2019-20 Conservation Training with BC Parks at Yorke Island Conservancy Aerial survey of the Gun Shelters and Fire Command buildingsBen laser scanning the remains of the Submarine Listening Post at Yorke IslandThe Nahwitti Ranger stands just off shore of Yorke IslandTransferring to Yorke Island with BC Parks and Heritage BranchJohn preparing logs for repairsBen and Simon expose the original foundations of the Listening PostBen practices his trowel workAxe racesWalls taking shapeMore log prepMaking shiplap on siteSimon laying the new floorBC Parks Area Supervisor Dave Jack from BC Parks (Dave loves his job!)Moving lumber with the Nahwitti’s tenderSunderland Post takes shape World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS/ICCROMReactive Monitoring Mission to theHistoric Ensemble of the Potala Palace at Lhasa, Tibet (China) The Golden Roofs of the Jokhang Temple, LhasaMission members with local dignitaries at Potala PalaceWall mural at Norbulingka showing carpenters making the Jokhang Temple in the 7th CenturyJoinery detail from the Potala Palace showing previous repairEarth floors at Jokhang Temple supported on round wood flooring and log beamsColumn and capital detail at Potala PalaceShakyamuni Buddha, Jokhang Temple More images from the past few years… Gord performing an assessment of Mungo Martin’s Centennial PoleBen documenting and dismantling a medieval frame at York, UKHeritage Mason Nigel Copsey repointing at Cole IslandCharley Brentnall documents a ‘Stevenson’s Met. Screen’ at Cape Royds, AntarcticaThe ‘Wardroom Table’ at Scott’s hut Cape Evans, AntarcticaRoss Sea traverse: moving equipment over the frozen sea ice, AntarcticaUsing resistograph to inspect 60ft cedar purlins at Museum of AnthropologyEmergency stabilization of the Mungo Martin’s Centennial PoleShell stores on Cole Island where Gord & Ben run the heritage Field School for UVicRoped access inspection of Beaver River TrestleMaking repairs to medieval frame in York, UKBill West ‘on the ropes’ during bridge inspectionProject architect (New Zealand legend!) Pip Cheshire at Cape Evans, AntarcticaGene Wixon receiving supplies at Cape Evans, AntarcticaThe original Kinsol Trestle survey teamInside Bill Reid’s ‘Haida House’ at the MOAComplex historic masonry at Cole IslandTabular berg passes Shackleton’s Nimrod Hut at Cape Royds, AntarcticaAccommodation at Cape Evans, AntarcticaInspecting wall logs at the QMS Chapel to inform repair workBen with his GoPro documenting a day with volunteers at Cole IslandCondition assessment of totem poleAssessment of the Centennial PoleTeaching traditional craft skills with the Timber Framers’ Guild in SurinameUVic’s Heritage Field School at Cole IslandFire damage assessment is grubby work!Ben uses resistography to determine the strength of fire damaged bridge pilingsGraham Oglend uses GPS survey equipment at Kinsol TrestleGord teaching wood biology at Heritage BC conferenceFabrice Lallemand dismantles beams during the documentation of the Harris BarnShell Stores at Cole IslandBen teaches traditional hot-mixing with lime at Uvic CHRM courseGord working inside Scott’s Terra Nova hut, Antarctica‘Scott’s Cubicle’, Cape Evans, AntarcticaBen and ‘the medieval end-grain harpoon’ at York, UKTodd Creek Trestle inspectionLeif Roebuck receives a 56ft traveller beam from the Navy at Cole IslandMedieval carpenters’ marks at Coney Street in YorkDetail of carpenters’ marksField crew ready to depart Cole IslandDenise Cook inspects No 1 Gun at Yorke IslandBen prepares to capture some drone footage of the Gun Emplacements at Yorke IslandScott’s Hut at Cape Evans after a stormCraig Goodman helps us reveal the Coney Street frame at YorkTom Linzey makes full-scale templates of the Coney Street frameThe templates reassembled back in CanadaDetail of the Coney Street templatesCraig and Gord during frame dismantling work at YorkEngineer abroad! Melissa Kindratsky joins us in York UKNigel Copsey performs masonry evaluation for St Luke’s in Red DeerOne of the searchlights during an early trip to Yorke IslandInside the Calgary Cathedral roof during a condition assessmentBen and Dan Stewart, leader of the Roman Knossos projectLaying out survey grids at Knossoss, Crete for geophysical investigationBen uses the UoL magnetometer to perform sub-surface geophysics investigation at KnossosDan Stewart using GPS to identify Roman masonry at Knossos, CreteRoman column drums at the archeaological site of Gournia in CreteRoman cistern at Aptera, CreteCeramic votive offering observed during survey work at Knossos.Typical landscape of the Roman Knossos project, CreteAssessment of the Todd Creek TrestleInside the Beaver River TrestlePierre Moquin on ropes during assessment of Beaver River TrestleWelcome figure of Chief Macquinna’s People at Yuquot National Historic Site, under the Milky WayInterior of Shackleton’s Nimrod hut at Cape Royds