Innoteam - Projects of TU Dresden (Selection)
VARIUS
BIM-based Variant Utilization by Simulation
Type: SMWA Directive „ESF Technology Funding 2014 – 2020“
Funding period: 01.07.2019-31.12.2021
TUD Budget: 218,879.24EUR
Project leader at TUD: Prof. Dr. Ing. John Grunewald
Project website: tbd
VARIUS- BIM-based Variant Utilization by Simulation
The aim of the research project is the experimental development of the software system VARIUS-Explorer.
It provides planning scenarios with the parameters expected by the building-owner and therefore supports the process of decision-making by giving concise key figures in a very user-friendly way. As a result, more well-founded decisions can be made throughout the planning process in contrast to the presentation of plans, lists and diagrams which mostly lead to information overload. Therefore, variants of the building (geometry, material, heating and ventilation system, user behavior, etc.) can be quantitatively evaluated based on current planning methods as part of an active decision-making process.
The presented variants are based on building physics simulations and they have a decisive influence on goals like sustainable constructions and energy-efficient operated buildings. The benefit of this additional planning effort will be shown to planners, BIM managers and investors by looking at the life cycle indicators. By developing new information and communication technologies for energy efficiency, the project contributes to the research fields of energy and digital communication of the innovation strategy of the Free State of Saxony. At all levels, from the simulation via planning and up to the building owners, the VARIUS Explorer uses concrete key figures as common language of all parties that are involved in the construction.
Building physicists as simulation experts provide building physics parameters and energy operating costs. Planners generate planning parameters (e.g. on architecture, building services, construction costs) and the building owner defines decision-relevant parameters for investment, risk and operation of the building. The software system allows to compress the high volume of data on lower levels of detail (specialized experts and planners) and simplifies it to parameters that are usable for clients or investors. For this purpose, open data standards and interfaces are used. New data formats, which are required to be created, will be commited to buildingSMART Germany for possible standardization after the end of the project. The aim is to support the openBIM paradigm and enable SMEs to equally participate in the new building information processes.
OSMAT
Optical sensor technology using microwave-based evaluation and transmission
Type: SMWA Directive „ESF Technology Funding 2014 – 2020“
Funding period: 01.04.2018-31.03.2021
Total budget: 750,000.00 EUR
TUD Budget: 272,763.48 EUR
Project leader at TUD: Prof. Dr. Ing. Dirk Plettemeier
Project website: tbd
Sensors based on optical principles that use light as input and output signals – so called optical sensors - can be used to measure a variety of different physical quantities such as tension, pressure, temperature, refraction index and absorption. They are typically insensitive to electromagnetic interference and allow non-contact and non-destructive examinations. Hence, such sensors are used for monitoring of buildings and technical facilities as well as in chemical and biological analysis.
Within the innoteam project OSMAT, optical sensors are supposed to be evaluated through radio in a novel manner, in order to use the superior properties of optical sensors more frequently and more efficiently in challenging industrial measuring environments.
In doing so, the project tries to radically reduce the high technical complexity, as well as the power and space requirements at the test site. Briefly said, the aim of the project is to create a distributed, decentralised and radio-based network of fibre optical sensors without limiting fibre optical cabling in mobile and stationary applications for the first time.