Dr Erik Costamagna

Erik is an architect with a PhD specializing in Geomatics. He has several years of experience in the AEC industry, having worked in various roles, including land and building surveyor, CAD technician, 3D modeler, and GIS analyst.

In his academic career, he served as a post-doctoral fellow at the Carleton University in Ottawa and as an adjunct professor at the Politecnico di Torino. He is currently teaching Geospatial Engineering at the University of Greater Manchester.

Erik’s fields of interest include GIS/BIM integration, digital twins, object recognition and geomatics applications to cultural heritage recording.

Research Interests and Research Subject Specialisms:
• Spatial modelling applications to environmental management;
• 3D change detection applications to construction and environmental management;
• Scan2BIM: pointclouds geometric and semantic structuring into digital twins;
• Structure from Motion algorithms for aerial photogrammetric surveys.

Teaching specialisms:
• Geospatial Surveying;
• Dissertation/Individual research project;
• Research skills and professionalism;
• Interdisciplinary project.

Publications and Research:
Costamagna, E., et al. (2019). Advanced Non-destructive Techniques for the Diagnosis of Historic Buildings: The Loka-Hteik-Pan Temple in Bagan. Journal of Cultural Heritage. Elsevier

Costamagna, E. (2014). Geographic Information Science (GIS) 3D. In A. C. Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia
of Quality of Life and Well-being Research (pp. 2512–2521). Springer.

Chiabrando, F., Costamagna, E., & Spanò, A. T. (2013). La correlazione di immagini per la generazione
di modelli 3D per il patrimonio costruito - Passive Optical Sensors and Related Image-matching. Methods for 3D Modelling. Territorio Italia, 53–67.

Costamagna, E., & Spanò, A. T. (2013). CityGML for Architectural Heritage. In A. Abdul Rahman, P. Boguslawski, C. Gold, & M. Said (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Developments in Multidimensional Spatial Data Models (pp. 219–237). Springer.

Costamagna, E., & Spanò, A. T. (2012). Semantic Models for Architectural Heritage Documentation. In M. Ioannides, D. Fritsch, J. Leissner, R. Davies, F. Remondino, & R. Caffo (Eds.), Progress in Cultural Heritage Preservation, Euromed 2012 (pp. 241–250). Springer.

Affiliations:
• Architects Registration Board (ARB)
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)