“…A lot of developments for as-built BIM are emerging from the adoption of BIM from cultural heritage communities. Many authors have shown the benefits of using BIM for cultural heritage preservation (Fai et al, 2011, Oreni et al, 2014, Wu et al, 2013, Boeykens et al, 2012, Pauwels et al, 2008, Quattrini et al, 2015, Barazzetti et al, 2015. Pauwels et al (2008) describe an approach called Architectural Information Modelling which uses BIM to document geometric data along with appended historical information such as photographs, scanned documents or research material.…”