Building Information Modelling based tools & technologies for fast and efficient RENovation of residential buildings

Deliverables

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (3)

BIM4REN repository: software and user guide

BIM4REN repository software and user guide

Updated versions of the open source BIMServer framework

Object catalog online service and backends application

Documents, reports (7)

Planning and Management of the field test operations for beta testing

Stakeholders' requirements and constrains

Baseline identification based on close monitoring of the 1st onsite renovation

Technical study and user guide on scan2BIM technologies (report)

Data requirements and validation technologies for renovation

Digital collaborative workflow of the building renovation process

Framework and interface specification of BIM bots in the BIM4REN environment

Other (6)

Pilots as living labs management plan for an effective implementation

Press releases and social media presence

Public website

Public communication materials

eveBIM4REN: publicly available BIM renovation designer tool

eveBIM4REN publicly available BIM renovation designer tool

BIM4REN Training Program

Publications

Conference proceedings (18)

Spatialization of damage to buildings using a BIM collaboration Format approach

Author(s): Oliver Schulz (RWTH)
Published in: 32nd Forum Building Informatics 2021, 2022
Publisher: Institute for Numerical Methods and Computer Science in Civil Engineering, TU Darmstadt

A Visual Programming Approach for Validating Linked Building Data

Author(s): Madhumitha Senthilvel, Jakob Beetz (RWTH)
Published in: EG-ICE 2020 Proceedings: Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, 2020
Publisher: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin

SHACL is for LBD what mvdXML is for IFC

Author(s): Jyrki Oraskari, Madhumitha Senthilvel, Jakob Beetz (RWTH)
Published in: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference of CIB W78, Luxembourg, 2021
Publisher: 38th International Conference of CIB W78

Conceptualizing Decentralized Information Containers for Common Data Environments using Linked Data

Author(s): Madhumitha Senthilvel, Jakob Beetz (RWTH)
Published in: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference of CIB W78, Luxembourg, 2021
Publisher: 38th International Conference of CIB W78

Implementing Information Container for linked Document Delivery (ICDD) as a micro-service

Author(s): Madhumitha Senthilvel, Jyrki Oraskari, Jakob Beetz (RWTH)
Published in: EG-ICE 2021 Proceedings: Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, 2021
Publisher: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin

Common Data Environments for the Information Container for linked Document Delivery

Author(s): Madhumitha Senthilvel; Jyrki Oraskari; Jakob Beetz
Published in: LDAC2020 8th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop, 2020
Publisher: Design Computation, Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen University

Context-Aware Image Acquisition Approaches for Renovation Building Process using AR and Linked Data

Author(s): Oliver Schulz, Jakob Beetz (RWTH)
Published in: Proceedings of the 7th Regional International Symposium on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, 2-3rd May 2019., 2019
Publisher: eCAADe and Aalborg University Press

Enabling Federated Interoperable Issue Management in a Building and Construction Sector

Author(s): Jyrki Oraskari, Oliver Schulz, Jeroen Werbrouck, Jakob Beetz (RWTH)
Published in: Proceedings of the 29thEG-ICE International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, 2022
Publisher: Technical University of Denmark and Aarhus University

Live Web Ontology for buildingSMART Data Dictionary

Author(s): Jyrki Oraskari (RWTH)
Published in: 32nd Forum Building Informatics 2021, 2022
Publisher: Institute for Numerical Methods and Computer Science in Civil Engineering, TU Darmstadt

Image-documentation of existing buildings using a server-based BIM Collaboration Format workflow

Author(s): Oliver Schulz, Jakob Beetz (RWTH)
Published in: EG-ICE 2021 Proceedings: Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, 2021
Publisher: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin

bcfOWL: A BIM collaboration ontology

Author(s): Oliver Schulz, Jyrki Oraskari and Jakob Beetz (RWTH)
Published in: 38th International Conference of CIB W78, 2021
Publisher: CIB W78 2021

IFC to Building Energy Performance Simulation: A systematic review of the main adopted tools and approaches

Author(s): Mohamed Elagiry; Nathalie Charbel; Pierre Bourreau; Enrico de Angelis; Andrea Costa
Published in: BauSIM 2020 - 8th Conference of IBPSA Germany and Austria, 2020
Publisher: University of Technology Austria

Dynamic BIM model conversion as inference-based ontology alignment

Author(s): Pierre Bourreau (NBK), Jyrki Oraskari (RWTH)
Published in: CIB W78 2020 Conference, 2021
Publisher: Nobatek/INEF4; RWTH University

Querying Heterogeneous Linked Building Data with Context-expanded GraphQL Queries

Author(s): Werbrouck Jeroen, Beetz Jakob, Senthilvel Madhumitha & Pauwels Pieter
Published in: LDAC2019-7th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop, 2019
Publisher: RWTH Aachen University, Ghent University

Towards a Decentralised Common Data Environment using Linked Building Data and the Solid Ecosystem

Author(s): Werbrouck Jeroen, Pauwels Pieter, Beetz Jakob & van Berlo Léon
Published in: 36th CIB W78 2019 Conference, 2019
Publisher: Northumbria University

A Checking Approach for Distributed Building Data

Author(s): Werbrouck Jeroen, Beetz Jakob, Senthilvel Madhumitha & Pauwels Pieter
Published in: 31st Forum Bauinformatik, 2019
Publisher: RWTH Aachen University, Ghent University

Semantic query languages for knowledge-based web services in a construction context

Author(s): Werbrouck Jeroen, Senthilvel Madhumitha, Beetz Jakob, Bourreau Pierre & Van Berlo Léon
Published in: 26th International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, 2019
Publisher: RWTH Aachen University

Towards describing version history of BCF data in the Semantic Web

Author(s): Jyrki Oraskari, Oliver Schulz, Jakob Beetz (RWTH)
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop – LDAC 2022, 2022
Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)

Peer reviewed articles (3)

A Methodology for the Digitalization of the Residential Building Renovation Process through OpenBIM-Based Workflows.

Author(s): Alberto Armijo, Peru Elguezabal, Natalia Lasarte (TECNALIA), and Matthias Weise (AEC3)
Published in: Special Issue Sustainable Re-Design of the Built Environment, 2021, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI

Challenges for Digitalisation in Building Renovation to Enhance the Efficiency of the Process: A Spanish Case Study.

Author(s): Natalia Lasarte, Peru Elguezabal, Maialen Sagarna, Iñigo León, Juan Pedro Otaduy (Tecnalia & University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)
Published in: Special Issue Sustainability and Digital Transformation: The New Challenges of the Construction Industry, 2022, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing

BIM4Ren: Barriers to BIM Implementation in Renovation Processes in the Italian Market

Author(s): Elagiry, Marino, Lasarte, Elguezabal, Messervey
Published in: Buildings, 9/9, 2019, Page(s) 200, ISSN 2075-5309
Publisher: Sustainable Places
DOI: 10.3390/buildings9090200

Other (4)

Multiple inheritance for a modular BIM

Author(s): Pierre Bourreau; Nathalie Charbel; Jeroen Werbrouck; Madhumitha Senthilvel; Jakob Beetz; Pieter Pauwels
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Nobatek/Inef4 (FR); Ghent University (BE); RWTH Aachen (DE); Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)

Graph-based methodology for multi-scale generation of energy analysis models from IFC (preprint article)

Author(s): A. Mediavilla, P.Elguezabal, N. Lasarte (TEC)
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Preprint freely available on SSRN - final article currently in review process

Creating Information Delivery Specifications using Linked Data

Author(s): Van Berlo Leon, Willems Peter Willems, Pauwels Pieter, Netherlands organisation for applied scientific research TNO & Ghent University, Dept. of Architecture and Urban Planning
Published in: 36th CIB W78 2019 Conference, 2019
Publisher: Ghent University

Analysis of the impact of success on three dimensions of sustainability in 173 countries

Author(s): A. Kaklauskas, L. Kaklauskiene (VGTU)
Published in: Nature Scientific Reports, 2022
Publisher: Nature Scientific Reports