The energy audit for a building is a procedure designed mainly to obtain adequate knowledge of the energy consumption profile, identify, and quantify opportunities for energy savings by a cost-benefit analysis and report, clearly and comprehensively, about the obtained results. If the audit is referred to a building with a significant historical and artistic value, a compatibility evaluation of...

Cultural heritage is the set of things, that having particular historical cultural and aesthetic are of public interest and constitute the wealth and civilization of a place and its people. Sharpen up methodologies aimed at safeguarding of monuments is crucial because the future may have in mind the historical past. Italy is a country that has invested heavily on its historical memory returned ...

Building information modelling (BIM) is becoming a useful approach in the documentation and enhancement of historical structures in a system termed historical BIM (HBIM). It is not easy to convert point clouds into a 3D model since the buildings concerned often have very irregular geometry. Therefore, more semi-automatic parameterisation tools are needed. Portable, user-navigable HBIM databases...

Looking from an historical perspective, it can be seen that many civilizations have lived in the country and consequently produced many different cultures and architectural products. One of the oldest cities which contain such historical examples which have lived until present is Tabriz. Its traditional houses are the most important places to represent the life style of the past. Lack of recogn...

BauDenkMalNetz (“listed buildings web”) deals with creating a semantically annotated website of urban historical landmarks. The annotations cover the most relevant information about the landmarks (e.g. the buildings’ architects, architectural style or construction details), for the purpose of extended accessibility and smart querying. BauDenkMalNetz is based on a series of touristic books on ar...

This research present a system named Prioritization System (PS) to support the maintenance engineers while they are making the decision about the priorities for maintenance applications of school buildings. Distinguished from the other research done before, which built the priority model only with historical data, the PS presented in this research bases both on historical data and knowledge, wh...

Several papers have been published on the monitoring of environmental conditions inside museums and galleries. There are also some works regarding air quality in churches, which are relevant for cultural heritage (CH). Historical buildings and castles, that have nowadays been turned into museums, where precious CH items are exhibited, should be studied as well. However, in such historical build...