<p>Italy is the first country by number of UNESCO world heritage sites, counting 47. Among them, 35 are (at least in part) of architectural nature.<br />
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<p>Under Construction. Please refer to our <a href="https://2012.igem.org/Team:UNITN-Trento">Main Page</a>for a brief description of our projects.</p>
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Italy holds more than 52k architectural or archeological heritages. The “Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali” (our ministry for cultural assets and activities) is given not much more than €1.7M/yr, about the 0.23% of the whole State budget – consider that other countries kept investing at least 3% in culture, even in this time of crisis. <br />
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Given that here roughly a fifth of it is used for maintenance, this amount of money is easily overcome by local administration investment. We think that's a shame. <p>
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<p>With this project we aim to develop a pool of technologies to provide easy, fast and (in time) cheap, recovery and maintenance of our -and other's- heritages. <p>
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<p>The weather, combined with air pollution, can cause the formation of an ugly black crust on marble.<br />
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It’s composed of gypsum crystals incorporating metals, bacteria and organic compounds. <br />
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Our technologies rely on engineering bacteria, enabling them to reduce the sulfur of gypsum, disrupting it and thereby removing the black crust.<p>
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<p><i>DISCLAIMER: This page is still under works, data may not be completely correct.</i></p>
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