Impact-based Diagnostic Approach for Maintenance Monitoring of Historic Buildings

The traditional approach of structural health monitoring and building pathology is structure-based. The usual monitoring approach of property caretakers and facility management professionals is location-based. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages in case of monitoring and maintaining heritage buildings. The spread of the application of BIM environment in the field of heritage monitoring and maintenance management predictable provides advantageous technical background for more complex diagnostic approaches. In this paper the impact-based diagnostic approach is introduced, which implies a more suitable way to prevent superposing decay problems in case of monitoring heritage buildings. The impact-based way of analysing damage hazards and recording deterioration of historic buildings in case of computer aided 3D recording of the survey data is an attempt to provide a method for maintenance professionals, that means control and feedback on the maintaining process and enables to connect the occurring damages and decay failures of different structures logically.