Pressroom

The innovations in digital technologies in Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations (AECO) sector are not just related to the enhancement of consolidated processes, but they open new collaboration methods and integration with other Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Interoperability in the construction sector is a key issue and researchers, developers and designers have tackled since the introduction of CAD systems. Traditionally, engineers, architects and site operators interact and track their information exchange through paper or digitalized drawings and e-mails. With the introduction of Building Information Modelling (BIM) techniques and tools, operators are using new solutions and methods to keep track and exploit these data.

Linked Data technologies have been developed in order to connect concepts in a structured way, enhancing machine readability and enabling many features like semantic queries. The potential of such technologies is wide in many fields, in particular in the construction sector, which could benefit in many ways by their application.

The School of Engineering at UCC and the International Energy Research Centre (IERC) at Tyndall welcome new research funding from the EU Horizon 2020 Programme via the Energy Efficiency Buildings (EeB) Public-Private Partnership (PPP).

The digital transformation of the AEC sector is facing several criticalities which have to be solved in order to effectively exploit its different potentialities.

We introduce an innovative BIM-based framework for efficient renovation in buildings comprising of tools supporting the AEC actors and building's stakeholders (owners and occupants)

The project BIM4EEB will deliver an innovative common BIM management system with linked data and a toolkit; this is the basic instrument for increasing semantic interoperability between software and stakeholders involved.