Supporting the digital delivery of sustainable building projects

建筑物占全球能源消耗的三分之一，温室气体排放量的近20%。因此，国家、省、地区和地方政府、机构和企业采取了积极的经济、环境和社会可持续发展目标。越来越多地向“智能”或“净零”建筑过渡是实现这些目标的一个关键组成部分。尽管有这些目标，但建筑施工项目继续以传统方式进行，往往成本和进度严重超支；建筑继续表现不佳，特别是在实现能源绩效目标方面。建筑物信息的数字化有可能通过提供设施的虚拟表示来应对这些挑战，该设施不仅可用于优化设计和施工过程，而且可用作建筑物的“数字孪生兄弟”，以支持其运作。我的研究计划的长期目标是通过更好地协调和集成数字建筑信息和相关过程，使可持续建筑项目能够有效地交付。未来五年的研究将专注于数字环境的四个关键组成部分：(1)将影响采用创新技术和实践的项目交付方法；(2)允许将施工和维护知识纳入设计过程的计算设计方法；(3)使项目团队能够更好地了解设计和施工过程的性能的数据和视觉分析；以及(4)对设施的数字交付成果进行评估的质量控制方法。这种类型的研究需要多学科和应用方法，这将通过与计算机科学和体系结构方面的学院研究人员以及与行业合作伙伴的持续合作来实现。拟议研究的结果将使人们更深入地了解支持可持续建筑项目数字化交付所需的知识、流程和工具。这些进展将大大加强我们对如何创建创建“智能”建筑和城市所需的数字基础设施的理解。对于从业者来说，这项研究将使项目团队能够做出更有见地的、以数据为导向的决策，并更好地利用建筑信息来优化可持续建筑的交付和运营。通过为数字化和协作的项目交付过程提供更好的支持，我们将对最终产品产生重大影响，包括以更低的成本实现更高质量、更可持续的建筑。

Buildings account for one-third of global energy consumption and nearly 20% of greenhouse gas emissions. As a consequence, national, provincial, regional and local governments, institutions, and corporations have adopted aggressive economic, environmental and social sustainability targets. The increasing transition towards `smart' or `net zero' buildings is a key component of meeting these targets. Despite these goals, building construction projects continue to be delivered in traditional ways, often with significant cost and schedule over-runs; and buildings continue to underperform, particularly in terms of meeting energy performance goals. The digitization of building information has the potential to address these challenges by providing a virtual representation of a facility that can be used to not only optimize the design and construction process, but to serve as the `digital twin' of a building to support its operation. The long-term goal of my research program is to enable efficient delivery of sustainable building projects through better coordinated and integrated digital building information and related processes.  Research over the next five years will focus on four critical components of this digital environment: (1) the project delivery approaches that will influence the adoption of innovative technologies and practices; (2) the computational design methods that will allow construction and maintenance knowledge to be incorporated into the design process; (3) the data and visual analytics that will allow project teams to better understand the performance of the design and construction process; and (4) the quality control methods that will evaluate the digital deliverables of the facility. This type of research requires a multi-disciplinary and applied approach, which will be accomplished through continued collaborations with faculty researchers in computer science and architecture and with industry partners. The results of the proposed research will lead to a deeper understanding of the knowledge, processes, and tools needed to support the digital delivery of sustainable building projects. These advancements will significantly enhance our understanding about how to create the digital infrastructure necessary for the creation of `smart' buildings and cities. For practitioners, this research will enable project teams to make more informed, data-driven decisions, and better utilize building information to optimize the delivery and operation of sustainable buildings. By providing better support for a digital and collaborative project delivery process, we will have a significant impact on the resulting end product, including higher quality, more sustainable buildings that perform better at reduced cost.