Supporting the digital delivery of sustainable building projects

建筑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、环境和社会可持续性目标。向“智能”或“净零”建筑的过渡是实现这些目标的关键组成部分。尽管有这些目标，建筑施工项目仍然以传统的方式交付，经常带来巨大的成本和进度超支；建筑物的表现仍然不佳，特别是在满足能源性能目标方面。建筑信息的数字化有可能通过提供设施的虚拟表示来解决这些挑战，该设施不仅可以用于优化设计和施工过程，还可以作为建筑的“数字孪生体”来支持其运营。我的研究项目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流程，实现可持续建筑项目的有效交付。未来五年的研究将集中在这个数字环境的四个关键组成部分：(1)将影响创新技术和实践采用的项目交付方法；(2)将建筑和维护知识纳入设计过程的计算设计方法；(3)数据和可视化分析，使项目团队能够更好地了解设计和施工过程的表现；(4)评估设施数字化交付成果的质量控制方法。这种类型的研究需要多学科和应用的方法，这将通过与计算机科学和架构的教师研究人员以及与行业合作伙伴的持续合作来完成。拟议研究的结果将导致对支持可持续建筑项目数字化交付所需的知识、流程和工具的更深入理解。这些进步将大大提高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明智的、数据驱动的决策，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，包括更高质量，更可持续的建筑，以更低的成本表现得更好。

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.