Plug-and-play solutions for energy-efficiency deep renovation of European building stock

Ninety percent of the existing building stock in Europe was built before 1990. These buildings are in urgent need for a significant improvement of energy-efficiency through renovation. State-of-the-art renovation solutions are available, but costly and lengthy renovation processes and incomprehensible technical complexities hinder the...

Connecting the knowhow of design, production and construction professionals through mixed reality to overcome building’s performance gaps

At present European buildings typically consume two to five times more energy than predicted at the design stage. An important cause of this performance gap is the discrepancies between the design specification and the As-Built condition. Such discrepancies are mainly due to the gaps in knowhow between design, production and construction...

Facilitating the BIM coordinator and empowering the suppliers with automated data compliance checking

BIM on the construction site: Generating on demand, task specific drawings in the site office

Building Information Modeling is accepted as the new technology for design, engineering and collaboration AEC projects. There is a group of people that has specific needs on the BIM data: the construction workers. At this moment drawings are created from a BIM model at a specific moment in the whole building process. The information on the...

BIM on the construction site: Providing hidden information on task specific drawings

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is accepted as the new technology for design, engineering and collaboration AEC projects. BIM can be seen as a collection of objects, properties and relations. Many parties in the construction process use the data in their benefit. There is a group of people that has very specific needs on using BIM data: the...

Hospital campus design related with EeB challenges

Energy efficiency and reduction of carbon emission of Healthcare buildings and districts are a key factor for a sustainable community since their energy use and carbon emission are among the highest of all building types. A hospital - which is a part of a healthcare district - uses 2.5 times more energy than an office in average. In order to...

Semantic BIM and GIS modelling for energy-efficient buildings integrated in a healthcare district

The subject of energy-efficient buildings (EeB) is among the most urgent research priorities in the European Union (EU). In order to achieve the broadest impact, innovative approaches to EeB need to resolve challenges at the neighbourhood level, instead of only focusing on improvements of individual buildings. For this purpose, the design phase...