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Specifications Manual for Built Heritage Conservation

Tata Trusts have been invested in supporting built Department (CPWD) and Ratish Nanda, CEO, AKTC,
heritage conservation projects and have partnered with India, compiled a 3-part volume titled ‘Specifications
the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) on two Manual for Built Heritage Conservation.’ It has been
long-term projects, i.e. the conservation of Humayun’s prepared over a period of two years, drawing from
Tomb, Delhi and the conservation of nine major AKTC’s two-decade-long extensive work in this field
monuments as part of the Qutb Shahi Heritage and independent conservation practitioners, different
Park, Hyderabad. Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) circles and state
archaeology departments.
In 2019, recognising the need for comprehensive
specifications for built heritage, Tata Trusts partnered The manual has been disseminated to architecture
with Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) to build a colleges in India, several conservation architects,
resource that compiles processes, rates of materials and practitioners, and ASI circles in India. These volumes
analysis of rates specific to built heritage conservation will be of immense help to practitioners and
works. An interdisciplinary team of conservation and potential conservators.
landscape architects, engineers and archaeologists, led
by Ashok Khurana, ex-DG of Central Public Works

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