ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the development of Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM) for active community engagement in valuing and conserving local architectural heritage. European and worldwide threats from climate change and peak resources are challenging us to sustainably but substantially repurpose and modify our occupied architectural heritage. In Europe over one-third of total carbon-related emissions are from the stocks of millions of existing buildings. Researchers and community activists are already exploring the potential of smartphones and their integrated sensors for participatory sensing. A number of participatory sensing projects use 3D visualisation over the web, and one constructs predictive visualisation of building responses to earthquake shaking, which may be adaptable to flood and similar events. Active community engagement is already identified as key for the conservation of world monuments and world heritage. Active community engagement is not sufficiently recognised as important for the sustainable regeneration of the more 'mundane' occupied architectural heritage that forms the backbone of heritage cities and landscapes.
