References · the bibliography

Where the numbers come from.

Every claim on this site has a source. The sources are listed below, organized by category. Where a claim is not sourced, it is the practice’s judgement and is named as such in the prose.

Standards & codes

ASHRAE Handbook — HVAC Applications, Chapter 24 “Museums, Galleries, Archives and Libraries.” The single most-cited document on this site.
BS EN 16893:2018, Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Specifications for location, construction and modification of buildings or rooms intended for the storage or use of heritage collections.
BS EN 16883:2017, Conservation of cultural heritage. Guidelines for improving the energy performance of historic buildings.
ISO 11799:2015, Information and documentation — Document storage requirements for archive and library materials.
NFPA 40, Standard for the Storage and Handling of Cellulose Nitrate Film.
NFPA 909, Code for the Protection of Cultural Resource Properties — Museums, Libraries, and Places of Worship.

Books we keep within reach

Thomson, G. The Museum Environment, 2nd ed. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1986. Out of print.
Staniforth, S., ed. Historical Perspectives on Preventive Conservation. Getty Conservation Institute, 2013.
Reilly, J. M. IPI Storage Guide for Acetate Film. IPI/RIT, 1993.
Brimblecombe, P. The Effects of Air Pollution on the Built Environment. Imperial College Press, 2003.
Padfield, T., & Borchersen, K., eds. Museum Microclimates. National Museum of Denmark, 2007.
Leopold, A. A Sand County Almanac. Oxford University Press, 1949. The model for our daybook entries.

Working papers & foundational essays

Michalski, S. “The Ideal Climate, Risk Management, the ASHRAE Chapter, and Proofed Fluctuations.” Getty Conservation Institute, 2007. Cited at least once on every detail page on this site.
NPS Preservation Brief 24, Heating, Ventilating, and Cooling Historic Buildings.
NPS Conserve O Gram series — particularly 3/4 (Relative Humidity), 3/2 (Temperature), 14/3 (Cold Storage of Photographic Materials), 14/9 (Nitrate Storage).
Marek, S. “Envelope before equipment: a defense of the 18-month diagnostic.” ASHRAE Journal, March 2023.

Organizations

Image Permanence Institute (IPI), Rochester Institute of Technology. The institutional source for the dew-point calculator and eClimateNotebook.
American Institute for Conservation (AIC). Petra is a Professional Associate.
ASHRAE — specifically Technical Committee 9.8, Large Building Air-Conditioning Applications. Sloane is a voting member.
American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Standards committee work informs the loan-compliance protocol.
Association for Preservation Technology (APT). The conservation-HVAC literature for North American historic buildings lives in the APT Bulletin.
Getty Conservation Institute. The Sustainable Climate Strategies for Cultural Heritage initiative.
International Institute for Conservation (IIC).

Tools we use daily

IPI Dew Point Calculator. The first tool we open on every Gate M2.
IPI eClimateNotebook. Subscription environmental-management tool, $185/yr per institution.
Conserv environmental monitoring. Our LoRaWAN platform of record since 2018.
WUFI hygrothermal modeling. For wall-section dew-point analysis on historic buildings.
Niagara Framework. The BMS we deploy on every controls scope.
BYU psychrometric chart toolkit. The free tool we use for chart-style calculations.

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Citations

If we missed a source, write us.

Every detail page on this site cites at least five external sources, all of which resolve. If we have linked an article that has moved, broken, or been retracted, we want to know about it. Write studio@plenumandreed.example with the URL and the page where you found it. We update.

How to read the references

Each detail page has a References block at the bottom in numbered list form. Citations within the prose are linked inline. External links open in a new tab and carry an arrow (↗) so you know they leave the site. We do not use endnote numbering; we believe links should be visible where they sit.