RESEARCH PROJECT – DIGITAL AUTOMATED BUILDING DOCUMENTATION

Abstract

The linking of digital building product twins with a 3D data model is of great importance for achieving major sustainability goals, such as sustainable and resource-saving planning, construction and operation or the more sustainable deconstruction and conversion or continued use of existing buildings. By linking them, it will be possible in the future to know which building products from which manufacturers, with which properties and which logistics data, were installed in a building – and where in a building-and what influence they have on the entire life cycle of a building. To this end, the project “Building contractors as a central instance for digital automated building documentation" is investigating possible solutions. Based on the construction documentation as the content basis of the information to be supplied, data models must be developed that make it possible to obtain the required manufacturer information in digital form. In addition, technical solutions are being tested as to how the digital information can be linked to the building information models. The technical solutions, which consist, for example, of scanning QR codes on the building product and then linking it to the model, will be tested and validated at various construction sites. In this scope, the question of responsibility, who on the construction site is responsible for linking the construction product information with the 3D data model, will also be investigated. The results of the research project will be presented in an experimental laboratory at the University of Wuppertal for hands-on and self-application.