CognitiveBIM - BIM, ETICS & Smart contracting for Cognitive Buildings

The CognitiveBIM - BIM, ETICS & Smart contracting for Cognitive Buildings concept focuses upon a BIM-based development of a network of Cognitive Buildings located in different university campuses where technologies for the Big... [ view full abstract ]

The CognitiveBIM - BIM, ETICS & Smart contracting for Cognitive Buildings concept focuses upon a BIM-based development of a network of Cognitive Buildings located in different university campuses where technologies for the Big Data gathering, storage, and mining are increasingly adopted. The experimental and trialling role of universities is crucial to disseminate and promote an educational approach to the core topics as far as future cities are involved. The pilot and demonstrative buildings located within the Campuses provide a strong opportunity to develop social skills and awareness.

The core topics at the basis of the proposal are as follows:

• Smart & Cognitive Cities, to be conceived as future centred of people aggregation which need effective strategies and intelligent management for improving its own sustainability, resilience and adaptability over the whole life cycle;
• BIM-based technologies suitable to manage the built assets from the early design phase (comprehending the Briefing stage) to the disposal, in order to develop a monitoring- and control-purposed digitally enabled management, capable to fine tune and customize the service level agreement on a real time basis. The buildings' responsiveness acts as a key factor, indeed;
• Smart Construction Objects, namely ETICS-Related, aimed at transforming building components as service provision-oriented devices, within the energy performance-based contractual frameworks;
• unprecedented decision making processes, enabled by an IoT-Based rationale, tied to some blockchain-oriented solutions, able to introduce semi-autonomous criteria dealing with contract management;
• the enhancement of the users' involvement, according to a Man-To-Machine approach, aiming at improving the built assets' energy performances as well as the workers' occupants' health & productivity, according to tailored and evolutional criteria;
• a cognitive platform supporting advanced solutions regarding the Integrated Workplace Management System supported by some pioneering predictive data analytics.The latter point does entail to strengthen the digitally enabled data & information flows so to improve the built assets' energy efficiency and increase the users' occupancy. The key assumption lies with not only customizing the building's indoor conditions depending on the users' identities and behaviours, but also to directly contribute to the users' health & productivity. It should allow to reduce the poor performance gap occurring between the predicted and actual performances of buildings and to enhance the users' indoor comfort conditions while reducing the energy consumption. CognitiveBIM includes a twofold scale of intervention: the building-related level, so to improve the occupants' responsiveness by means of cognitive-based processes nurtured by data sets stemming from both sensors and apps. Such data sets will be managed throughout a BIM-related; the component-related level, the ETICS-oriented one, that could be considered as a test field to effectively implement a cognitive attitude. CognitiveBIM project will create a network of pilot cognitive buildings with different levels of maturity and will test an envelope-based retrofitting option by increasing energy efficiency and mechanical strength. Moreover, CognitiveBIM does imply an innovative concept dealing with BIM-based overhauls supported by 3D fast mapping devices, able to strengthen the contractual compliance assessment as far as retrofitting and refurbishment works and installation are concerned. Consequently, a blockchained payment option might be envisaged, too, within a smart contractual framework. It does mean to investigate and research on two different layers throughout an integrated and interdisciplinary framework including skills deriving from building engineering, Construction management, information engineering, building automation, building physics, structural engineering.