Research on Design Support at TNO

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Research on Design Support at TNO

• Sander van Nederveen

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Contents

• History
• Organization, mission, scope, positioning
• Projects
• eConstruct
• ICCI and ROADCON
• iBuild
• Other projects
• Evaluation, conclusions, future

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History

• Round 1986 start of TNO Bouwinformatica
• ( TNO Computer Integrated Construction)
• CAD, Data Exchange, Product Modelling,
• ISO STEP, General AEC Reference Model
• (GARM, 1988)
• EU-projects
• 1990-1995 IMPPACT, ATLAS, COMBINE,
• PISA, MARITIME,
• 1996-2000 VEGA, CONCUR
• 2000-2004 eConstruct, ICCI, ROADCON
• 2005-2008 SWOP, MANUBUILD, .
• PhD-projects
• Böhms, De Waard, Luiten, Krom, Bakkeren, Willems,
  Van Nederveen, Schevers

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Organization (2001-2004)
Dept of Building Process Innovation (35 persons)
Policy, Planning and Decision Support Team
Design Support Team
Chain Integration Team
Building Code Team
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Mission, scope, positioning

• Mission
• Support multi-disciplinary design processes,
  using methods and tools, in order to help clients
  with better processes and/or better designs.
• Scope and themes
• Multidisciplinary design and LC-integration
• Model-based design
• Early design
• Positioning
• Product modelling tradition
• Similarities with functional design/rational
  design and systems engineering approaches
• Alexander, Eekels, etc

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Project eConstruct

• EU-project, 2000-2002
• E-commerce and e-business in construction
• Building and Construction XML bcXML
• Demonstration system Contractor buys doors from
  Door Suppliers

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Projects ICCI and ROADCON

• Interrelated EU-projects, 2001-2004
• ICCI co-operation and joint dissemination of 6
  existing EU-projects on ICT for Construction
• ROADCON vision and roadmap for ICT in
  Construction

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Project iBuild

• Joint initiative with Willems Van Den Brink
  Architects and EDC Consultants
• Mass Customization in Residential Building
• Integrated system, controlled by Customer, with
  automated
• Building performance analysis
• Code-checking
• Visualisation and VR
• Industrial Production Data
• Big marketing effort
• Research under pressure

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Other Projects

• Object Trees
• For railway projects
• VISI
• Communication in Civil Engineering
• ASVB
• ICT Architecture for ambitious construction
  enterprise
• Demand Support by Virtual Experts
• PhD-project Hans Schevers
• Strategic Design
• Knowledge Centre for Buildings and Systems
• IFCs, Ontologies and Semantic Web

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Evaluation, Conclusions, Future

• Difficulty to reach Practice
• TNO Reorganisation poor financial performance
  2004
• gt (formal) end of Design Support team staff
  reduction
• Still Plans and Ambitions
• Multi-disciplinary design,
• Supported by IFCs, ontologies and semantic web,
• iBuild
• EU-projects
• PSI Bouw value engineering approach (De Ridder)