Protection of existing heritage structures requires appropriate techniques to support the diagnosis and structural analysis phases in order to validate expected performance. The teamaim to bridge the gap between geomatics, geotechnical and structural engineering in order to better protect and safeguard heritage infrastructure from natural disasters. 

A new, low-cost and easy to use, high quality image-based surveying approach will be developed. The 3D data of complex civil engineering assets that will be generated will form a decision support information system with capacity to automatically generate geometrical domains to be used in structural health inspection and model updating using advanced structural engineering open source code. The digital model will become an operational tool that can be implemented in new information technology systems and adopted as a risk analysis tool for both single buildings and larger spatial extents.