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www.ihbc.org.uk @IHBCtweet Registered as a charity in England and Wales number 1061593 and in Scotland number SC041945. Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England number 3333780. Registered Office: Jubilee House, High Street, Tisbury, Wiltshire SP3 6HA Officers President Mike Brown, president@ihbc.org.uk Chair David McDonald, chair@ihbc.org.uk Vice Chair Lone Le Vay, vchair@ihbc.org.uk Secretary Jo Evans, ihbcsecretary@ihbc.org.uk Treasurer Jill Kerry, treasurer@ihbc.org.uk National Office Director Seán O’Reilly, director@ihbc.org.uk Operations Director Fiona Newton, operations@ihbc.org.uk Consultations Coordinator consultations@ihbc.org.uk Membership Services Officer Carmen Moran, membershipservices@ihbc.org.uk Professional Services Officer Michael Netter, services@ihbc.org.uk Administration Officer Lydia Porter, admin@ihbc.org.uk Committee Chairs Policy Roy Lewis, policy@ihbc.org.uk Membership & Ethics Andrew Shepherd, membership@ihbc.org.uk Finance & Resources Jill Kerry, resources@ihbc.org.uk Education ChrisWood, education@ihbc.org.uk Communications & Outreach Dave Chetwyn, communications@ihbc.org.uk Branch Officers North vacant NorthWest Crispin Edwards, 07768 502363 Yorkshire vacant West Midlands vacant East Midlands RosemaryThompson, eastmidlands@ihbc.org.uk South Alison Davidson, south@ihbc.org.uk SouthWest vacant East Anglia vacant South East Sanne Roberts, southeast@ihbc.org.uk London Sheila Stones, 01223 582716 Scotland vacant Wales John Edwards, 07796 440934 Northern Ireland Ken Moore, northernireland@ihbc.org.uk Republic of Ireland Cormac O’Sullivan, 00353 5677 62907 Applying digital technology Innovation and investigation at the Hill House Building information modelling for heritage Digital placemaking in Derry No 168 June 2021 Cover: Laser scanning is just one aspect of building information modelling. Photo (showing an image from Joanna Hull’s article on page 12) by Rob Cowan C O N T E X T 1 6 8 : J U N E 2 0 2 1 1 2 Briefing 5 Out of Context;The writer’s voice 6 Periodically 11 Editorial 12 BIM for heritage asset management Joanna Hull 17 Digital technology in the historic environment Hamish McMichael 19 Digital modelling for retrofit Michael Netter 20 Innovation and investigation at the Hill House Sophia Mirashrafi and MaureenYoung 23 Using drones for inspection and survey Paul Bryan 26 Gaming the urban past Adrian Grant 29 Digital media and the post-pandemic town Dave Chetwyn 33 Shrines of British and Irish saints in Germany Michael Asselmeyer 36 Conserving Manchester’s Albert Square and Memorial Mark Clifford 39 Notes from the chair 41 Director’s cut 43 Vox pop 44 New members 45 New member profile 47 Book reviews 52 Inter alia 53 Products and services 56 Advertisers index