A Comparison of Digital Procedures to Support Renovation Processes of the Built Environment

The inefficiency affecting a significant part of our built heritage reveals the urgency of renovating existing buildings and the need for extensive and cost-effective interventions. To achieve a disruptive diffusion of renovations good practices, it is still necessary to increase end-users’ awareness and provide a framework for efficient workflows to the professionals involved in these processes (designers, contractors, manufacturers). In this scenario, digital technologies play a key role, since they enable the optimisation of the whole renovation process by saving time and costs, reducing the chances of mistakes, and fostering interoperability. One of the main applications of digital technologies in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector deals with the organisation of data into digital, informative models that can be useful for the management of many phases of the process, from planning to monitoring. The collection of data on existing buildings is the first cruc...