|
|
Register Now for IPTW 2010: the 14th annual International Preservation Trades Workshop
Frankfort, Kentucky - October 21-23, 2010
Register by September 15th to receive the Early Registration Discount!
After the success of the 2009 Preservation Rendezvous, PTN will be returning to Frankfort, Kentucky, October 21-23, 2010 for IPTW 2010 to be held in partnership with the Kentucky Heritage Council, The Frankfort/Franklin County Tourist & Convention Bureau and the Frankfort Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites. Frankfort is a beautiful historic town with lots of small shops and places to eat all within comfortable walking distance of the main event venue at the Frankfort Convention Center.
IPTW 2010 will provide unique opportunities for preservation tradespeople, architects, preservation organization staff members, historic property stewards, state and local government employees, preservation students, and homeowners to gain understanding of the preservation trades, and create exchanges between preservation professionals and the public through interactive demonstrations, learning
sessions, and one-on-one discussions. The International Preservation Trades Workshop is the only annual event in North American which brings the foremost practitioners of the traditional trades together in a single venue dedicated to sharing the skills and knowledge of all of the trades employed in conservation of the built environment. <read more>
|
Register Now for Pre-IPTW Workshops on Log Building Restoration and Gravestone Preservation
Maximize your IPTW experience by registering for one of two pre-conference workshops. Jonathan Appell will teach a Gravestone Preservation Workshop at historic Frankfort Cemetery, October 19-20. Participants may register for one or both days of hands on interactive conservation and repair techniques. Frankfort Cemetery, founded in 1844, was designed by Scottish landscape architect Robert Carmichael, and modeled on Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. It is the final resting place of Daniel Boone and other famous Americans including seventeen Kentucky governors. The Historic Log Building Restoration Workshop, October 13-20, 2010 will focus on the process of authentically restoring and reconstructing a c.1825 log meat house documented and deconstructed during the 2009 Kentucky Preservation Rendezvous. The workshop, which begins on October 13th, one week before IPTW 2010 and runs through Wednesday October 20th, will again be lead by Jim Houston and Rudy Christian plus two other log restoration specialists and will focus on teaching hewing and log notching, laying out and cutting step lapped rafter seats plus repair techniques for damaged wall logs. We will also have a portable sawmill on site to fabricate new rafter and roof sheathing boards which will be installed when the restacked walls are completed. Attendees will have the option of free rustic camping at Cove Spring or taking advantage of discounted hotel room rates at the Capital Plaza Hotel or any number of local hotels and bed and
breakfasts. <read more>
Register to attend both IPTW 2010 and the Historic Log Building Restoration Workshop and receive a $100 discount on the workshop registration fee. Register by September 15th and save even more with the Early Registration discount.
IPTW 2010 Sessions and Demonstrators
View the preliminary list of IPTW 2010 Sessions and Demonstrators here. Sessions are being added regularly so check this site often for updates.
<read more>
Call for Demonstration and Session Proposals
We are still accepting demonstration and session proposals for this event. Please review the demonstrator guidelines before submitting a proposal form. Being a demonstrator or presenter at an IPTW or other PTN event or workshop is a great way to share your skills and knowledge and increase your visibility as a leader in the preservation trades.
IPTW 2010 Travel and Lodging
The conference hotel for IPTW 2010 is the Capital Plaza Hotel located in Historic Downtown Frankfort and adjacent to the Frankfort Convention Center the venue for IPTW 2010. Be sure to reserve your room early to receive the IPTW discount of $79 per night. To receive the special room rate call the Capital Plaza Hotel at 502-227-5100 and request the "Preservation Trades Network" rate.
Free rustic camping is available at Cove Spring Park for workshop participants and those attending IPTW 2010. Historic downtown Frankfort and all IPTW 2010 sessions and events are only minutes away. Maps, directions and event venues <here>
Shelburne Farms Timber Frame Workshop
June 7-11, 2010 - Shelburne, Vermont
This summer the Preservation Trades Network partnered with the Timber Framers Guild to hold our second timber frame workshop the week of June 7-11 at beautiful Shelburne Farms, a membership-supported, nonprofit environmental education center and National Historic Landmark on the shores of Lake Champlain in Shelburne, Vermont. Thie workshop focused on historic restoration and repair techniques. The restoration and repair workshop was taught by Jan Lewandoski, a world renowned master timber framer. Additionally day one of the workshop (June 7th) featureed lectures and demonstrations by wood scientist Ron Anthony and structural engineer David C. Fischetti.
The program venue was the Victorian “Breeding Barn” at Shelburne Farm. It was built from 1889 to 1891 and at the time was said to be the largest open span timber structure in America. The architect was Robert Henderson Robertson. The structure has a footprint of 107’ x 418’ and includes some of the most elegant and truly ambitious trusses ever incorporated in an agricultural structure. Shelburne Farms was created as a model agricultural estate in 1886 by William Seward and Lila Vanderbilt Webb. In 1972, it became an educational nonprofit featuring nearly 400 acres of woodlands which are Green Certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, and a grass-based dairy operation with 125 purebred, registered Brown Swiss cows. Milk produced on the farm is transformed into award-winning farmhouse cheddar. The mission of Shelburne Farms is to cultivate a conservation ethic by practicing rural land uses that are environmentally, economically and culturally sustainable. <learn more>
The workshop covered:
- The Breeding Barn at Shelburne Farms as a case-study for the investigation, analysis, and repair of historic timber buildings
- Wood investigation techniques for historic buildings, including resistance drilling, digital radioscopy, and remote visual inspection
- Historic and current techniques for modeling and analysis of timber frames
- Cribbing and shoring for structural timber repair
- Dismantling / selective demo
- Deciding when to conserve and when to replace timber elements
- Techniques such as free-tenoning and scarfed repairs
|
 |
Robert Adam, 2009 Askins Achievement Award
One of the highlights of IPTW-ITES 2009 was the annual presentation of the Askins Achivement Award to Robert Adam, founder of the Preservation Carpentry Program at North Bennet Street School in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Adam is the principal architect of one of the most successful full-time preservation skills training program in the country. In 1982, he was hired to work as a carpentry instructor at North Bennet Street School to teach contemporary construction methods and subsequently became head of the department. However, while in that position, he proposed that the school offer preservation training that would be unique in the field: a curriculum-based training program to teach comprehensive traditional carpentry skills in the classroom and shop and on projects chosen to teach and reinforce those skills. Instead of a single site, Mr. Adam foresaw the opportunity to work on historic sites throughout New England and the Northeast.
Since its beginning in 1986, the Preservation Carpentry program has graduated more than 200 students who enter the field with manual skills, hands-on experience and analytical abilities. He follows the graduates’ careers, often advising on site-work problems, and is proud to find many of them are now his colleagues in the field. In addition to woodworking skills, Mr. Adam has included painting, plaster, masonry and metal work training whenever possible, as an
encouragement to his students to continue to learn skills beyond those of the carpenter. His resourceful direction and problem-solving made possible the operation of the program in limited quarters for many years, working on-site or in borrowed space when projects required it. <read more> |
Recent PTN News and Events
 IPTW-ITES 2009
August 25-29, 2009, Leadville, Colorado
The 13th annual International Preservation Trades Workshop was held by the Preservation Trades Network in partnership with the Colorado Mountain College Historic Preservation program. The 3rd International Trades Education Symposium was held in conjunction with IPTW 2009. These combined events will take place in the spectacular natural setting of the Rocky Mountains. Both events provided unique opportunities for tradespeople, educators, architects, preservationists, students and others from the US and abroad to network while sharing experiences, learning new skills and finding common ground in their experiences relating to trades education and “hands on” conservation of the built environment.
Workshops, "hands on" demonstrations of preservation techniques and symposium sessions took place in historic Leadville, Colorado and at the Hayden Ranch National Register Historic site, an intact example of a high country ranch and agricultural operations c.1872-1947. Colorado Mountain College purchased the ranch for use as a learning laboratory, interpretive site, and classroom space for students in the preservation trades program. <read more>
|
Contact us | View site map
|
|
