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Optimizing H-BIM Workflow for Interventions on Historical Building Elements

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  • Sara Guerra de Oliveira

    (Faculty of Civil Engineering Transportation Engineering and Architecture, University of Maribor, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia)

  • Salvatore Antonio Biancardo

    (Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Federico II University of Naples, 80125 Naples, Italy)

  • Andrej Tibaut

    (Faculty of Civil Engineering Transportation Engineering and Architecture, University of Maribor, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia)

Abstract

Intervention projects for historical buildings depend on the quality of multidisciplinary data sets; their collection, structure, and semantics. Building information model (BIM) based workflows for historical buildings accumulate some of the data sets in a shared information model that contains the building’s geometry assemblies with associated attributes (such as material). A BIM model of any building can be a source of data for different engineering assessments, for example, solar and wind exposure and seismic vulnerability, but for historic buildings it is particularly important for interventions like conservation, rehabilitation, and improvements such as refurbishment and retrofitting. When the BIM model is abstracted to a semantic model, enabling the use of semantic technologies such as reasoning and querying, semantic links can be established to other historical contexts. The semantic technologies help historic building experts to aggregate data into meaningful form. Ontologies provide them with an accurate knowledge representation of the concepts, relationships, and rules related to the historic building. In the paper, we are proposing an improved workflow for the transformation of a heritage BIM model to a semantic model. In the BIM part the workflow demonstrates how the fully parametric modelling of historical building components is relevant, for example, in terms of reusability and adaptation to a different context. In the semantic model part, ontology reuse, reasoning, and querying mechanisms are applied to validate the usability of the proposed workflow. The presented work will improve knowledge-sharing and reuse among stakeholders involved in historic building projects.

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  • Sara Guerra de Oliveira & Salvatore Antonio Biancardo & Andrej Tibaut, 2022. "Optimizing H-BIM Workflow for Interventions on Historical Building Elements," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-19, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:15:p:9703-:d:882111
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