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Intervening in old buildings requires extensive and objective knowledge. The multifarious aspects of the work carried out on these buildings tend to encompass a growing number of specialities, with a marked emphasis on those which allow the causes of the problems that affect them to be understood, and to define appropriate treatments.

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Delgado, J.M.P.Q., Azevedo, A.C., Guimarães, A.S. (2019). Introduction. In: Drying Kinetics in Building Materials and Components. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31860-4_1

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