HPFC

Historic Preservation Foundation Classes: procedures and ontologies for the interoperability in historic preservation

To answer the demand, put both at theoretical and legislative level, of making the management of built cultural heritage consistent, coordinated and planned, new digital tools are implemented, from 3D survey to BIM. Developed for new construction, this tools risk to led to an unthinkingly and reductive digitalization, until the problem will not be solved of exchanging among players the specific information concerning historic buildings. While the industry of the built environment goes towards a general implementation of digital information modelling, HPFC aims at producing the first release of an open IFC standard dedicated to built cultural heritage, by analysing the already available sets of ontologies and standards and using a prototype of exchange platform to test the outputs on real case studies, representing both the scales of monumental buildings and historic settlements.