Save the Date for IPTW-ITES 2009 August 25-29, 2009, Leadville, Colorado The 13th annual International Preservation Trades Workshop will be held by the Preservation Trades Network in partnership with the Colorado Mountain College Historic Preservation program. The 3rd International Trades Education Symposium will be held in conjuction with IPTW 2009. These combined events will take place in the spectacular natural setting of the Rocky Mountains and will provide a unique opportunity for tradespeople, educators, preservationists, students and others from the US and abroad to exchange experiences, learn skills and find common ground in the application of the skilled trades to conservation of the built environment. Workshops, "hands on" demonstrations of preservation techniques and symposium sessions will take place in historic Leadville, Colorado and at the Hayden Ranch, an intact example of a high country ranch and agricultural operation which operated from 1872-1947. Colorado Mountain College purchased the ranch for use as a laboratory, woodworking shop and classroom space for students in the preservation trades program, and it promises to be a remarkable venue for IPTW-ITES events. IPTW-ITES Lodging information lodging information <here>

Preliminary Schedule of Events

Historic Log Construction Workshop - August 23rd – 27th

This workshop, which requires preregistration, will teach participants how historic log buildings can be relocated for adaptive re-use. Participants will learn how to document, unstack, relocate, repair and re-stack traditional 19th century Colorado mountain cabins.

Historic Brick Masonry Cleaning Workshop - August 25th & 26th

This workshop, which takes place at the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum in Leadville, involves learning what is involved is safely removing fluorescence from brick masonry and understanding it’s causes and prevention.

Historic Cemetery Conservation Workshop - August 26th

This workshop, which takes place at the historic Leadville Cemetery, will introduce participants to the practices involved is safely cleaning and repairing historic masonry gravestones and cemetery markers.

International Trades Education Symposium (ITES) - August 25–27

Presentations by educators, students and professional will be based on the four major topic areas:

1. Shifting Sands - Labor History of the Building Trades from primitive structures to the present. What we can learn from the history of the building trades and how we find its impact on culture today.

2. Solid Land - Remembering the reasons why the building trades matter.

3. A Place to Build - Defining the challenge of the 21st Century for trade based education and industry. Practical application to the development of standards and practices for teaching traditional trades methods and building preservation/conservation technology.

4. Building Foundations - Building a new culture for building craft education and industry. Defining pathways for trade education in the 21st century and the potential for development of skills exchange, partnership efforts and collaboration on community, regional, national and international levels.

International Preservation Trades Workshop (IPTW) - August 27-29

Preservation trades demonstrations involving lead and metal working, stained glass window restoration, decorative plaster and painting, stone conservation and more will take place at the historic Hayden Ranch just outside of historic Leadville.

Visit the Hayden Ranch on Google Earth. If you have Google Earth installed on your computer you can click on the logo at left to "fly" to the Hayden Ranch and view satellite imagery, maps, terrain and buildings and photos of the site. A dialog box will open asking if you want to open or save the file <Hayden Ranch.kmz>. Click open to "fly" to the site.