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TNO Built Environment and Geosciences

Research on Design Support at TNO

Sander van Nederveen

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Contents

• History• Organization, mission, scope, positioning• Projects

• eConstruct• ICCI and ROADCON• iBuild• Other projects

• Evaluation, conclusions, future

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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 eConstruct, ICCI, ROADCON• 2005-2008 SWOP, MANUBUILD, ….

• PhD-projects • Böhms, De Waard, Luiten, Krom, Bakkeren, Willems, Van Nederveen,

Schevers

TS PrefabConcreteStructure

FU BuildingStructuralSystem

TS PrefabConcreteColumn

FU Column

TS PrefabConcrete Wall

FU Load-bearing Wall

TS PrefabConcrete Floor

FU Floor

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Organization (2001-2004)

Dept of Building Process

Innovation (35 persons)

Design Support

Team

Chain Integration

Team

Building Code

Team

Policy, Planning

and Decision

Support Team

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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

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Project: eConstruct

• EU-project, 2000-2002• E-commerce and e-business in construction• “Building and Construction XML”: bcXML• Demonstration system: Contractor buys doors from Door

Suppliers

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Projects: ICCI and ROADCON

• Interrelated EU-projects, 2001-2004• ICCI: co-operation and joint dissemination of 6 existing EU-

projects on ICT for Construction • ROADCON: vision and roadmap for ICT in Construction

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Project: iBuild• 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

WoningAdviesCentrum

Project-ontwikkelaar

Assemblagebedrijf

Industriëletoeleverancier

Bestemmingsplan Wijkdeelplan

Woonwensen

DVD:-Ontwerp,tekeningen,bestek-Stuklijst-Planning

3DvisualisatieSchaalmodel

WoningAdviesCentrum

Project-ontwikkelaar

Assemblagebedrijf

Industriëletoeleverancier

Bestemmingsplan Wijkdeelplan

Woonwensen

DVD:-Ontwerp,tekeningen,bestek-Stuklijst-Planning

3DvisualisatieSchaalmodel

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Other Projects

• Object Trees • For railway projects

• VISI• Communication in Civil Engineering

• ASVB• ICT Architecture for ambitious construction enterprise

• Demand Support by Virtual Experts • PhD-project Hans Schevers

• Strategic Design • Knowledge Centre for Buildings and Systems

• IFCs, Ontologies and Semantic Web

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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, • iBuild• EU-projects• PSI Bouw: value engineering approach (De Ridder)