Protocols for Tracking Information Content in the Existing BIM

Preface by Jacques Laubscher and Victoria Ferraris The construction supply chain is facing significant transformation, rethinking its competitiveness and sustainability in design, production and governance actions on the built environment, especially the existing one. The diffusion of the Building Information Modelling (BIM) methodology allows supporting the increasing levels of industrialisation, according to national and international technical regulations.
This volume explores issues related to the planning of intervention on existing assets, dealing with the processing of data from integrated surveys, the management of exchange flows, the traceability of building information content and the geometric accuracy assessment of the reality and source-based models. The research is developed as part of the activities promoted for the project Economy of Morphology: the architecture of the Surat Hindu Association, Durban within the framework of the programme Italy-South Africa joint Research Project 2018-2020, co-founded by the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria. Andrea di Filippo holds a PhD in Risk and Sustainability in Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Systems at the Department of Civil Engineering - University of Salerno (Italy).
He is an adjunct professor at the same institution, at the Polytechnic and Basic Sciences School - University of Naples "Federico II" and for the study programme in Architecture and Industrial Design - University "San Raffaele" Rome. He is also a research contractor at the Department of Architecture - University of Palermo. He was visiting researcher at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design - Tshwane University of Technology between July and August 2018 and, at the same institution, scientific director of surveying activities for the Surat Hindu Association buildings in Durban between September and October 2022.