WIT Press is pleased to announce that the proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Structural Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture (STREMAH 2009) are now available. The Conference was held July 22-24, 2009.

The book, entitled Structural Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture XI, contains most of the papers presented at the Conference, the latest in a series that is now well established, having been held biennially since 1989. STREMAH is, in fact, now recognized as the best meeting of its type, attracting specialists from all over the world to share their studies of heritage buildings. The papers have been organized into the following sections:

" Heritage architecture and historical aspects

" Structural issues" Heritage architecture and historical aspects

" Structural issues

" Material characterisation

" Simulation and modelling

" Surveying and monitoring

" Assessment and retrofitting

" Seismic behaviour and vibrations

" Reuse of heritage buildings

" Modern (19th/20th Century) heritage

Information on the conference can be found at www2.wessex.ac.uk/09-conferences/stremah-2009.html.

All the papers from Wessex Institute of Techology conferences held since 1993 are also archived in electronic form in the Web Library of the Wessex Institute ( http://library.witpress.com/). Structural Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture XI is Volume 109 in the WIT Transactions on The Built Environment. Abstracts and Open Access papers (free) and full text ($30 per paper) of individual papers in the book are available.