Technical Paper 38

Overview

There are 500,000 pre-1919 masonry buildings in Scotland, and they are under increasingly significant strain due to climate change. 

This report, in partnership with HES, the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University, explores different 3D surveying techniques and presents data processing solutions for both segmenting 3D point clouds and detecting and classifying visible defects of masonry walls.

Authors

Dr Frédéric Bosché

Senior lecturer in Construction Informatics in the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh

Dr Alan Forster

Associate Professor within the Royal Academy of Engineering Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Urban Design, Heriot-Watt University.

Dr Enrique Valero

Research Associate in the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh