildings And Structures

Speakers:
Dr Dina D'Ayala, University of Bath
A graduate of the Universita' di Roma la Sapienza, Italy, Dr D'Ayala is the developer of a procedure called FaMIVE for the failure mechanism identification and vulnerability evaluation of historic buildings in earthquake-prone areas. The procedure has been successfully applied to Alfama District, Lisbon, Portugal, Nocera Umbria, Italy, and Offida, Marche, Italy following the Umbria-Marche earthquake of 1997. It has also been applied more recently to Lalitpur, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, and in will shortly form part of a study on buildings in Vittorio Veneto, Italy. She has direct experience of the seismicity of the North Anatolian fault, and has extensively studied the effect of the Kocaeli earthquake of 1999, and is the editor of a volume on the effect of the earthquake.

Dr John Hurd, John Hurd Conservation
President-Elect of the Earth Structures Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), John Hurd is a conservator with a Higher Diploma in Conservation Science from Lincoln College of Arts. He is currently involved with conservation projects funded by the UNESCO/Japan Trust Fund in Otrar, Kazakhstan, and Krashnaya Rechka, Kyrgyzstan, and has also worked in Afghanistan, China, Nepal, Oman and the Caucasus. He has a particular interest in the performance of materials and their appropriateness in conservation and is a Fellow of the Department of Archaeology (Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies), University of York.

Dr David Yeomans, University of Liverpool
Dr Yeomans is Chairman of the U.K. Wood Committee of ICOMOS and U.K. representative on the ICOMOS International Structures Committee. In addition to his academic work in the UK, he has also run conservation training programmes in the U.S.A., Middle East and Asia. He has extensive experience in the historical study and analysis of traditional buildings, is a historian of building technology and has published books and numerous papers on these subjects. He has worked as a UNESCO expert in Nepal and Turkey and was involved in the feasibility study for the Rehabilitation of Fener and Balat Programme.

Local organisers: Kemal Yelekçi, Vice Rector, Kadir Has University
Senem Kadioğlu, Fatih Municipality
David Michelmore, International Co-Director, Fener-Balat Programme