Applying modern computing techniques to historic buildings is full of challenges. This is unsurprising as the industry has been developed to address the needs of modern methods of construction. Eventually new buildings will become old buildings and the issues that our current historic environment has to deal with, will have to be confronted.

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Current building information modelling is direct towards manufacture. The aim is that the collection of information during the design phase, will inform maintenance and repair when the building is in use. In principle this is fine but the technology is advanced and is primarily geared toward large scale buildings with facilities managers that operate the buildings. It doesn’t scale well to smaller projects at the moment and while the data is all there, the processes for monitoring and inspection of building fabric is less well defined.

We are developing a new technology system that aims at converging the techniques developed in the historic environment with those developed for the modern BIM to address these issues.

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It will take data collected from historic environment and transform into intelligent building model that can be interrogated and analysed in ways that are not currently possible. This will allow works to be organised more efficiently and balanced with budgets, it will also enable data to be aggregated across a number of buildings.

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MAAC studio are presenting our research at BIM group on Monday 3rd June, at The Digital Studio at Skills Development Scotland on Church Street in Inverness  where we will be inviting comment and feedback.

Tickets are available on Eventbrite at BIM for Existing Buildings.

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MAAC studio are accredited conservation architects and principal designers working with traditional buildings throughout Scotland. 

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