The use of drones has the potential to reduce the time and costs of conventional techniques employed for field survey of cultural heritage buildings. This research explored the processes necessary to convert the most iconic building of the University of California, San Diego, the Geisel Library, into an H-BIM model. The main result findings of this work is to create a model can be used for two main purposes: to collect information which can protect the cultural significance of the building and achieve a virtual tool that can be used to better define a restoration strategy.