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Abstract
Climate control in archives can be managed very differently from that in other buildings, but very often standard technology, and reliance on standard specifications is applied. This article is a re-investigation of how best to control the climate in archives, based on the chemistry of decay and the physics of the atmosphere, by at first discarding the pedantic strictness of the archival standards but then paradoxically showing that they can indeed be attained by very simple means.
Notes
[1] Urquhart and Williams, ‘Absorption isotherm of cotton.’
[2] Padfield, ‘The role of absorbent building materials in moderating changes of relative humidity.’
[3] Data from Lars Christoffersen, Birch and Krogboe A/S, Teknikerbyen 34, 2830 Virum, Denmark.
[4] KHRAS Architects, Teknikerbyen 7, 2830 Virum, Denmark. Consulting engineer: COWI A/S Parallelvej 2, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
[5] Air change rate was measured by Morten Ryhl-Svendsen.