BUILDING LIFE focuses on existing developments, initiated by Ruben Santos on his PhD thesis (supervised by António Aguiar Costa and José Silvestre). The original work created a plugin for Revit to calculate the LCA of a building.
Several scientific articles have been written on this subject. The aim is to improve the work already done and develop an optimization design tool that will be able to help the designer achieve a more efficient solution.
* This thesis can be found here
BUILDING Life is based on the “Carbon Footprint” methodological guide for the AEC sector carried out as part of the FoC – Future of Construction project, which defines the steps needed to decarbonize the sector and the sectoral agenda for carbon neutrality.
Main Activities (ongoing)
- BIM objects and systems modelling
- BIM product data templates
- LCA/Circularity structured database
- Optimization tools development
Synergies
- Mobilizer Project and FoC Project - Future of Construction
