Building information modelling for historical building Historic Jeddah - Saudi Arabia

The topic of how the municipality of Jeddah can document, produce and preserve complete engineering information and drawings for historical buildings is one of the most important issues facing the Historic Jeddah district in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The concept of using a remote collection of survey data with Architectural Photogrammetry and Terrestrial Laser Scanning has been accepted in several heritage locations worldwide. Additionally, the combination of the resulting information and Building Information Modelling has been developed as a technique to manage and document these historical buildings. In the last 20 years, several traditional approaches have been used to document, record, and survey heritage buildings in Historic Jeddah; however, these techniques have sometimes delivered unreliable information, taken a long time and inevitably omitted key details. This paper will focus on using Jeddah Historical Building Information Modelling; to produce complete engineering information and drawings.