ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a UK perspective, BS 7913: 2013 is acknowledged to be the most authoritative UK guide on the conservation and management of historic and traditional buildings, and any Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM) should set out to ensure that BS 7913 is put into practice. It provides the ideal framework on which to base the standard application of HBIM applied to traditional and historic buildings. The chapter discusses the issues that one would consider at the base-level Existing Building Information Modelling, the significance issues that produce the additional layer for it to be called HBIM as well as those green issues that would be contained in GBIM. Most of the focus for Building Information Modelling (BIM) is on new construction, with BIM protocols being developed to make the construction process more efficient. A study by Leeds Metropolitan University established that newly built UK housing generally performs about 10% less efficiently than predicted.
