Construction History-based BIM for Knowledge and Management of Existing Bridges: the Ponte della Vittoria in Verona

The preservation, management, and maintenance of existing infrastructure is one of the most significant challenges in contemporary engineering. The bridges present a huge amount of different structural typologies (beam, arch, truss, suspension, cable-stayed, and cantilever), different materials (stone masonry, iron and steel, reinforced concrete) which have been developed over the last two centuries. This great variety makes more difficult the analysis and the safe-guarde of existing bridges. However, the studies within the Construction History discipline can provide key data for the historical and technical knowledge of the existing structures concerning the ‘hidden’ construction details, the building process, and the maintenance intervention that occurred during their service life.