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Description
Improve the performance of buildings and reduce waste through management tools and informed selection of building elements made possible by digital tools. Creating a Building Information Classification System optimized for Sustainability (CICS) based on the principles of Circular Economy. It will be used by design and construction professionals and those responsible for the management and maintenance of buildings. It will make it possible to unify terminology at all scales, facilitating communication, selection of materials and components, as well as an accurate assessment of impacts on buildings throughout their life cycle. A model is built with modeling software, which feeds energy simulations, life cycle analysis (LCA / LCC), conflict detection, quantification, programming or building management platforms. secondary materials increased in the supported sectors. Jobs created. Construction and demolition waste saved in the supported sectors and innovative solutions for increased resource efficiency piloted.
Summary of project results
This project aims to stimulate the circular economy by introducing a Sustainability Enhanced Construction Information Classification System (CICS) to be used by Portuguese-speaking building designers, contractors and managers. It will allow the unification of terminology at all scales, facilitating communication between agents and supporting material and component selection and accurate assessment of the building''s impacts over the life cycle in all dimensions. The ultimate goal is to improve buildings’ performance and to reduce waste through the use of digital tools that provide informed management and selection of construction material s and elements.
Publication of project reports and dissemination of the EEA Program in the website
Online publication of the report of the framework review and Classification Information Construction System (CICS) selection .
Online publication and continuous update, improvement and utilization monitoring of the Classification system, published in the form of downloadable tables, online tool and BIM software files. Dissemination of the system''s manual
Publication of the National BIM Objects Guidelines Manual.
Online publication, enrichment, improvement and utilization monitoring of the BIM Objects library.
Online publication, enrichment and utilization monitoring of the Webtool for Construction elements and materials query.
Validation of the project methodology on real-world pilot buildings and publication of the reports.
Dissemination of program and project goals to the general public in science events.
Trainning of Construction Industry Professionals to use the tools. Organization of 2 workshops, presence in industry fairs and publication of scientific papers.
The project consisted of introducing a Building Information Classification System optimized for sustainability. This system is oriented towards the BIM methodology and serves not only the sustainability component, but also other applications of a construction project, such as project management, BIM process management, quantification, compatibility in negotiations (conflict detection) and planning, and all phases of the product life cycle.
The tool for evaluating the embodied carbon of models of structures classified with the SECClasS system, according to the LEVEL(s) methodology, was published on the project''s GitHub page. After the end of the project, this tool will continue to be developed as part of a doctoral thesis. This tool, in April 2023, was being used by the engineering and architecture firm Quadrante (https://www.quadrante-engenharia.pt/), in the pilot analysis of urban rehabilitation projects at Lisbon City Council.
The project had a large communication and dissemination component that not only contributed to the dissemination of the project results, but also promoted the technical-scientific robustness of the project and the creation of synergies between national and international entities in the sustainable construction sector. The project''s communication plan included the creation of a video and the project''s presence on social media.
Other results of the project, not initially foreseen, should be mentioned:
- A3. Uniformat 2010 tables in European Portuguese _ SECClasS
- A4. Product Data Templates _ SECClasS
The project also had results that will have an impact after its closure:
- 6 scientific articles
- Community with 3 associated entities and reference to 4 projects with which synergies were established; two of the projects are from the Environment Program (CLOSER and Circular ECOBIM)
- E-learning course in partnership with the ATHENA project
- The project''s YouTube channel currently has 2 videos, with 67 subscribers.
The project will continue after its completion, namely:
- Doctoral theses by scholarship holders Sara Apparently (MIT Portugal scholarship) and Rodrigo Lima (National Civil Engineering Laboratory scholarship).
- dissemination of the classification system through a partnership with buildingSMART Portugal (https://buildingsmart.pt/).
- continuous development of the BIM object library and Product Data Templates in the REV@CONSTRUCT project.
Summary of bilateral results
Norwegian partner A-lab AS collaborated in all project activities, mainly in counselling on architectural design, BIM-based sustainable design, and participation in the execution of Task 6 (Pilot CICS implementation and validation) and in the dissemination workshops and seminars – Task 7 (Dissemination and national-wide implementation).