Green Building decision support platform

While the green building sector has known great commercial success for a few years, the project leaders of sustainable constructions are still missing efficient tools to implement state of the art technologies and proper project management methodologies in a cost effective manner.

Contrary to other energy intensive industries such as automotive or aerospace, the building industry is fundamentally not centralized. A construction project is always carried by different independent partners  following different logics (building developers, financial partners,  architects, technical engineering department, construction companies). In  this context, an optimization process is always time consuming and  expensive because it involves multiple iteration; that is why outside some specific demonstration projects, the optimisation under cost constraint of building energy consumption is almost never achieved.

Our project aims to address this particular issue by proposing  decision-making support tools integrated in a collaborative work platform.

The idea is to build up a unique reference platform people could refer to,  to achieve demonstrative Zero Energy Buildings as well as "low cost - low  energy" constructions. Collaborative environment have already proved their  ability to improve the working process in large scale engineering groups.  Our assumption is that such a tool would be of great interest for green  building project; by reducing iterations delays and optimization costs, it would help to find better compromises between energy efficiency,  environmental management requirements and costs.

To reach these goals the developed platform will gather technical,  methodological and economic tools and make them communicate together. This  integrated platform will be developed in collaboration with a potential user(a design-builder being part of the consortium) and then tested on a real construction operation of his project portfolio.

Optimization
Integration
Green Modeling
Sustainable buildings
Efficiency
Decision-making tool
Zero Energy
Collaborative

Expert and leader of the green building industry

Strong knowledge of European green market

Present user of modeling and design softwares

Knowledge of green accreditation such as LEED and iiSBE

Innovation focused

Significant network of end user firms

Supporting software development through supplying real life cases

Sharing knowledge and data about green building construction

Reviewing and testing of software to evaluate accuracy

Evaluating performance and gains (in term of time and cost reduction)

Supporting and assisting consortium in the commercialization of the software to end user

Large design/builder

Strong presence in the green building industry

Innovation driven

End user who has a great marketing expertise and a strong network of potential clients

 

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