ABSTRACT

Maintaining and preservation of heritage areas depends on a sequential and integrated series of procedures. The concept of the value map has emerged to support and maintain aesthetic, architectural, cultural and environmental values, and highlights the natural elements. They applied their approach to a Segeberg townhouse in Germany. The proposed methodology considers scanning historic buildings using laser scanners to generate numbers of geometric features. The resultant Building Information Modelling (BIM) model is a rich digital model that can be used to support decisions related to the analysis and conservation of historic buildings in relation to surrounding environments. The chapter proposes the use of BIM technology to collect, compare and share and manage all the heterogeneous data related to the geometry and state of conservation of historic buildings in Egypt. It presents the methodology for image processing using point clouds to generate a Heritage Building Information Modelling model.