Interventions on the built environment and more generally on buildings of the past, including the recent past, and their management call for fine-tuned knowledge and organization skills in all the related areas, from planning to maintenance. In Italy, even today, these activities are frequently dealt with – by public authorities and private individuals alike – in inappropriate or inadequate way...

The theory of using Building Information Modelling “BIM” has been used in several Heritage places in the worldwide, in the case of conserving, documenting, managing, and creating full engineering drawings and information. However, one of the most serious issues that facing many experts in order to use the Historical Building Information Modelling “HBIM”, is creating the complicated architectura...

the importance of iranian ancient as architectural heritage have to competent international prestige a nd respect due this is important with regard to proper conservation met hods based on non-destructive evaluation methods and non-contact testing providing enough accuracy and speed to bri ng performance to stabilize while correct location and age value of valuable architectural aspect of quant...

The Chinese traditional architecture called as DaMu structure, which wooden materials were used mainly. The work of historic heritage conservation needs the surveying maps and the 3D model of the building. Laser scanning techniques can provide the best potential for high efficient and more safety recording of the 3D data. Recently, Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) has been used in some architec...

In this paper the problem of evaluating our cultural-architectural heritage is treated. The aim is to design a method for incorporating multiple (tangible and intangible) dimensions of cultural-architectural assets. In the first part a critical discussion of various cornerstones of evaluating such assets is given, whilst a plea is made for the use of a 'compound' evaluation method. Next, an ove...

In the field of the architectural heritage, the representation of artefacts, particularly for communication purposes, has benefited from the development of computer-based modelling techniques in fields ranging form archaeology to geography. But numerous experts in the above mentioned heritage field have come to question the readability of realistic models inside which the hypothetical nature of...

Seismic hazard analysis is performed for a representative zone in Peru, including the city of Cusco, the citadel of Machupicchu and the archeological complex of Choquequirao, constituting the area with important Inca heritage. This is considered to be the first step towards developing a rational approach to seismic risk analysis of the Inca’s architectural heritage. An evaluation of the vulnera...