National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, London, United Kingdom:

The role of the National Trust within the project will be to select sites, within its own properties, which would benefit from both investigation of moisture movement through the structure and the cumulative effect of all environmental risk factors including gaseous pollutants, both externally and internally generated. A property containing gilt leather wall coverings, or one with tapestries hanging on outside walls might well be candidates. They will also be able to pass on experience of preventive conservation issues, including monitoring and control of the environment, to assist those where risk assessment and policies are less developed. Another role is to identify problems e.g. further assistance is required to examine the role of moisture transfer through the wall and floor structure and the effect of the microclimate created within the niches in which the paintings are inset. It will also be of importance to compare historic buildings of the National Trust, with conservation heating regimes to maintain stable levels of relative humidity, to others in more extreme climate regions within Europe. A further role will be to install the novel damage assessment monitors supplied, supervise their careful long term exposure, and collect data when necessary. They will also compile a report of visual assessment of objects on display and in proximity to exposure of the damage dosimeters, record the number of visitors, the level of lighting, and type of ventilation used.