The principle of ensuring the stability of buildings with examples of structural repairs to buildings with different causes of destabilization
The structural repair of heritage properties requires exhaustive investigative works, entailing a full analysis of the bearing structure of the property in line with the building methods of the period when the property was built, and the circumstances in which it has survived. The paper describes one of the principles of repair and stabilization successfully applied to three properties: the Holy Trinity monastery in Vozuca, the Despic house in Sarajevo, and the Orthodox church of St Elijah in Maglaj. The properties date from different periods and are in different localities, and had become derelict and destabilized for different reasons