COVERED BRIDGE PRESERVATION:
NATIONAL BEST PRACTICES CONFERENCE
DRAFT PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2003

5:00 pm -7:00 pm - Offsite Registration Desk Open at the Conference Hotel- Burlington Radisson Hotel

THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2003 - Morning Program

7:00 am -12:00 pm - Registration Desk/Resource Room Open at the Marsh Room at Billings Center UVM. The Registration Desk will be open all morning June 5th; the Resource Room shall be open throughout the Conference during the scheduled breaks.

7:00 - 8:30 -Continental Breakfast - (Billings Center Apse)

8:30 - 9:15 - Conference Welcome - (Billings Campus Center Theater)
Call to Order and Introductions - Prof. Thomas D. Visser, University of Vermont Historic Preservation Program
Welcome: UVM President - Daniel Fogel
Welcome: Representative from the Office of Vermont Senator Jeffords
Welcome: John Robbins, NPS Assistant Director for Cultural Resources and E. Blaine Cliver, Chief of HABS/HAER
Welcome: Charles E. Basner,Vermont Division Administrator, Federal Highway Administration
Conference Goals - Tom McGrath, Superintendent, National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center
Conference Administrivia - Judy Hayward, Director, Preservation Education Institute

9:15 -10:00 - Keynote address (Billings Campus Center Theater)
Professor Henry Petroski, the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering & Professor of History at Duke University -

10:00-10:30 - Plenary Session 1 (Billings Campus Center Theater)
Eric DeLony, Chief, Historic American Engineering Record - The Value of Old Bridges

10:30 -11:00 - Break

11:00 - 12:30 - Breakout Sessions

Theme A: History (Fleming Museum Lecture Hall Room 101)

11:00 -11:30 - Session 1: Joseph Conwill - Who Built the Covered Bridges? The Social Organization of Building

11:30 -12:00 - Session 2: Robert L. McCullough - Timber Crossings

12:00 -12:30 - Session 3: Lola Bennett - From Craft to Science: American Timber Bridges, 1790-1840.

Theme B: Engineering Analysis (Billings Campus Center Theater)

11:00-11:30- Session 4: Ben Schafer -Engineering Analysis of Covered Wooden Bridges from the HAER Summer 2002 Project

11:30 - 12:00 - Session 5: Robert H. Durfee & Matthew Low- Analyzing Covered Bridges for Live Loads

12:00 - 12:30 - Session 6: Robert H. Canham - Rigorous Structural Analysis and Load Rating of Historic Town Lattice Trusses

12:30-1:30 LUNCH provided (Billings Center Cook Commons)

THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2003 - Afternoon Program

1:30 - 3:00 Breakout Sessions

Theme C: History and Tourism (Fleming Museum Lecture Hall Room 101)

1:30-2:00 - Session 7: William Collins- The Tohickon Aqueduct

2:00-2:30- Session 8: Matthew Reckard - Smith Trusses: Bringing Covered Bridges into the Industrial Age

2:30-3:00- Session 9: Anne Lynk - Covered Bridges and the Tourism Economy

Theme D: Maintenance and Repair (Billings Campus Center Theater)

1:30-2:00 - Session 10: Kenneth C. Harwood Jr. ­ Preservation and Protection of Covered Bridges

2:00-2:30 - Session 11: Jack Smoot -Burfordville Covered Bridge Restoration: A Case Study

2:30-3:00 - Session 12: Reinhard Ludke, S.E.- Yosemite National Park, Rehabilitation of the Wawona Covered Bridge: A Balance of Engineering and Historic Preservation Ethics

3:00 -3:30 - Break

3:30 - 5:00 Breakout Sessions

Theme E: Preservation and Stabilization (Billings Campus Center Theater)

3:30-4:00 - Session 13: Arnold Milton Graton Jr. - Restoration Philosophy for Covered Bridges: Old vs. New

4:00-4:30 - Session 14: David J. Hoyne - Cambridge Poland/Junction Covered Bridge

4:30-5:00 - Session 15: Leon Buckwalter - The Stabilization of King's Covered Bridge

Theme F: Assessment and Technology (Fleming Museum Lecture Hall Room 101)

3:30-4:00 - Session 16: M.G. Sanders and T.L. Amburgey -Wood Treating Techniques for Preserving Pieces of History

4:00-4:30 - Session 17: Ronald W. Anthony - Condition Assessment of Timber Using Resistance Drilling and Digital Radioscopy

4:30-5:00 - Session 18: Samer H. Petro -Preserving Historic Covered Bridges Using Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers

THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL EVENT (Shelburne Museum, Route 7, Shelburne, VT)

6:00 1st Bus departs for Shelburne Museum (Radisson Hotel)
6:15 2nd Bus departs for Shelburne Museum (UVM Visitor Parking Lot)
6:30 - 9:00 Reception and Awards Ceremony - Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT

8:00 - 9:30 Buses depart from Shelburne Museum for Burlington

End of Day One

FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2003 - Morning Program

7:00 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast - (Billings Center Apse)

8:00 - 9:30 Plenary Session 2 (Billings Campus Center Theater)

8:00-8:30 - Session 19: David Fischetti - Engineering Needs of Covered Bridges

8:30-9:00 - Session 20: Dario Gasparini - Structural Behavior and Maintenance of Prestressed Covered Bridges

9:00-9:30 - Session 21: Phillip C. Pierce - Analyzing Those Intriguing Town Lattice Trusses

9:30-10:00 - Break

10:00 - 11:30 - Breakout Sessions

Theme G: Maintenance and Rehabilitation (Billings Campus Center Theater)

10:00-10:30 - Session 22 Sean T. James -Historic Covered Bridge Rehabilitations - Lessons Learned

10:30-11:00 - Session 23: Jay Messier - Rehabilitation of the Cooley Covered Bridge

11:00 - 11:30 - Session 24: Willy F. Grimmke - Steps Toward Reaching a Consensus for Rehabilitating and Upgrading a 150-Year-Old Covered Bridge : A Case Study

Theme H: Documentation and Protection (Fleming Museum Lecture Hall Room 101)

10:00-10:30 - Session 25: Christopher Marston - A Case Study of the HAER Summer Recording Team of 2002

10:30-11:00 - Session 26: Michiko Tanaka - Documentation and Preservation of Covered Bridges in Lane County

11:00-11:30 - Session 27 Jim Barker - Protecting Indiana's Covered Bridges, One Person's Approach

11:30-11:45 Break

11:45-12:30 - Plenary Session 3 (Billings Campus Center Theater)

A presentation from the Vermont Historic Covered Bridge Committee: Susan Scribner, Warren Trip , Nancy Boone and Eric Gilbertson - Development and Application of an Historic Covered Bridge Preservation Plan

12:30 pm-1:30 pm - LUNCH provided - (Billings Center Cook Commons)

FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2003 - Afternoon Program

1:30-2:45 -Plenary Session 4 (Billings Center Cook Commons)

Coming to Consensus - Facilitated Discussion - Consensus for Suggested Standards for Covered Bridge Preservation Treatments
The Burlington Charter for Covered Bridges - a statement of principles

2:45-3:00 - Break

3:00-5:00 - Plenary Session 5 (Billings Campus Center Theater)

Theme I: The Future and Threats to Covered Bridges

3:00-3:30 Session 28: Phillip C. Pierce - The Case for Building New Covered Bridges

3:30-4:00 Session 29: Craig Struble & Seth Bergstein - Rehabilitation of the Wawona Covered Bridge: A Balance of Engineering Requirements and Historic Preservation Ethics

4:00-4:30 Session 30: Robert H. Durfee - Fire Protection and Fire Prevention on Covered Bridges

4:30-5:00 Session 31: Jan Lewandoski - In-Kind Repair of Wood Truss Highway Bridges: Strategies and Options for Keeping Them in Use

Dinner on Own

End of Day Two

SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2003 -

Covered Bridge Tours

Tours will depart at 9 a.m. from the University of Vermont campus. Parking will be available all day. Additional Fee includes box lunch .
Tour A - $45: Joe Nelson, author of Spanning Time: Vermont's Covered Bridges, will lead a tour of covered bridges in Fairfax, Montgomery, and Cambridge

Tour B - $45: Ed Barna, author of Vermont's Covered Bridges, will lead a tour of covered bridges in Ferrisburgh, Middlebury, Brandon, and Pittsford

Tour C - $45: David Wright, President of the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges, will lead a tour of covered bridges in Woodstock and Windsor, Vermont and Cornish, New Hampshire including the Cornish-Windsor covered bridge

Tour D - $20: Deputy Vermont State Historic Preservation Officer Eric Gilbertson will lead a motorcycle tour for up to 20 enthusiasts.

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm - All tours are scheduled to return to Burlington.

End of Day Three

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Note: This program is subject to updates and changes without notice.
Draft 4/16/03