IN-PERSON: Prague – Section B

Abstract

Heritage buildings (HBs) as significant physical and archaeological assets and the root of the societies’ legacy are of paramount importance for conservation. To enhance their performance according to the developed surrounding environment during the years, their renovation has become the crucial notion considering the recently rising significance of climate change crisis. This research investigates the need to HBIM (Heritage Building Information Modelling)-based evaluation to maximize environmental performance of HBs under climate change crisis. Considering various factors and their performance evaluation in an integrated condition for each alternative, it is required to find out the most optimized choice. This research provides an introduction into environmental factors affecting HBs renovation and highlights the need to investigate enhancing current evaluation and simulation tools which are integrative with Building Information Modelling (BIM). It suggests designing an HBIM-based framework for rigorous presentations and simulation of the environmental performance of the HBs’ renovation alternatives. This will help decision makers to choose the most optimized solutions for environmental challenges while avoiding routine and time-consuming tasks. Also, it raises the opportunities for future researchers to organize the information available about the environmental performance of HBs and brings about new areas of research for future of architectural heritage conservation by adding value to the existing HBIM literature.