BUILT CoLAB will be attending the 6th ptBIM – Portuguese Building Information Modelling Congress, which will take place from 17 to 19 June at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto. Throughout this event, which is a leading event in this field in Portugal, Luís Sanhudo, Pedro Ferreira, Nycolas Glerean, Hélder Silva and Luís Jacques...
BUILT CoLAB provided specialist technical support to the Digital Fabrication Lab (DFL) at the Nuno Portas Study Centre (CENP) of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto (FAUP), in the development of a Quality Assessment Platform for Modular Construction Projects, as part of the R2U Technologies project, funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR)....
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...
