About Us

Transylvania Trust Foundation

The Transylvania Trust is a registered charity, set up by conservation professionals and volunteers in 1996. Our principal aim is to conserve and promote Transylvania's rich and diverse built heritage, to encourage society to be receptive towards the built environment. The Trust is active in all fields of conservation: data recording, inventory, survey, building restoration, maintenance, training, and also scientific research.

Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC)

The IHBC is the professional Institute that represents conservation professionals in both the public and private sectors in Great Britain. It exists in order to establish the highest standard of conservation and to support the effective protection and enhancement of the historic environment

International cooperation

The BHCT project over the past few years has established co-operation with a number of institutions:

Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs, Romania
Europa Nostra
Icomos, UK, Romania, Hungary, USA
Consultancy Centre for European Cultural Programmes, Romania
National office of Cultural heritage, Hungary
World Monuments Fund
The Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation, UK
Architectural University of Sibiu, Iasi, Timisoara, Bucuresti
Landscape University, Bucharest
Gotland University, Sweden
Folkeuniversitetet, Tynset, Norway
Architectural Association, UK
British Council, Romania
British Council, Western Europe and Americas
Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Development and Protection.