Technical Value Of Industrial Heritage Protection

With the development of science and technology, the global industry as a whole isgoing through a massive upgrading and structural adjustment. During this process, thedisappearance of a large number of the main industries leads to the arising ofindustrial heritages in the same magnitude. These heritages are the only witness to thebrilliant and splendid history over the times. The emergence of industrial heritages ina large scale has generated two independent subjects and disciplines in the academicfield: the protection of industrial heritages and protection study of industrialheritages. Both of them have gradually played an active role since the late 20thcentury. This paper is to explore the possibility and feasibility of constructing anintegral and independent protection system for industrial heritages in different aspects,and attempts to establish such a system on the basis of the related academic findingson the study of cultural heritage, archeology, protection of historical architecture,urban planning and management, aiming to fill up the blank in building a protectionsystem for the industrial heritage.This theoretically-focused paper starts from the background of the industrial heritageand the theoretical foundation of protection study of the industrial heritage, and thenanalyzes the value composition of the industrial heritage to put forward that protectingthe value of technology is essential for protecting the industrial heritage. Theevaluation system and protection evaluation system of the industrial heritage can beestablished accordingly. On this basis and from the perspective of methodology, thispaper analyzes the model and method to protect the value of technology. It points outthat the method is to protect the physical objects and media which carry the value oftechnology instead of protecting the void value of technology itself, providing amethodological thinking for the protection of value of technology. To enhance thefeasibility of protection system of the industrial heritage, this paper specially analyzesthe decision-making system of industrial heritage protection and the relationships ofall stakeholders in this system, in order to meet the demands of all parties concernedin a possible way and to set up an effective decision-making system combiningtop-down and bottom-up formats with a clear objective. This paper connects everychapter organically and lays focuses on different case examples, and in the last section specifies the entire process of a case analysis to prove the feasibility of the protectionsystem of the industrial heritage.The fundamental viewpoint of this thesis lies in that the value of technology is thecore value of the industrial heritage. Therefore the essence of industrial heritageprotection is to protect the value of technology. It is how this paper is entitled.Specifically, the procedure of industrial heritage protection, including the valueevaluation, the protection evaluation, the protection mode and method, should all becarried out with the center of "the value of technology". It is the real protection inboth intension and extension sense. This viewpoint is different from the study toindustrial heritage by architecture from the perspective of re-using idle space, andserves a necessary supplement to the preservation system of cultural heritages.By referring to the findings of the field of corporate management, this paperintroduces the concept of "stakeholders" and sets up the authority attribute model ofindustrial heritage stakeholders to analyze various relations in this decision-makingsystem. It can be regarded as a new perspective and method to give the decisionmakers a reference in terms of the industrial heritage.