Abstract. The adoption of innovative digital heritage workflows in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector faces significant challenges, particularly in integrating digital survey data with Building Information Modeling (BIM) into a unified model. This paper begins with a literature review that outlines the geometric and software-environment constraints complicating such integration and examines various proposed solutions, with particular attention to open-source tools and standard formats. Building on this foundation, the paper introduces an innovative two-stage method: (1) segmenting, classifying, and enriching digital survey data into a BIM model; and (2) developing a web viewer that hybridizes this BIM model with the original survey data. The proposed workflow relies exclusively on open-source tools and open standards, with Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) used as the native editing format. A seamless continuity is established between the Bonsai add-on for Blender, used as a BIM authoring environment, and the web library That Open Engine, which serves as a dissemination tool enabling interactive querying of BIM data within a web browser. This library shares a common dependency on Three.js with 3DTilesRendererJS, allowing the overlay of a tiled photomesh of the asset. This integration enables the combination of an accurate geometric and visual representation with structured metadata interaction within a unified web environment. Overall, the proposed approach provides a robust and flexible framework for supporting practical applications such as dissemination, documentation, and diagnostic studies of heritage assets.
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