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Product Information in Collaborative Design - PICODE.
Prof Per Christiansson
Lektor Kjeld Svidt
Aalborg University, Denmark
To Villum Kann Rasmussen Fonden
Wednesday, February 2, 2000
Background
IT is radically changing the way we specify, design,
and simulate building functionality, form, and behaviour.
Possibilities arise in some key areas
- Product information support to projects on global basis. Product
catalogues with property specification, references to installations
in near real environments (virtual reality), delivery of digital
product descriptions and models, online trading, experience
capture and proposals for product improvements, and trading support.
- collaborative design with active participation from client and
building owners, engineers, architects, contractors and O&M
personal.
- increased product and building complexity introducing intelligent
buildings.
- devlopment of Virtual Buildings for alternative design and life cycle simulations of buildings.
Aims
To create an environment and a activities characterized by
- practical tests and demonstration with industry collaboration
- aiming at providing the building industry with low cost tools and
concepts for product information integration in collaborative design
- support research and development in the area of digital product
descriptions, collaborative design and Virtual Building development.
Local AAU support
The IT in Civil Engineering group has activites and resources
which will support PICODE.
- EU project, DIVERSITY, and project under the Danish Center
for Integrated Design. Both in the area of collaborative design,
- projects in the area of internet based product information and
knowledge transfer (Lund University and Aalborg University)
- Media Lab with some basic eqipment for collaboration
- collaboration and networking with VR-Center Nord, Aalborg University/NOVI
Resources
We propose the following resources to the project
- Software (collaborative design review, 3D modelling, virtual
reality, database)
- permanent and mobile computers with high graphical perfomance
- supplementary I/O devices and furniture
- possibly industry doctorate student
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