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Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Raimar Joseph Scherer
Head of the
Institute for Construction Informatics
Department of Civil Engineering
TU Dresden
| Basic Education, practical experience: | |
| 1959 - 1963 | Primary school in Unterbalbach. |
| 1963 - 1968 | Secondary school in Lauda. |
| 1968 - 1971 | Draughtsman apprenticeship at the architectural office "Dietmann und Deeg" in Bad Mergentheim. |
| 1971 February | Professional examination as a draughtsman in architecture. |
| 1971-1974 | Studying civil engineering at the École Polytechnique "Würzburg-Schweinfurt" (university of applied sciences) in Würzburg. |
| 1974 February | certificate "Diplom-Ingenieur (FH)". |
| 1974 March-Oct | civil engineer in building construction at the headquarter of Bilfinger & Berger in Mannheim. |
| 1974 - 1976 | own engineering office for structural analysis. |
| 1974 - 1979 | studying civil engineering at the Technische Universität München. |
| October 1979 | certificate "Diplom-Ingenieur (TU)". |
| Advanced Education, practical and scientific experience: | |
| 1979 - 1983 | Research assistant at the chair of concrete structures at the Technische Universität München in the field of reliability of structures (SFB 96 "Zuverlässigkeit der Bauwerke") under Professor Schuëller's supervision, research focus: random vibrations of buildings under earthquake and wind load. |
| 1981 May-August | visiting researcher at at the "Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul" in Porto Alegre, Brazil working with Prof. J. D. Riera. Research field: Stochastic Earthquake load model; Developing a model for evolutionary spectra. |
| 1983 October | research assistant at the centre of "computing in civil engineering", Prof. H. Werner, research focus: structural vibrations and CAD. |
| 1984 July | Acquiring PhD at the faculty of Civil Engineering and Surveying of the TU München; Title: Describing the transient structure loads resulting from earthquake waves as a random process. Supervision: Prof. Schuëller, Prof. Grundmann, Prof. Angenheister. |
| 1984 October-November | visiting researcher at the "Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul" in Porto Alegre, Brasil, working with Prof. J. D. Riera. Research topic: Scaling laws for earthquake respond spectra at rock sites. |
| 1984 December | Construction company Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG in München, IT department. Topics: graphically interactive user interfaces (like the later Windows 1990) for structural analysis tools and introduction, training and testing CAD within the company. |
| 1986 January | On leave for 18 months for Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG at Nemetschek Software AG in Munich for further development of the CAD program ALLPLAN according to the agreements with Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG. Main work: reinforcement layout and adaptation from DOS to UNIX. |
| University professor phase: | |
| 1987 July | Professor for CAD and reliability of concrete structures at the Institute of Structural Concrete and Building Materials Technology at the University of Karlsruhe. Teaching in all three areas. Research in structure safety and in applied computer science with focus on artificial intelligence with three and data structures in construction with five research-funded assistant researchers. Substantial contributions to the standardization of data structures in STEP. |
| 1989 | Member of the German DIN-NAM and STEP standardization bodies, Vice-Chair of the building product modelling (BIM) group. |
| 1994 April | Professor for Computer applications in civil engineering, Institute of Mechanics and Structural Analysis at the Technische Universität Dresden. Teaching primary, fundamental and advanced courses with three permanent teaching assistants. Establishing a research staff in the area of construction informatics with up to 25 employees. Significant contributions to the standardization of Data structures in STEP and IFC. |
| 1994 June | Founding member of EG-SEA-AI in Lausanne, later renamed the EC-ICE, which is organizing the annual EG-ICE conference. |
| 1994 October | Founding and leading the European Association on Product and Process Modelling (EAPPM) that initiates and holds the biennial European Conference on Product and Process Modelling (ECPPM), the first European BIM conference. |
| 1996 July | Member of the Scientific Board of the journal "Advanced Engineering Informatics", Elsevier Publishers, The Netherlands.. |
| 1999 September | Member of the Scientific Board of the electronic journal "Information Technology in Construction", Intl. Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CiB). |
| 2003 October | Foundation of the Institute of Construction Informatics. |
| 2004 February | Founding the Dresdner "Bauinformatik-Gesprächskreis", DD-BIG. |
| 2004 July | Member of the Scientific Board of the journal "Construction Innovation", Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK. |
| 2005 July | organizing the 22nd international CiB-W78 conference. |
| 2007 February | member of the Scientific Board of the journal "Automation in Construction", Elsevier Publishers, The Netherlands. |
| 2007 October | Launching the competence studies programme "Construction Informatics" offering courses in the advanced study programme (Master programme) of civil engineering at the TU Dresden. |
| 2008 September | Hosting the 20th German conference "Forum Bauinformatik". |
| 2009 April | Initiating and co-ordinating Mefisto, the "BMBF-Leitprojekt" (leading project of the Ministry of Research) for ICT in construction, which develops the virtual construction enterprise based on BIM multi-model and construction simulation with a 16 million Euro budget. |
| 2010 October | Founding the German annual conference "Bauinformatik - Baupraxis". |
| 2014 November | Received the ZUSE Medal, the annual highest German Award for informatics |
| 2015 January | Book on Information Management Systems in Construction (in German), Springer, 2Vol, 950 p. |
| 2017 October |
Initiating and co-ordinating eeEmbedded, An EU IP project for ICT in energy-efficient buildings, which develops the holistic virtual engineering lab based on BIM multi-model and performance simulation with a 11 million Euro budget. |
| 2017 September | Hosting the 26th German conference „Forum Bauinformatik“. |
| 2017 October | Start of a 4 years full Senior Professor ship for Construction Informatics at the Technische Universität Dresden |
| Special research results: | |
| 1995 | First BIM server; developed in the EU project COMBI. |
| 1998 | First integrated BIM document management system; developed in the EU project ToCEE. |
| 2001 | First virtual BIM based lab; developed in the EU project ISTforCE. |
| 2003 | First German mobile computer for construction sites; developed in the BMBF project IuK-System Bau. |
| 2003 | First freely configurable BIM filter based on the newly developed methode GMSD: Generalized Model Subset Definition; developed in a DFG project (DFG: German research foundation). |
| 2006 | First grid based BIM management system; developed in the EU project InteliGrid in co-operation with Prof. Turk. |
| 2011 | First BIM based virtual lab for energy-efficient buildings; developed in the EU project HESMOS. |
| 2011 | First multi-model management system mit the multi-model exchange container approach; developed in the BMBF project Mefisto. |
| 2012 | First freely configurable multi-model filter toolbox; developed in the BMBF project Mefisto. |