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UHI Seminar presentation presented by Malcolm Murray about research and development work being carried out in the area of sustainable energy in the built enviroment and how Web based technologies can help. This work has been carried out by GreenspaceLive Ltd and The University of the Highlands and Islands
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Dr. Malcolm Murray
Product Manager - GreenspaceLive
SEMANTIC ENERGY
THE PROBLEM - BUILDINGS
• Buildings account for ~70% of electricity consumption (US)
• Reducing and managing this will make a huge impact
• Very Complex picture
• Needs to be characterized
THE PROBLEM – ENERGY NETWORKSFROM THIS:
THE PROBLEM – ENERGY NETWORKSTO THIS:
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IS KEY
• Characterizing building information
• Managing energy networks
• Load balancing
• This happens, but is not connected
• The Web Can connect!
BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING
• Goes WAY beyond CAD
• Represent building INFORMATION as well as drawings
• Allows us to do much more analysis and management!
• Gaining serious traction in construction
BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING• Complex, but can manage the entire building workflow
BIM INTEROPERABILITY IMPORTANT• Different Domain Experts can carry out their own work
• Links with others
• This is now beginning to happen
• Based on Web technologies (XML) – Still tend to be single model focused.
• Growing support.
GREENSPACE’S SOLUTIONS FOR BIM
CO2ekWh£
http://projectrapier.com
Capital & Lifecycle Cost ModelBased on Sweet Group cost analyses
of recent project data
Embodied Carbon ModelBased on Architype in-house embodied carbon
calculator
Energy & Services ModelBased on BDSP Suntool rapid thermal
engine
http://projectrapier.com
http://projectrapier.com
Autodesk Revit Energy Modellers
SketchUp
RAPIERgbXML
SketchUp
gTools
gModeller – Building Information for Google SketchUp
gWorkspace – Store and Share on the Cloud
gEnergy EPC – Cloud Based Energy Performance Analysis
http://projectrapier.com
ENERGY SUPPLY
CIM (IEC 61970)
• Data standard for Energy Networks
• Can represent energy generation, conversion technologies, networks, distribution technologies, financial details and more.
• Can be represented in XML form.
• Currently used by various Utility companies world wide.
• Extensible
• Focused on modeling future energy grids
• 16 partners across Europe
• Completed last September
• UHI / Greenspace were involved in regional modelling and information representation
SUSPLAN DATA INPUT
SUSPLAN KNOWLEDGE BASEhttp://susplan.eu
SUSPLAN KNOWLEDGE BASEhttp://susplan.eu
SUSPLAN KNOWLEDGE BASEhttp://susplan.eu
NEXT STEPConnecting These Areas
THE SEMANTIC WEB
• Basically an evolution of the World Wide Web.
• Concept introduced by Tim Berners Lee in 1999.
• Extends the scope of the World Wide Web to manage data.
• Connects data across many sources.
SEMANTIC WEB LAYERS
Existing WWW Technology
Mature Sem Web Technology
In Development / Research
LINKED OPEN DATA
SEMANTIC ENERGY
• Semantic Web based platform representing building and energy related information.
• Currently a proof of concept developed by Greenspace.
• gbXML based ontology along with others.
• New way of organising energy information
• Extremely Scalable
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WHERE TO NEXT?
• Need more funding – research proposals
• Market exposure
• Link with other similar work (e.g., UrbanOS etc)
THANKS FOR LISTENING
ANY QUESTIONS?
[email protected]://greenspacelive.com
http://projectrapier.comhttp://susplan.eu
