The Virtual Building
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IT in the Building Process The Virtual Building |
| [home] [education] | Last update 1999.11.14 (1999.10.06) [1999.10.06] |
| Goal: | The goal of the 'IT in the Building Process - The Virtual Building' course is to mediate knowledge about fundamental concepts, technologies and methods to analyse and develop models which describes a building, the building process and the digital society from design to application. |
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This 2 modules course is one of 4 with emphasis on IT during the semester 7Master of IT in Building Management education (calender). |
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Knowledge representations in practice. Exisiting classification systems and meta classification methodologies.
Acquisition and storage of experiences data. Design and development of services for knowledge transfer. Integration of external product and regulation databases. Introduction to conceptual modelling methods and languages. Future structures of virtual building models. Computer supported trading. Learning organisations and cooperating enterprises. Computer supported maintenance and facility management. Citizen nets and the digital city. References. Further reading under each lecture. |
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Oral test based on 1-3 hour discussions a group on a mini project or exercises collection. Assessed with the grade "passed" or "failed" with internal
censor participation. Examination will take place at Fibigerstraede 16, Group room, Monday January 10, 2000, at 10.00 a.m. Censors are Per Christiansson and Kaj Jørgensen. |
| Participants: | The students come from semester 6 of the civil engineering program. Here you can also get access to their mini project/exercises from this semester 7 of the Virtual Building course. |
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Friday October 15, 1999.
This lecture explains and comments the
introduction of IT in the building process during the
latest decades.
Digital models, standards and systems have been developed to support
for example engineering
calculations, stability analyses, simulations, graphic
presentations, time planing, resource management,
and documentaion.
The semester 7, 1999, project site can is shown on interactive
photos below.
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APPLICATION INFORMATION MODELS
Friday October 22, 1999.
Building products and processes must be described in
formalised data models before than can be implemented
in computer systems.
An overview is given over efforts and results in the
area of (de facto) standards development for formalised
descriptions which can be used in
building product models, building process
models, EDI - Electronic Data Exchange, vendor
building components models, and knowledge managements
models.
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Friday November 5, 1999.
Computers can be used to store information which
will mimic or support our own knowledge stored
in hour brains. There is a spectrum of different
computer software which can be used
to represent different knowledge handling routines
and knowledge domains. For example in connetion with
decision support, information retrieval and storage,
experience capture, collaboration, and design syntheses.
We will lok at the following computer stored knowledge
reoresentations - hypertext, relational databases, production
systems, predicate logig based systems, artificial neural networks, induction systems, and analogue
representations (Object representations are covered in another
course and will only be touched upon here). We will also in this
connection comment on knowledge acquisition methods.
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Friday November 12, 1999.
As the subject area is huge we continue to investigate
knowledge representations and how they can be used
to represent different parts and actors in the building process
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Monday November 15, 1999.
Up until now we have mostly discussed how different pieces
of the building process may be represented for later
implementation in computers.
Before we arrive to the actual implementation of our data
models in computer systems we must make so called
conceptual models.
A conceptual model is a high level description of parts and the
whole process we are considering for computer application.
It will help us to understand and describe the world we
are dealing with (even if we do not intend to make a
computer implementation). There are different conceptual modelling
methods which are suited for different or similar
application areas.
We will look at conceptual modelling of the building product and
it's time dependent properties (process models) during
specification, design, contruction, use,
and demoltion/recycling of the building product. User cognitive models and human computer interface models will
be treated in greater detail in the semeter 8 IT course 'IT IN THE BUILDING PROCESS I - IT TOOLS'.
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VIRTUAL BUILDING MODELS AND SYSTEMS
Monday November 22, 1999.
An extensive overview of attempts to make digital building models is given and commented on. The first models were made during the 1960'ies in key system fashion. We will look at the properties of these last three decade models and what we can expect in the future. CONT!
Friday November 26, 1999.
We will continue to look at the devlopment of systems
and models for handling process related issues - project
management systems, systems for electronic trading,
analyses- and simulation systems, and systems for
knowledge management. In this connection we will also
look at learning organisation and change strategy issues.
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Monday November 29, 1999.
Information technology,IT, will cause a paradigm shift in
our society from the art of writing, printing to the art
of communication.
In the same way as the car highly influenced the physical
design of our society IT will higly influence the forming
of the global villages.
New services will be designed and implemented in the
citizen nets to support
the village inhabitants - access to commune service and commune
facts bases, and possibilities for active participation in
the democratic decision process.
We will study and analyse ongoing efforts in the area.
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Friday December 3, 1999.
The building product itself will contain or have attached
to it IT-tools which will support it during it's life
cycle. Information handling and communicatikon support
will be given for the building inhabitants,
for the adminstration of the building and it's operation and maintenence
(O&M). The IT support will be in the form of conventional computer systems and sophisticated input/output units as well as in the building
and installations embedded computer systems.
We will investigate exisiting and expected infrastructures,
systems, and services in the intelligent buildings.
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Friday December 10, 1999.
We have time for additional penetration of certain problem areas. |
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Per Christiansson |
