Byggenetværk København 13.11. 2002 Prof. Per Christiansson IT in Civil Engineering Aalborg University The EU DIVERICTY project

Byggenetværk København 13.11. 2002 Prof. Per Christiansson IT in Civil Engineering Aalborg University http://it.civil.auc.dk

The EU DIVERICTY project andEU 6th Framework

Per Christiansson

Aalborg Universitet http://it.civil.auc.dk

'Intelligente bygningsmodeller' - DR BYEN, Ørestadonsdag den 13. november 2002


BUILDING PRODUCT ANDPROCESS MODELS

- EU DIVERCITY PROJECT- EU 6th FRAMEWORK - INDUSTRY & UNIVERSITY COLLABORATION


The Virtual Building Model

•The virtual building contains all documentation of the building including drawings, models, documents etc. It will normally contain redundant information and temporal information describing discipline models and sub models of the building over time. Tracks of alternative solutions. Two time lines -real time during collaboration and time points in the life cycle of a design artefact.


DIVERCITY - Distributed Virtual Workspace for enhancing Communication within the Construction Industry

The objective of the project is to produce a prototype virtual workspace that will enable the three key phases (client briefing, design review, construction) to be visualized and manipulated, and to produce a set of VR tools that aid the construction design and planning process.


BUILDING PROCESS CHANGE?

Organisation

Person/Team

Analyses/simulation tools

Information container

Models access

Framework

Collaboration environment

Virtual Building

The DIVERCITY Framework


DIVERCITY project infrastruture


DIVERCITY project data

• - Shared cost RTD project - Key Action II.2.2 • (New Methods of Work / Workplace Design / Team

Work)• - Started in March 2000 -

Expected duration: 30 months• - Total cost: 4 M Euro (app.) -

Commission funding: 2 M Euro • - Consortium (10 partners - 5 countries):• - Objective : Design & Develop a Distributed Virtual

Workspace adapted for the Construction Industry

Contstruct IT (Coordinator)

University of Salford

CSTB CS SI SPIE

Aalborg University

COWICRS4 VTT

EVATA

Developer

User


DIVERCITY function, form, content, behaviour

DIVERCITY

Application data container

DIVERCITY data container

Collab.

Application data container 'CAD'

Appl.


Appl.


Appl.

Collab. Collab.

Virtual WorkspaceVirtual Workspace

Acoustics

Lighting Simulations

Thermal

Analysis

4D building site

Building Model

(IFC,…)

Client briefing


DIVERCITY Framework

LightinLightingg

tooltool

AcoustiAcoustic toolc tool

Thermal Thermal analysis analysis

tooltool

NetworkNetwork

Datawarehouse- structured data (IFC 2.x)- EXPRESS-based semantics

RenderinRendering g

engineengine

Optimization Optimization modulemodule

Geometry Geometry modelermodeler

ConstraintConstraintmanagermanager

Responsive Workbench

Immersive space

Desktop systems


Import Product of Model to Application

SPFfile

IFC C++generator

C++ classes

Divercity

CAD-Tool (ArchiCad)

Clent briefing PreCad


DESIGN REVIEW APPLICATIONS (more PRODUCTS)

Lighting moduleLighting module

Thermal analysis Thermal analysis modulemodule

External Source

Virtual

Source

Listener

Local Sound

Adjacent Sound

Acoustic moduleAcoustic module


4D Visual Product Chronology

Project Model

Schedule for buildability

Construction progress monitoring

Building documentation

VTT Finland


DIVERCITY - RESULTS

• Applications integrated into a extendible framework (also loosely coupled application)

• Framework based on Internet based client-server technology ( eViper). (Model and workflow driven)

• Framework for building collaborative environments.• Methodology for efficient user requirements capture,

user environment modelling and system development.

• Early design support (explain, communicate ideas, solutions)

http://www.e-divercity.com


EU 6th Framework

Increased Danish building Industry and R&D community Involvement in EU FP6?

FP6 is taking form with priority areas listed.

PRIORITY THEMATIC AREAS OF RESEARCH IN FP6

http://www.cordis.lu/fp6/eoi-instruments/tp.htm

There has during the summer been delivered around 15400 Expressions of Interests (EOI) to the EU Commission where proposals to large Integrated Projects and Networks of Excellence are proposed.

Another instrument to build networks and aggregate potential participants for FP6 R&D projects are the so called Roadmap projects. E.g.

the RoadCon, http://www.roadcon.org/

and Intelcity, http://www.scri.salford.ac.uk/intelcity/

.

http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka2/rmapworkingmethods.html

(IST 2002: Partnerships for the Future Conference - 4-6 November, Copenhagen

http://2002.istevent.cec.eu.int/)


ROADCON in a nutshell• ROADCON is a strategic RTD roadmap project on ICT in the

construction sector.

• As a roadmap project it will suggest and prepare actions for the forthcoming European 6th Framework Programme (FP6).

• It addresses "New ways of working and electronic commerce" (Key Action II) of the "Information Societies Technologies" (IST) programme. This is the area where most EC projects related to ICT in the construction sector are positioned.

• Start in June 2002 and end in May 2003 which is before the anticipated 1st call for RTD proposals in FP6.


TopicsExamples of potential topics for FP6:

• Model based ICT• Collaboration platforms• Knowledge sharing in construction projects• Life cycle support, facilities management (FM)• E-business and e-marketplaces• Best practices & demonstrations & deployment.• Standards• Contractual & legal issues• Mobile applications• Web services• Product libraries + intelligent objects.• User interfaces, 3D & Virtual Reality• Simulation and optimisation• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)• ...• More suggestions are expected from various interest

groups.

An underpinning idea in many of these themes is computer-interpretable (model-based) information that will enable enhanced automation, integration and communication in construction.

The aim is to pave way towards new knowledge intensive processes in construction.

Identifying and promoting new business models will be a key issue in parallel with any technology theme.

Other important aspects: working condition,sustainability, etc.


Main aims

• Form a strategy for future research and development on ICT in construction.

• Prepare and suggest RTD actions and priorities for the construction sector in the forthcoming European 6th Framework Programme (FP6) and also to the EC.

• Identify key actors and stakeholders and prepare co-operation between them.

• Seek consensus among research, business and user organisations.


Stakeholders

LocalLocalProjectsProjects

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Proj

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Proj

ects

RegionalRegionalProjectsProjects

Global

Global

ProjectsProjectsROADCONROADCONROADCONROADCON

ResearchersResearchersResearchersResearchers

AcademiaAcademiaAcademiaAcademia

TechnologyTechnologyProvidersProviders

TechnologyTechnologyProvidersProviders

BusinessBusinessExecutivesExecutivesBusinessBusiness

ExecutivesExecutives

PublicPublicAdministrationAdministration

BodiesBodies

PublicPublicAdministrationAdministration

BodiesBodies

End UsersEnd UsersEnd UsersEnd Users

PolicyPolicyMakers /Makers /FundingFundingBodiesBodies

PolicyPolicyMakers /Makers /FundingFundingBodiesBodies

Standard-Standard-isation Bodiesisation Bodies

Standard-Standard-isation Bodiesisation Bodies


Relations

European constructionsector organisations

ECCREDIECCREDI

ENCORDENCORD

ENBRIENBRI

ECIECI

IMSIMS

Global RTDStandardisation

IST projects (+ GROWTH, IMS)

VOSTERVOSTER

ICCIICCI prodAECprodAEC

IST clusters and networks

HungaryHungary

National programmes + support groups

Sweden:Competitive Blg

ITBoF

Sweden:Competitive Blg

ITBoF

F P 6

F P 6

ROADCON

GlobEMENGlobEMENGlobEMENGlobEMEN

PROCUREPROCUREPROCUREPROCURE

OSMOSOSMOSOSMOSOSMOSISTforCEISTforCEISTforCEISTforCE e-CORE e-CORE e-CORE e-CORE

eLEGAeLEGALLeLEGAeLEGALL

e-HUBe-HUBe-HUBe-HUBDIVERCITYDIVERCITYDIVERCITYDIVERCITY eConstructeConstructeConstructeConstructeCOGNOSeCOGNOSeCOGNOSeCOGNOS

Portugal:FEDER, MSI, AI

Portugal:FEDER, MSI, AI

Netherlands:PAIS

Netherlands:PAIS SloveniaSlovenia

France: PUCA

France: PUCA

UK:EPSRC, DTI,CITE, SIENE

UK:EPSRC, DTI,CITE, SIENE

ISO/TC59/SC13

WG6

ISO/TC59/SC13

WG6CEN/ISSSCEN/ISSS

bcXMLbcXMLISOSTEPISO

STEPICISICIS

W3CW3COMGOMG OAGOAG

IAI + aecXML

IAI + aecXML

Italy:FTI, MIUR,

ANCE

Italy:FTI, MIUR,

ANCEDenmark:

Digital buildingDenmark:

Digital building

Germany:BMVBW, BMWi,

GAEB

Germany:BMVBW, BMWi,

GAEB

Finland:TEKES, VERA,

UTT

Finland:TEKES, VERA,

UTT

ROADCON Confidential -19- Matti Hannus, VTT, 11 Feb 2002 ROADCON Confidential -19- Matti Hannus, VTT, 11 Feb 2002



National Contact cont!


ReferencesCONFERENCES ON PRODUCT AND PROCESS MODELING IN THE BUILDING INDUSTRY.

ECPPM

Christiansson P., Da Dalto Laurent, Skjaerbaek J. O., Soubra S., Marache M., 2002, " Virtual Environments for the AEC sector - The Divercity experience ". ECPPM 2002 European Conference of Product and Process Modelling. eWork and eBusiness in AEC. 9-11 September 2002, Portoroz, Slovenia. (8 pp.)

Christiansson P., Dawood N. N., Svidt K, 2002, "Virtual Buildings (VB) and Tools to Manage Construction Process Operations". CIB W78 Conference on 'Distributing Knowledge In Building', Aarhus, Denmark. June 12-14, 2002. (8 pp.)

Christiansson, P, 2001, "Capture of user requirements and structuring of collaborative VR environments". AVR II & CONVR 2001. Conference on Applied Virtual Reality in Engineering & Construction Applications of Virtual Reality. (eds: O. Tullberg, N. Dawood, M. Connell. 201 pp.) Gothenburg October 4-5, 2001. (pp. 1-17). [Key note speech].

Christiansson P, Svidt K, Skjærbæk J O, Aaholm R, 2001, "User requirements modelling in design of collaborative virtual reality design systems". International Conference on Construction Information Technology. Mpumalanga, Soth Africa, 30 May - 1 June 2001. (pp. 40/1 - 40/12

http://www.e-divercity.com


Contact

We are all involved in a continuos change process and design of the future together (with constant re-assessments). Great possibilities and time to do some creative, bold, and holistic inceptions at both universities and industries

http://it.civil.auc.dk

R&D collaboration within

- Building process models

- Meta classification

- Knowledge Management

- Collaboration and Virtual Reality

- Collaborative work on specification and design of next generation systems (Industry/University)


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