Concrete was one of the twentieth century’s most widely used building materials. Its innovative use is a hallmark of modern engineering and architectural design, and a growing number of concrete structures are now being recognized for their heritage significance. Like most modern building materials, concrete poses specific conservation challenges, and there is much work to be done to secure good conservation outcomes.

Conserving Concrete Heritage: An Annotated Bibliography (Second Edition) is intended to assist those interested in the conservation of concrete by identifying and describing specific resources on the subject. It will also promote understanding of the current state of knowledge, which may assist with identification of gaps in the existing literature.

Focused on English-language literature, the bibliography covers mass, reinforced, cast-in-place, post-tensioned prestressed, and precast concrete. The references are organized into five chapters, which reflect the usual steps in the conservation process, including history; characteristics, deterioration, and damage; evaluation; conservation approach; repair and treatments. To facilitate navigation of the listed references, a selected number of key resources are highlighted at the beginning of each chapter.

The first edition of this bibliography, published in 2015, was an outgrowth of Conserving Twentieth-Century Built Heritage: A Bibliography (Second Edition). This second edition revises and significantly expands the first edition’s reference list, which the editors re-analyzed for relevance, scope, and obsolescence, resulting in a few references being removed or moved to different chapters. New additions focus on filling any gaps in the first edition, and in adding references published between 2015 and 2023.

Link: https://hdl.handle.net/10020/gci_pubs_conserving_concrete_2025