{"podcast":{"title":"Heritage Buildings Podcast","slug":"heritage-buildings-podcast-7116506","podcast_index_feed_id":7116506,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/heritage-buildings-podcast/","website_url":"http://www.heritagebuildingspodcast.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/55cdbd4a-b829-4c31-a114-320e68796c2a/kojr6ohkmjbsw6dqh5bxrocmyfil.jpg","author":"Vincent Reed","episode_count":37,"summary":"Welcome to the Heritage Buildings Podcast with your host Vincent Reed, where we bring you in-depth interviews with leading experts, passionate enthusiasts, and industry professionals from across the heritage buildings sector. Join us as we explore captivating stories, uncover the artistry behind historical buildings, and dive into the challenges and successes of conserving our architectural heritage. This podcast is available as audio format across all of your favourite podcasting apps and as video format on our official YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@HeritageBuildingsAssociation Be sure to join in on the discussions in our forum - https://heritagebuildings.forum Connect with us on social media - https://linktr.ee/heritagebuildingsassociation","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T06:17:47.996728+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/heritage-buildings-podcast-7116506"},"episode":{"title":"[HBP#35] - Mariachiara Faliva - Seeing Buildings Beyond the Facade","slug":"hbp-35-mariachiara-faliva-seeing-buildings-beyond-the-facade","published_at":"2026-06-09T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/heritage-buildings-podcast-7116506/hbp-35-mariachiara-faliva-seeing-buildings-beyond-the-facade","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/heritage-buildings-podcast-7116506","url":"http://www.heritagebuildingspodcast.com","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/14e70cba-124c-47a4-8b06-dc420e626387.mp3","summary":"*🎙️ You can also access the full Audio version of this Podcast by searching for 'Heritage Buildings Podcast' on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, PocketCasts, and your favourite podcast apps.* Welcome to another episode of the Heritage Buildings Podcast. Vincent Reed sits down with Mariachiara Faliva, accredited conservation architect and façade specialist, to explore the science behind historic buildings, material decay, and the investigative work required to understand why buildings fail. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in conservation, diagnostics, and failure analysis, Mariachiara shares how studying chemistry for conservation in Italy led her into building pathology, laboratory analysis, and the study of historic materials. She explains why many conservation challenges stem from poor diagnosis and incompatible repairs, and why successful interventions begin with understanding how materials behave and deteriorate over time. Mariachiara also reflects on her work investigating historic structures in New York, including early steel-frame masonry buildings and terracotta façades, before moving to London to specialize in building performance and façade engineering. She discusses the importance of balancing repair and replacement, the role of maintenance in preventing water-driven damage, and how tools such as WUFI hydrothermal analysis support informed retrofit decisions. Through projects including Tate Liverpool and the Barbican renewal, she highlights the value of early-stage investigations, data-led design, material reuse, and collaboration across disciplines to deliver more sustainable outcomes for historic buildings. *Other topics covered include:* • How chemistry and material science support building conservation • Investigating historic materials through labora…","meta_description":"*🎙️ You can also access the full Audio version of this Podcast by searching for 'Heritage Buildings Podcast' on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, PocketCasts, and y…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4902,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/heritage-buildings-podcast-7116506/episodes/hbp-35-mariachiara-faliva-seeing-buildings-beyond-the-facade/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/heritage-buildings-podcast-7116506/hbp-35-mariachiara-faliva-seeing-buildings-beyond-the-facade.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}