Project description
Better energy flow in the building sector for a greener tomorrow
Climate change affects all regions around the world. The threat of climate change to humans has also increased in recent years. As such, there is a growing need for green solutions to help acclimate sectors to a greener future. With this in mind, the EU-funded SPHERE project plans to innovate the field of construction and energy by optimising and enhancing the energy flow, design and construction process to decrease environmental impact while also reducing costs. To achieve this, the project will introduce a two-part process. The first step is integrating processes during construction and design, as well as manufacturing and operational phases. The second step uses an ICT system-based platform as a service to manage and synchronise data with the buildings.
Objective
SPHERE’s ultimate goal is the Improvement and optimisation of buildings’ energy design, construction, performance, and management, reducing construction costs and their environmental impact while increasing overall energy performance. SPHERE project will integrate two planes of research, innovation and improvement:
• integration of the processes under the Digital Twin Concept involving not only the Design and Construction of the Building but including also the Manufacturing and the Operational phases
• integrated platform that will be achieved through an underlying ICT Systems of Systems infrastructure based on Platform as a Service (PaaS) service to allow large scale data, information and knowledge integration and synchronization thus allowing a better handling and processing e.g BIMBots, machine learning , simulation etc.
This Digital Twin concept is in fact a distributed but coordinated Database, including geometrical objects information that forms a unique synchronized virtual model of the reality. As has been proven in other fields, twinning this virtual information model with the reality helps significantly in decision-making during each phase of the whole building’s lifespan (manufacturing, design, construction, maintenance, operation, retrofitting and even demolition). The SPHERE cloud-ICT platform will allow to interact all different stakeholders during any phase of the asset with a building Digital Twin model of information of the building and a scalable set of different software tools, such as energy demand/performance simulation tools, Decision Support and Coaching Systems, BEMs or IoT enabled Predictive Maintenance Algorithms.
The Digital Twin Concept, platform and Tools will be tested in four real pilots and finally validateted both technically and especially final social acceptance to accelerate market uptake.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
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08208 Sabadell Barcelona
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02150 Espoo
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W11 3SL London
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08029 Barcelona
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08940 CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT
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08014 Barcelona
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08014 Barcelona
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64340 Boucau
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08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
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08012 Barcelona
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2595 DA Den Haag
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83308 Trostberg
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08907 Hospitalet De Llobregat L
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4837DS Breda
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W6 7NL LONDON
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06800 Cankaya Ankara
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01650 Vantaa
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6850 Dornbirn
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66050 San Salvo
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H91 Galway
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Donegal
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Loughrea
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27777 Ganderkesee
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28015 Madrid
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28015 Madrid
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28050 Madrid
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28015 Madrid
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27100 Pavia
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27100 Pavia
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2600 Anvers
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2600 Antwerpen
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2600 Antwerpen
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