Advice Series: Disaster


Architectural Heritage Advisory Unit of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government

Regular price €10.00

2011, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Paperback, 98 pages

The Advice Series is a series of illustrated booklets published by the Architectural Heritage Advisory Unit of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The booklets are designed to guide those responsible for historic buildings on how best to repair and maintain their properties.

 This guide seeks to advise those responsible for the care and conservation of a historic building or site on how to:

• Prevent disasters occurring by identifying risks and taking steps to eliminate or reduce them

• Prepare a disaster risk management plan that can be implemented in an emergency

• Respond to an unfolding emergency

• Deal with the aftermath and, as far as possible, return the historic building and its contents to normal