BUILT CoLAB, in partnership with CESAM – the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies at the University of Aveiro – and as part of the ODESSA project, has developed an open-source WebGIS platform for forecasting hospital admissions associated with respiratory diseases and other non-communicable diseases linked to exposure to air pollution, with an initial focus...
On 5 May 2026, the plenary meeting of TC 197 – BIM, the Technical Committee for Building Information Modelling Standardisation, took place at LNEC. The meeting was coordinated by BUILT CoLAB in its capacity as the Sectoral Standardisation Body (SSB). The meeting was held in a hybrid format and enabled members of Technical Committee 197...
The application period for the 2026 BIM Excellence Award is open until June 12. This is an initiative by CT 197 – BIM, in partnership with BUILT CoLAB and PTPC/Cluster AEC, which aims to promote and advance the digitalisation and implementation of BIM methodology at a national level by disseminating and promoting best practices, particularly...
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...
