Newsletter Nr. 4 April September 2015

Newsletter Nr. 4

April – September 2015

WELCOME

Welcome to the fourth newsletter of our project:

“Collaborative Holistic Design Laboratory and Methodology for Energy-Efficient Embedded Buildings” (eeEmbedded), funded by the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). Its duration is 4 years. It started on the 1st of October 2013 and has a budget of nearly 11 M€.

Our project eeEmbedded has been running for two years now. We are half-way and interesting results are already coming out.

In this newsletter, you will find information about the open platform initiative, summaries of some deliverables (D2.1, D2.2, D2.3 and D4.2) and news about expert webinars and upcoming events.

We hope you enjoy this newsletter.

OPEN PLATFORM INITIATIVE

The EU is investing a lot of resources in Research & Development of information technologies to support energy efficient buildings (covering the whole umbrella of issues such as: design and re-design, new and old buildings, operation, control and management, etc.). Many European funded projects have developed or are developing similar software components. To take full advantage of the EU resources and to help the scientific and industry community progressing with new innovations, Prof. Scherer (TUD, Project Coordinator of the eeEmbedded project and project coordinator of some other BIM related projects in the field of energy efficient buildings) took the initiative to start and promote an open BIM platform to put in common, share, integrate and build-upon software developments achieved by different EU project or stakeholders. For that reason, the Open BIM Platform Services (openeeBIM.org) was born as a non-profit initiative and with the support of some related EU funded projects.

The objectives of the Open BIM Platform Services (openeeBIM.org) is to provide software developments configured as modular services, which are dedicated to supporting BIM working. The open BIM software services should help to downscale the development of BIM software system avoiding repetitive re-development of same-kind basic services. . The final goal to provide prototypes developed in research projects to a broader community, to motivate them to further develop the prototypes providing the horizon to even transform the prototypes into business cases, whereas individual property rights should always be respected.

Open Platform Initiative 1

D2.1 Holistic multi-disciplinary KPI 2

D2.2 Templates for fast semiautomatic detailing 2 D2.3 Holistic KPI based design methodology 3

D4.2 Energy System Information Model 3

eeEmbedded webinars 4

Meetings in the current period 5

eeB presented at… / Upcoming events 5

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D2.1 HOLISTIC MULTI-DISCIPLINARY KEY POINT BASED DESIGN FRAMEWORK

The objective of Deliverable D2.1 was to define and specify technically and semantically underpinned Key Points (KP) which play the role of control units guiding and structuring the complex design process and the multi-disciplinary design team.

The overall concept of the Key Points Framework consists of translating the requirements into verifiable Key Points in order to evaluate different design alternatives and analyze and discard some of them progressively in a guided process which is firstly based on Key Design Parameters (KDPs) in the design domains, secondly on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in simulation/calculation domains and thirdly on Decision Values (DVs) in Decision Making Domain.

Deliverable D2.1 provides the eeE Key Point Framework as basis for a work environment to support end-users.

The set of standardized concepts, procedures and software solutions which integrate the Key Point Framework are defined and specified in this document.

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D2.2 TEMPLATES FOR FAST SEMIAUTOMATIC DETAILING

Semi-automatic detailing by the use of eeTemplates enables significant improvements in the entire planning and shortens the time of design process, one of the basic preconditions in order to achieve better and faster planning results.

The objective of this deliverable is to elaborate a generic eeTemplate format structure together with its individual syntax components. The generic eeTemplate content is be divided into main data blocks and described in detail.

The figure aside demonstrates the use of eeTemplates in the TO-BE process from the application perspective point of view.

The output of this Deliverable provides a technical eeTemplate definition, which serves the creation of eeTemplates used by the Software applications integrated into the eeEmbedded System Architecture. Deliverable D2.2 is based on the investigation of the eeTemplates and the results demonstrated in the D1.4

(which were already summarised in the last newsletter No. 3), where profound insight was outlined into the eeTemplate content and its usage in elaborated use cases scenarios of the design phase.

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D2.3 HOLISTIC KPI BASED DESIGN METHODOLOGY

The objective of D2.3 “Holistic KPI based design Methodology” was to go forward from conceptual specifications to implementation specifications. For that purpose, conceptual outcomes and approaches of the first and a half year of the project have been collected and their IT implementation has been envisioned in order to identify and describe in further detail the implementation requirements and steps.

Therefore, Deliverable D2.3 addresses firstly the overall specifications of eeE Methodology implementation, secondly it provides implementation specifications for Templates and thirdly it describes Key Point specifications beyond implementation. This deliverable is a bridge between end-users concepts and developers work, it provides reference information for Virtual Lab IT developing.

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D4.2 ENERGY SYSTEM INFORMATION MODEL (ESIM)

The complexity of urban and building energy systems embedded within neighbourhoods requires to treat the design and operational phase as a multi-dimensional and multi-layered task instead of a one-way task from the supplier and contractor to the customer.

Deliverable 4.2 describes the basic approach of modelling energy systems while considering existing approaches and standards.

The ESIM mission is to fulfill the gap of handling all information demands and collaboration requirements during the design of energy systems in an appropriate manner. Within the eeEmbedded context the ESIM is a domain specific model that provides information of the urban and building energy system including the automation and control systems. It comprises functional, structural and physical descriptions of the systems as master data and additional operation data. It joins or connects information of certain domain data models (see Figure 1):

• Building Information Model (BIM)

• Neighbourhood Information Model (NIM)

• BACS and HVAC models

• Others (e.g. climate model, prices model, user behaviour model)

Figure 1: Shell Model showing the overlapping areas between ESIM, BIM and Neighbourhood Information Model (NIM)

For the information exchange of the ESIM and the mentioned domain data models the so called Multi-Model approach was chosen. The term Multi-Multi-Model describes the combination of multiple related elementary models from different domains. Figure 2 illustrates the eeeBIM Multi-Model and the interlinkage of the ESIM and other elementary models using a Link Model (LM).

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Figure 2: ESIM in the eeeBIM Multi-Model

The Figure 3 shows the ESIM core parts which allow to describe and identify energy system and sub-systems in a unique manner covering wide range of aspects supporting not only design but also the operation phase.

Figure 3: ESIM core parts

Furthermore, modelling environments supporting system and requirement engineering approach by using System Modelling Language (SysML) were investigated in this deliverable. Finally, the formal specification and conceptualization of the ESIM ontology were presented as starting point of an implementation.

EEEMBEDDED

WEBINARS

The eeEmbedded team will host expert and end-user webinars where the current progress will be shown and active debates between expert attendants will be motivated to get reflection on the eeE developments.

For October and November 2015, we kindly invite you to visit the eeE webinars addressing the following topics:

Topics Speakers Dates

Overview eeEmbedded Marie Geissler, Wilfred v Woudenberg BAM

Gloria Calleja Rodríguez, CEMOSA

Oct 14th Oct 21st

eeE R&D edges Peter Katranuschkov TUD, Klaus Linhardt IABI, Arne Tøn

EPM

Oct 22nd Oct 28th

Scenario Manager and Multi-Model Navigator

Mathias.Kadolsky TUD, Raimund Zellner ALLPLAN Ken Baumgaertel TUD, Eduard Mrazek ALLPLAN

Oct 19nd Nov 2nd

Modeling Energy Net Infrastructure, Energy simulations & stochastics

Pit Stenzel, Fraunhofer IIS/EAS Jens Kaiser, TUD-IET

Oct 20nd Nov 3nd

LCC, LCA & Return on Investments Analysis

Wolfgang Müller, RIB Amrita Sukumar, RIB

Oct 21nd Nov 4nd

Templating Kenneth Solvik, DDS

Raphael Schaer, Sauter

Oct 22nd Nov 5nd

Multi –Criteria Decision Support Francisco Forns-Samso, Granlund

Tuomas Laine, Granlund

Oct 23nd Nov 6nd

For more information on the seminar, please register (www.eeembedded.eu) and choose the best seminar according to your interests and agenda.

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MEETINGS IN THE CURRENT PERIOD

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REVIEW MEETING (BRUSSELS)

26 May 2015

The first review meeting of the project took place in Brussels (Belgium).

The team took the opportunity to present the first results to the European Commission.

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WORKSHOP AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING (MALAGA)

9-11 September 2015

The fifth coordination workshop was held at the premises of CEMOSA in Málaga (Spain). As in previous workshops, it was organized into general assembly sessions and parallel working groups sessions where specific topics were addressed by partners whose expertise and project role are related.

Specifically, the consortium was focus on: consolidation of all use case scenarios, consolidation of software modules, functional scopes and responsabilities, closing open issues such as version management or template management, pilot projects and IFC use, upcoming deliverables and development roadmap for the next six months.

eeE PRESENTED AT…

…Lake Constance 5D – Conference 2015

Constance (Germany), 4-5 May 2015

The 1st eeEmbeded Expert Seminar took place into the Lake Constance Conference 2015: “From Strategy to Implementation – bringing 5D to the heart of construction”. The main objectives of the seminar were:

• Get feedback/reflection from design & construction experts.

• Prioritize the most demanded functionalities.

• Do an initial exploitation test to identify which type of end-users would be interested in using eeE Virtual Lab

Within this environment, partners had the opportunity to explain and discuss on the current status and results of the project with visitors based on the posters and videos which were displayed during the whole day.

In addition, conference sessions were organized. These sessions were structured into: Project Overview, Design Methodology, Platform

Architecture. After each session, it was organized a timeslot for a debate between audience and speakers. Finally, questionnaires were distributed to the visitors in order to get feedbacks from

On the other hand, the project presented two papers:

• BIM-based Virtual Design Laboratory for energy-efficient embedded buildings by Marie-Christine Geissler and Wilfred van Woudenberg, BAM.

• Energy-Efficient BIM Lab by Prof. Raimar J. Scherer, Dr. Peter Katranuschkov, Romy Guruz, Technical University Dresden.

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…Sustainable Places 2015

Savona (Italy), 16-18 September 2015

The conference Sustainable Places 2015 is an annual event focusing on energy efficiency at buildings, district and city levels. It includes the following topics:

• ICT to enable energy efficiency

• Smart city design

• Public private partnership management

• Key Performance Indicator management

The conference helps to get in communication with other research projects in the same research area. It helped to get feedback in concepts and developments. The project was represented by Ken Baumgärtel, TUD who publishes a paper and holds a presentation about Ontology-controlled Energy Simulation Workflow.

UPCOMING EVENTS…

…European BIM Summit 2016

Barcelona (Spain), 12-13 February 2016

The aim at the 2016 event will be to address sharing experiences and identifying best practices in the implementation of BIM everywhere.

The eeEmbedded project will attend and will be represented by the Project Coordinator, Prof. R.J. Scherer.

More information: http://europeanbimsummit.com

This project has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° [609349]

Prof. Dr. Ing. Raimar J. Scherer Technische Universität Dresden Faculty of Civil Engineering

Institute of Construction Informatics

Dr. Noemi Jimenez Redondo R&D Manager

CEMOSA

Benaque, 9. 29004 Malaga (Spain)

Website: http://www.eeembedded.eu/