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Welcome from the President

The 2003 APTI Conference promises to be another in a series of wide-ranging and thought-provoking programs. The conference theme, 21st Century Preservation – Conservation and Craftsmanship will be addressed in three separate tracks:

  • Maritime Preservation

  • Traditional Buildings

  • Landscape Preservation.

The historic Portland, Maine venue certainly serves these themes well.
 
Speakers this year bring their unique perspectives from far and wide, including preservation professionals from Asia, Europe and North America. Topics range from preservation of a Russian Gulag to characterization of the porosity of lime mortars, conservation of heritage submarines (who knew there were so many?) and understanding cultural landscapes using GIS and GPS technologies. Representatives from Save Venice and Historic Scotland, who will share their views of Conservation and Craftsmanship, offer our opening and closing plenary sessions respectively. This is APTI living up to the “international” in its name.

This year, there are four separate two-day technical workshops planned, including Wood Preservation, Masonry Restoration, Assessing Historic Structures and a new professional development program in Structural Engineering for Older Buildings. These programs have been developed with a host of “partners”, including the International Masonry Institute, U.S. Heritage, The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, Heritage Preservation and the Maine Maritime Museum. We are grateful for their assistance and look forward to similar collaborations in the future.

As always, there are a number of interesting local tours to partake of, along with social events and ongoing efforts to hear more from our members on what they see as the burning preservation issues in need of further programming.

One of the defining strengths of APT is the wide variety of topics and the multiple specialties that are represented not only by conference speakers, but the audience, as well. Conversations that take place in workshops, conference sessions and informally during social events are part of the magic that takes place every year, as like-minded preservationists from a diversity of disciplines come together to share and add to their knowledge of the field.  

Please accept this invitation to join us this September in Portland, where you will have the opportunity to visit with old friends, make some new ones, and be part of a conversation extending back 35 years, to the founding of APT at another maritime venue, the Gaspe peninsula in Quebec. 

I hope to see you there- 

Sincerely,  


Kent Diebolt
President, APTI