As part of the DIGITALbuilt project, BUILT CoLAB offers a ‘Test Before Invest’ service for software used to assess the environmental impact of buildings. This service enables companies to trial and evaluate software in a test environment supported by experts, allowing them to explore the tool’s features for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and the calculation...
As part of the DIGITALbuilt project, BUILT CoLAB offers a ‘Test Before Invest’ service for BIM methodology and digitalisation solutions. This service enables companies to try out, in a hands-on manner and with expert guidance, various digital tools and workflows tailored to the AEC sector, including demonstrations of BIM modelling, coordination and visualisation software, point...
BUILT CoLAB is developing a national platform designed to support companies in the AEC sector with the interpretation and structuring of bill of quantities, as well as the analysis and management of tenders, using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large Language Models (LLM). This platform, known as BoQ.AI, enables users to...
João Moutinho, director of BUILT CoLAB, took part in the panel discussion at the workshop entitled “Building Capacity for Innovation in the AEC Sector: New Trends and Opportunities in Green and Digital Financing”, which took place on 26 March in Porto as part of the DIGITALbuilt project. At this round-table discussion, João Moutinho, alongside António...
In January, BUILT CoLAB began a collaboration with Águas e Energia do Porto (AEdP) with the aim of supporting the organisation in adopting new information technologies and integrating BIM methodology into its workflows. Over the coming months, BUILT CoLAB will therefore be rolling out a series of initiatives that will enable AEdP to achieve its...
BUILT CoLAB has been collaborating with FEUP on the development of a Digital Twins platform dedicated to the structural monitoring and management of historic monuments. This platform is based on the BIM model of the infrastructure to be analysed, providing access to all the information contained within that model and, in addition, enabling the monitoring...
In December, BUILT CoLAB concluded its collaboration with ATIC – the Portuguese Cement Association, which aimed to support the development of C2Ø – Construction to Zero, the Decarbonisation Roadmap for the construction sector and associated industrial activities. Throughout the several months of this partnership, BUILT CoLAB was involved in a range of activities, including content...
BUILT CoLAB recently established a partnership with FAUP to develop a plugin for Autodesk Revit that allows AEC professionals to model stereotomic structures in BIM environments. This partnership took place within the scope of STBIM – StereotomicBIM, an exploratory project funded by FCT, whose main research objective is to explore the editing of stereotomic elements...
As part of the Sustainable Stone project, BUILT CoLAB has developed two tools that aim to enable the creation and provision of immersive 360º training content, supporting the operation of the Mineral Resources Science Centre in Porto de Mós: EditorRV, standalone software for Windows, and VisualizadorRV, an application for Virtual Reality devices. EditorRV allows the...
In October, presentations of the Porto Environmental Index were held at AICCOPN, the Northern Regional Section of the Order of Architects, and the Northern Region Order of Engineers, with comments from BUILT CoLAB at the invitation of Porto City Council. BUILT CoLAB was present at these three sessions with comments from João Moutinho (at OE),...
