[10/24] Professor David Toll has been awarded the Telford Premium Prize from the Institution of Civil Engineers for his co-authored paper “Heritage building information modelling: a case study of Kasthamandap, Nepal”.
Professor David Toll, Co-Director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR), and his co-author, data analyst Henry Paremain, have been given a prestigious award by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). The Telford Premium Prize is named in honour of the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Thomas Telford (1757-1834).
The prize was awarded for their paper describing the development of a digital model of Kasthamandap, a heritage structure in Nepal. Kasthamandap dates back to 600 CE and is a building integral to Nepal’s heritage. It is the building after which Kathmandu is named. It collapsed as a result of the Gorkha earthquake in 2015 but was reconstructed between May 2018 and April 2022. The paper demonstrates the variety of ways in which a digital model can be used to represent both engineering data and intangible heritage data, with the possibility of involving the public in the heritage documentation process.
You can read the paper on the ICE Virtual Library.
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