Technical Preservation Services is pleased to announce that The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation & Illustrated Guidelines on Sustainability for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings are now available as an interactive web feature, at www.nps.gov/tps/standards/rehabilitation/guidelines/index.htm. Published in 2011, the Guidelines on Sustainability are the first set of official guidelines on how to make changes to improve energy efficiency and preserve the character of historic buildings. The Guidelines are an important addition to current discussions about sustainability and achieving greater energy efficiency, which have focused primarily on new buildings to date.

The Guidelines on Sustainability stress the inherent sustainability of historic buildings and offer specific guidance on “recommended” rehabilitation treatments and “not recommended” treatments, which could negatively impact a building’s historic character. Illustrations of both types of treatments are included. The Guidelines are designed to assist building owners in planning rehabilitation projects that will meet the Standards for Rehabilitation.

This feature is the latest in the series of web-based training offered by Technical Preservation Services to provide professional development alternatives and enrichment programs for professional preservationists, local preservation commissions, volunteers, and anyone interested in more in-depth training in historic preservation. All of the online programs are available at www.nps.gov/tps/education/online-training.htm.

Technical Preservation Services, Cultural Resources, Partnerships and Science, National Park Service, develops historic preservation policy and guidance on preserving and rehabilitating historic buildings, administers the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program for rehabilitating historic buildings, and sets the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.

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May seems to be a busy month for us all; therefore, we’re extending the Call for Papers deadline to May 31st!  Below is the revised call for papers for the annual conference of the Marion Dean Ross/Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.  This year’s theme is “The Willamette River Valley: Settlers and Founders.”  The conference will be held in Salem, Oregon, October 18-20, 2013.  The pertinent dates are:

May 31, 2013 – Abstract due
June 11, 2013 – Selection notification
August 12, 2013 – Completed manuscripts
October 18-20, 2013 – Conference in Salem

Further information can be found below and on the SAH MDR website at:

http://www.sahmdr.org/

Please forward this message to anyone or any group that you see fit.  Hope to see you in Salem in October!

- Dave Pinyerd
SAH MDR membership coordinator

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Willamette River Valley: Settlers and Founders

ANNUAL CONFERENCE
SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
MARION DEAN ROSS/PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER
SALEM, OREGON – OCTOBER 18-20, 2013

Abstracts or proposals for papers or work-in-progress reports are solicited for the 2013 annual meeting of the Marion Dean Ross/Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.  This year’s meeting will be held in Salem, Oregon, October 18-20, 2013.

This year’s theme is “The Willamette River Valley: Settlers and Founders.”  Submissions for the conference may address architects, builders, city planners, and landscape architects of the Willamette Valley, and the historical and economic forces behind Salem’s development as a regional center.  These topics will be given first priority.  Other proposals addressing any aspect of the built environment from any time period or place are also welcome.  All abstracts adhering to the submission guidelines listed below will be given a fair assessment.  Abstracts will be blind peer reviewed by the SAH MDR Review Committee with a select number chosen for oral presentation.  Applicants may be offered a poster session if their abstract is not selected for oral presentation.

Graduate students and advanced undergraduates in fields related to the built environment are particularly welcome to present at the conference.  Membership in the Marion Dean Ross/Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians is not required for abstract submission, although everyone chosen for presentation will be asked to contribute chapter dues for the current year.

Submission Guidelines: The abstract should be no more than 500 words, and should fit onto a single-sided page.  On a separate single page, include the author’s name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address with a brief, 100-200 word paragraph biography or one-page curriculum vitae.  Abstracts are due on or before May 31, 2013, and authors of papers chosen for presentation will be notified by June 11, 2013.  Registration fees apply.  Please indicate in your abstract whether you intend to deliver a twenty-minute paper or a ten-minute work-in-progress report.  Ideally, the papers or work-in-progress reports delivered at the conference should be analytical or critical in nature, rather than descriptive and aim to make an original contribution.  Completed manuscripts of accepted papers must be submitted in full to conference organizers by August 12, 2013.

Authors shall retain copyright, but shall agree that the paper will be deposited for scholarly use in the chapter archive in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries.  Electronic submission of proposals is preferred. Please email submissions as Microsoft Word attachments with the subject heading SAH MDR Conference 2013 on or before May 31, 2013, to Phillip Mead at pmead@uidaho.edu.  If you are unable to send your submission electronically, please send it via regular mail to:

Phillip G. Mead AIA
College of Art and Architecture
University of Idaho
PO Box 442451
Moscow ID 83844