Lane M. Burritt, Principal Conservator
Lane Burritt is a founding principal at Aeon Preservation Services. She is an architectural conservator with over twenty-five years of experience in historic preservation. Working on world-class historic properties and monuments, her clients have included the Architect of the Capitol, the General Service Administration, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Naval Academy, private entities, and institutional clients. Her practice involves research, condition surveys, project design, contract documents, construction, and directing quality assurance and quality control on major projects. Comprehensive skills include in-depth moisture investigation, cost estimation, scheduling, and hands-on conservation implementation. Proficient in object verification, materials analysis, paint analysis, and other testing services. Her technical conservation includes paint analysis projects at the U.S. Capitol, Treasury Building, and Department of the Interior. She has also been involved in the environmental monitoring and forensic investigation of paint failure for buildings. Lane has conducted in-depth moisture investigations, hands-on conservation implementation, and non-destructive testing. Her latest hands-on project was the restoration of painted surfaces on the wood shutters at the Peacock Room at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery. Current research and interests are in salt damage to masonry surfaces and the use of technology in non-destructive testing. Before starting Aeon, Lane worked ten years as a Senior Conservator with John Milner Associates in the Preservation Technology Group. Previously, she worked in New York as a conservator. She holds an MFA from Savannah College of Art & Design, Graduate School of Building Arts. Lane has presented papers, lectured, and taught at national and international conferences and institutions, including APT, AIC, ICRI, the Preservation Institute, and Goucher College. She is a Professional Associate member of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), which governs architectural conservators.
Alfonso Narvaez, Principal Conservator
Alfonso Narvaez is a founding principal at Aeon Preservation Services. A senior architectural conservator with nearly thirty years’ experience in the technical preservation of historic buildings and monuments nationwide, Alfonso worked for John Milner Associates, Inc., a national consulting firm specializing in architecture, conservation, landscape architecture, archeology, and planning for historic properties and sites for over twenty years, before leaving to establish an independent practice. Prior to JMA, he worked as a Historic Architect for the National Park Service, North Atlantic Historic Preservation Center. For the past twenty years, Mr. Narvaez has taught seminars throughout the US through the National Preservation Institute and is currently on the faculty of the University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. He is a Professional Associate member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC), which governs both objects and architectural conservators.