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Virtual Building Concept
- Not one non-redundant model, but overlapping representations of building products and processes
Redundant - (1a)" exceeding what is necessary or normal" (Merriam Webster1993)
- multimedia interfaces with realistic access to underlying models
- efficient utilization of personal competencies through computer supported team collaboration
- efficient, interactive building documentation
- increased possibilities for project experience capture and re-use
- introduction of intelligent and responsive buildings in practice
The main enabling information technologies are
- efficient access tools to physical computer networks
- standards/protocols for services on the Internet
- emerging object oriented distributed global operating systems
- multimedia (this includes virtual reality) interfaces in networked environments
- use of mixed and extended knowledge representations in networked environments
- reliable, cost effective and high capacity information storage devices.
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