{"id":16338,"date":"2017-08-08T16:09:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T15:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=16338"},"modified":"2017-08-06T18:51:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T17:51:38","slug":"ihbc-cpd-boost-new-heritage-science-bim-report-from-he-with-added-context-from-cotac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=16338","title":{"rendered":"IHBC CPD Boost: New \u2018Heritage Science BIM\u2019 report from HE, with added context from COTAC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Both the IHBC and COTAC have welcomed the new Historic England (HE) Report on \u2018The Application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) within a Heritage Science Context\u2019, while COTAC (of which IHBC is a member) helps set this work within the wider mainstream of its building conservation initiatives.<\/h3>\n

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COTAC Chair Ingval Maxwell: \u2018We are delighted to welcome this work in its heritage science context.\u00a0 It is also worth highlighting the link between this work and key COTAC reports, as well as the \u2018BIM for Heritage\u2019 volume also for Historic England, by Sofia Antonopoulou and Paul Bryan.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The Historic England publications are part of wider developments developing from the \u2018BIM4Conservation Group\u2019 that COTAC initiated in 2015, and the consequent 2016 on-line pdf publications \u2018COTAC BIM4C Integrating HBIM Framework Report\u2019: Part 1 \u2018Conservation Parameters\u2019, and Part 2 \u2018Conservation Influences\u2019.<\/p>\n

Barry Bridgwood, Adviser to COTAC and IHBC member, said: \u2018Historic England\u2019s \u2018The application of BIM\u2026\u2019 publication, by Carl Brookes, of Ramboll, is excellent, and really establishes the fundamental difference in approach when dealing with heritage assets and resources.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The information modelling achieved by modern electronic methods is very informative and useful, as well as the fact that Heritage projects require much more ‘front loaded’ information on understanding significance prior to intervention.\u00a0 Altogether it represents excellent progress in recognising why and how heritage projects, within the BIM context, are fundamentally different to new build!\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018As part of these congratulations, we would also highlight the need for training on conservation matters at professional qualification stage in order to ‘alert’ student and \/practitioners to the very great differences when undertaking heritage projects\u2019.<\/p>\n

Historic England writes:<\/p>\n

BIM is the widely used acronym for Building Information Modelling, a process of digitally representing the physical and functional characteristics of a building. Given that the majority of UK BIM application is currently focused on new build design and construction, Historic England commissioned Ramboll to identify relevant processes and datasets that would potentially allow heritage sites to be managed and heritage science focused analysis to be undertaken using BIM procedures.<\/p>\n

To provide a heritage focus and relevant, derived datasets two important Grade I listed sites were selected – the medieval, oak framed Harmondsworth Barn built in 1426 and The Iron Bridge over the river Severn built in 1779.<\/p>\n

Using existing geospatial survey datasets for both two sites Ramboll considered how a BIM environment could benefit heritage science analysis and processes. This involved building examples to illustrate established BIM metrics such as level of modelling definition, level of detail, level of information and measurement classification to achieve the required fidelity of model<\/p>\n

For further reference on BIM and conservation see these online resources from COTAC and partners:<\/p>\n