Heritage BIM Approach for roman pavements

The growing necessity to design and digitally representation of historical pavements has led thespecialists to use different Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools to control the road design andconstruction phases. In this research paper, a Heritage BIM (H-BIM) approach was developed to recreatean archaeological road to accomplish the disruption analysis of stone pavements. In detail, within AutodeskInfraworks the conceptual model of the road and the digital terrain model (DTM) was generated; then theroad corridor design process was performed within Autodesk Civil 3D using a parametric road sectionwhich was created by means of Subassembly composer, a Civil 3D extension. Subsequently, a visualprogramming application, Dynamo, based on Python language, was adopted to extract and update corridorinformation. In detail, a workflow was developed to implement a disruption analysis of road stonepavements and the output of the calculation were inserted in the model. As preliminary results, a tool isproposed to support the authorities and experts during the managing processes.