Heritage Building Conservation: Sustainable and Digital Modelling

Heritage buildings deteriorate at different rates, and keeping them up cost-effectively is hard. The volume proposes a Maintainability Index, abbreviated MIHB, to help decide which old structures to maintain first. Real cases from Egypt, a country with a vast number of unique heritage structures, show how a data-based approach works in practice.

The opening chapters review the history of conservation and maintenance and the codes and standards that govern the preservation of historic buildings. Later chapters look at digital documentation with LIDAR, photogrammetry, Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM) and virtual reality, and at the adaptive reuse of old buildings. The book also models embodied and operational energy performance.

The authors argue that reusing heritage buildings is central to creating sustainable communities. The book will suit researchers, architects, engineers and those who manage heritage buildings. Edition note: first edition, published by Routledge in 2023, 142 pages, ISBN-13: 9781032374925.