H-BIM FOR THE CONSERVATION OF WOODEN STRUCTURES: A KNOWLEDGE-BASED PROTOCOL INTEGRATING GEOMETRY, HISTORY AND STRUCTURE

This study investigates the potential of Heritage Building Information Modeling (H-BIM) as a framework for systematically gathering and analyzing data on wooden structures in historic buildings. The objective is to enhance the understanding of structural implications arising from historical, construction, and conservation-related factors. A set of customized properties is introduced to facilitate the acquisition of key data, establishing predefined relationships to enable effective correlation between essential diagnostic aspects, including geometry, historical contents, construction characteristics, wood defects, and decay processes. The influence of these factors on structural behavior is emphasized to ensure a comprehensive assessment that integrates the entire interdisciplinary knowledge. The proposed methodology is applied to a case study involving the wooden trusses of a historic building in Parma. Therefore, the main achievement of this paper is to test the efficacy of H-BIM in receiving spatially localized and interdisciplinary information for a critical structural analysis.