Yi Lu

Vita

Director of the Shanxi Academy for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings, Painted Sculptures and Frescoes (with the Shanxi Museum of Historical Architecture and the Center for the Management of the Shanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Preservation Fund). Yi Lu has been working in heritage conservation for more than twenty years. Since joining the institution, he has been responsible for drafting the “Technical Rules for the Acceptance of Restoration Work on Historic Buildings in Shanxi Province” and establishing a quality management chain for heritage conservation projects in Shanxi. He also led the drafting of the “Cost Guideline for Heritage Conservation Projects (Northern Region)”, which was published and implemented in 2017. He also led the drafting of the local standard “Quality Behavior Rules for the Various Stakeholders in Heritage Conservation Projects in Shanxi Province”. In 2024, he published the article “Water-holding properties and electrochemical characterization of the soil under the Grand Deliverance Hall of the Chongshan Temple, Taiyuan City, China: providing the basis for preventing groundwater erosion in historic buildings” in the journal Heritage Science.