We have identified (but not limited to) four main relevant topics for our investigations that you can discover below: Smart city & Urban engineering, Data-aided construction, Materials, Intuitive (smart) buildings.
Data-aided construction
With the implementation of digital technologies in the construction industry, huge quantities of various data can now be collected and used at each stage of a construction project for specifying client needs, designing, constructing, operating, maintaining, recycling. Hopefully, this will help improving the global environmental, societal, and economical performance of the project. Examples of projects:
Materials
Materials play of course a key role in optimizing the environmental, societal, and economical impacts of constructions as well as the comfort of the users (acoustic, thermal...) Examples of projects:
Intuitive buildings
Building need to adapt to human needs and not the other way around! Intuitive buildings are smart buildings that provide the best solutions to complex problems such as balancing the energy consumption and the comfort of the users. Examples of projects:
Smart city & Urban engineering
In our connected world, the relevant scale for sustainable construction often is larger than the building itself. But urban development programs have never been so complex! They have to be designed, managed, and maintained in a changing context that involve many stakeholders and various future users. Examples of projects: