The repair principle

Program overview:

10 a.m. Welcome

10:10 a.m. The craft of the future in the repair society

10:30 a.m. Building stock system, limits and long-term opportunities of cyclical repairs

11 am From Ruskin to 'Pro-Active Maintenance'

11:30 am Thirty years on Repair or Restore. Are the precepts of 'Conserve as Found' and 'Honest Repair' climate resilient?

12 pm On repair abandonment

12:30 p.m. What is missing in practice

Break

2 p.m. Podium

Heritage conservation and the building trade of the future

Quality assurance, new training topics, limits to the reuse of used parts

3 p.m. Repair as an engineering task

3:30 p.m. "Single-variety construction"

4 p.m. Conversion as a system option

4:30 p.m. "Against artificial obsolescence"

5 p.m. Summary

Followed by a reception hosted by the VDR and DRH restorers' associations