Sander van Nederveen Research on Design Support at

Sander van Nederveen Research on Design Support at TNO Built Environment and Geosciences 1

Contents • History • Organization, mission, scope, positioning • Projects • • e. Construct ICCI and ROADCON i. Build Other projects • Evaluation, conclusions, future TNO Building Environment and Geosciences 2

History • Round 1986: start of TNO Bouwinformatica (= TNO Computer Integrated Construction) • CAD, Data Exchange, Product Modelling, ISO STEP, General AEC Reference Model (GARM, 1988) • EU-projects • 1990 -1995 IMPPACT, ATLAS, COMBINE, PISA, MARITIME, • 1996 -2000 VEGA, CONCUR • 2000 -2004 e. Construct, ICCI, ROADCON • 2005 -2008 SWOP, MANUBUILD, …. • Ph. D-projects • Böhms, De Waard, Luiten, Krom, Bakkeren, Willems, Van Nederveen, Schevers TNO Building Environment and Geosciences 3

Organization (2001 -2004) Dept of Building Process Innovation (35 persons) Policy, Planning and Decision Support Team Design Support Team TNO Building Environment and Geosciences Chain Integration Team Building Code Team 4

Mission, scope, positioning Mission: Support multi-disciplinary design processes, using methods and tools, in order to help clients with better processes and/or better designs. Scope and themes: • Multidisciplinary design and LC-integration • Model-based design • Early design Positioning: • Product modelling tradition • Similarities with functional design/rational design and systems engineering approaches • Alexander, Eekels, etc TNO Building Environment and Geosciences 5

Project: e. Construct • • EU-project, 2000 -2002 E-commerce and e-business in construction “Building and Construction XML”: bc. XML Demonstration system: Contractor buys doors from Door Suppliers TNO Building Environment and Geosciences 6

Projects: ICCI and ROADCON • Interrelated EU-projects, 2001 -2004 • ICCI: co-operation and joint dissemination of 6 existing EUprojects on ICT for Construction • ROADCON: vision and roadmap for ICT in Construction TNO Building Environment and Geosciences 7

Project: i. Build • Joint initiative with Willems Van Den Brink Architects and EDC Consultants • “Mass Customization in Residential Building” • Integrated system, controlled by Customer, with automated: • • Building performance analysis Code-checking Visualisation and VR Industrial Production Data • Big marketing effort • Research under pressure TNO Building Environment and Geosciences 8

Other Projects • Object Trees • For railway projects • VISI • Communication in Civil Engineering • ASVB • ICT Architecture for ambitious construction enterprise • Demand Support by Virtual Experts • Ph. D-project Hans Schevers • Strategic Design • Knowledge Centre for Buildings and Systems • IFCs, Ontologies and Semantic Web TNO Building Environment and Geosciences 9

Evaluation, Conclusions, Future • Difficulty to reach Practice • TNO Reorganisation + poor financial performance 2004 => (formal) end of Design Support team + staff reduction • Still Plans and Ambitions: • • • Multi-disciplinary design, Supported by IFCs, ontologies and semantic web, i. Build EU-projects PSI Bouw: value engineering approach (De Ridder) TNO Building Environment and Geosciences 10