Gwyn Frankland-Roberts

Gwyn Roberts is Head of Digital Delivery at Donald Insall Associates, a heritage conservation architecture practice, and Co-Chair of BIM4Heritage. A RIBA-chartered architect, he leads the practice’s approach to digital information management across heritage projects, translating industry standards and government mandates – ISO 19650, IFC, COBie, Uniclass – into practical workflows suited to historic buildings. At the Palace of Westminster, Gwyn led the digital delivery approach for the Cloister Court masonry conservation project, converting narrative conservation records into structured, COBie-compatible asset data. Elsewhere on the estate, he defined heritage information requirements and introduced wayfinder components that can link thousands of heritage assets directly into the client’s future asset management system, reducing modelling effort and improving traceability across the asset lifecycle. Gwyn’s work sits at the intersection of traditional conservation practice and modern in