BeTwin
Building Digital Twins for Built Heritage Performance-Based Management
Programme Bando “AlmaValue”: Scouting dei risultati di ricerca dell'Alma Mater e supporto alla valorizzazione a mercato
Call AlmaValue 2023
Buildings are responsible for a significant portion of the energy consumption in our cities and the resulting CO2 emissions. They operate according to the practices of the AECO sector, which is inherently limited in its capacity for transformation. Therefore, it is necessary to develop innovative solutions to improve the management of buildings, reducing consumption, impacts, and costs, while ensuring good usage conditions for occupants in the short term.
Digital transformation plays a crucial role in this context, allowing for greater sustainability in the use of the built environment. New digital tools capable of generating knowledge and informational value are required to support the decision-making of administrators of large real estate portfolios, often hindered by systemic constraints that prevent cost-benefit optimization.
The BeTwin project addresses these challenges, adopting a holistic vision to integrate the economic-financial management of built assets with their technical-functional management in a performance-based management perspective. It aims to improve buildings and their physical performance characteristics and to optimize the trade-off between functional requirements and the energy, economic, and environmental demands of spaces.
BeTwin proposes methods and tools to develop Digital Twin (DT) ecosystems for decision support in building management. Specifically, by integrating data from various sources and technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), Building Performance Simulation (BPS), and the Internet of Things (IoT), the project aims to prototype decision support systems for performance control and improvement of buildings, with a view towards market transfer.
The main application concerns real estate portfolios or large multifunctional structures, both public and private, characterized by intermittent space usage, such as university buildings, schools, recreational spaces, commercial facilities, and museums, as well as large offices adapted to flexible working and desk-sharing.
Project duration
15 months
Scientific project head for the Department
Coordinator
Partnership
Dipartimento di Architettura, Università di Bologna
Total Budget: 51.000 Euro
Da Budget: 51.000 Euro
Lecturers and researchers connected to the project
Non-permanent staff connected to the project
Angelo Massafra
ERC sector of the project
PE8_3, PE7_3