PAST PROJECTS

BIM-SPEED developed a combination of methodologies and tools with one central information source at its core: The Building Information Model (BIM), which is the catalyst for a smarter, more efficient method of deep renovation for the residential building sector.

The mission of BIM-SPEED is to take ‘BIM for the renovation of existing residential building stock’ to a deep renovation level of at least 60% energy savings and to accelerate the BIM market uptake across the EU. BIM-SPEED aims to enable all stakeholders to adopt BIM to reduce the time of deep renovation projects by at least 30%.

The interoperability of a full range of BIM tools for renovation are accommodated on the innovative BIM-SPEED cloud platform. Throughout the 4-years, BIM-SPEED demonstrated the holistic solution in 13 real demonstration cases in eight different countries (Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain) The impact of BIM-Speed actions was assessed by 13 Key Performance Indicators (KPI).

ACE is proud to have several Architectural Practices involved in the  BIM-Speed Community of Practice and participating in our annual ‘Industry Day’ webinar. The Industry day is an opportunity for all project stakeholders to learn the latest developments about the project and provide feedback for the project partners.

ACE is also jointly organising an EU-wide BIM Competition with other European umbrella organisations. ACE is glad to have Dr Olga Venetsianou and Mr Tomi Henttinen as one of the jury members in the competition.

The "EU BIM for Building Renovation Competition" competition brought together multi-disciplinary teams active in the design and construction industry to present a building renovation project that applies the Building Information Model (BIM) tools and methods developed by the BIM-SPEED partners, on their own or in conjunction with other tools available on the market. The challenge was to develop a renovation project using BIM that results in energy savings and improves the comfort of the occupants while at the same time reducing the duration and cost of the overall renovation process.The participants were divided into two categories: professionals and students.

In addition, ACE has led the development of the BIM-Speed Training Material on the tools and methodologies developed by the project. Access the training material at the link here.

Finally, ACE EB members have provided feedback on the topic of BIM and procurement processes from the architects’ Point of view.

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BIM4EEB aims to foster the renovation industry by developing an attractive and powerful BIM-based toolset with attractive solutions for building retrofitting in order to support designers in the design and planning phase, construction companies to efficiently carry out their work and service companies in maintenance. Additionally, public and private owners will be able to use the tool that eases decision-making and asset management, thanks to the exploitation of augmented reality and the use of updated digital logbooks.

This toolkit is the basic instrument for increasing semantic interoperability between software and stakeholders involved along the overall renovation process (design, planning, construction, performance assessment and management). End-users of the entire renovation process will actively participate in the development phases ensuring the full matching of project deliveries with the market expectations. Inhabitants will benefit from the increase in building performance, quality and comfort.

BIM4EEB will deliver an innovative common BIMMS (BIM management system) with linked data and a set of six tools, as follows:

· Tool 1 BIM4EEB Fast mapping toolkit

· Tool 2 BIM4EEB BIMeaser

· Tool 3 BIM4EEB BIM4occupants

· Tool 4 BIM4EEB BIMCPD

· Tool 5 BIM4EEB AUTERAS

· Tool 6 BIM4EEB BIMplanner

BIM4EEB focuses on delivering high levels of modularity between the software tools enabling their use as standalone products or services, or as part of a consolidated kit, usable for AEC end users, consulting services or by other IT businesses, if required.

Overall, BIM4EEB targets the reduction of least 20% of renovation time, 15% the average renovation cost, 10% of net primary energy use for a typical residential apartment and a reduction from 3 to 1.5 working days required for a deep energy audit.

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The Erasmus+ project on BIM in higher and vocational education. The construction industry across Europe is facing major challenges in achieving energy efficiency targets, in particular for nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB), but it is also experiencing a digital revolution, with Building Information Modelling (BIM).

The project supports the construction industry, through education and training to up-skill in the area of technical innovation and digitalisation. BIMzeED develops and pilots 12 Learning Units as Open Educational Resources (OERs), and train and upskill 120 educators at European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and Vocational Education and Trainings (VETs). The Learning Units are common units with flexible standardised delivery (in class, on-line and on-site) suitable for HEI and VET training.

The initial training content includes nZEB related subjects with BIM maturity. The training content was developed and delivered in a Blended Learning format supported by an E-Learning portal, and the Learning Units are available as Toolkits to potential students, HEIs, VETs and SMEs.

The project team is working with various professionals (20+), SMEs, industry, product and technology providers, R&D and policy makers across Europe. By working with SMEs to tackle skills mismatches and promote excellence in skill development, BIMzeED is in line with the ‘renewed EU agenda for higher education’ (Education and Training 2020 strategy) and also ensures that SMEs are not left behind in this fast-developing industry.

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RenoZEB unlocks the nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) renovation market by increasing property value through a new systemic approach to retrofitting. This includes innovative components, and processes and decision-making methodologies to guide all value-chain actors in the nZEB building renovation action. RenoZEB develops cost-effective ‘plug and play’ solutions for large-scale deep nZEB renovation. The real (Estonia, Spain) and virtual (Bulgaria, Greece, Italy) demonstration cases show and ensure the replicability of the approach to different building types and climates. The technical tools will monitor the buildings before and after the nZEB renovation.

This is achieved through:

1) Innovative, holistic, cost-effective, and fast deep retrofitting methodologies for nZEB

2) ICT tools to support nZEB renovation

3) Cost-effective and non-intrusive prefabricated multi-functional modular ‘plug and play’ façade systems for the renovation of buildings

4) The transformation of buildings into Active Energy buildings in order to increase the post-retrofitting property value

5) New collaborative methodologies and decision-making process for selecting the best energy efficient renovation strategy for each building

6) New drivers of change for the Real Estate Industry creating improved post-renovated property value schemes

7) The demonstration of market replicability of the RenoZEB approach through real and virtual demonstration sites.

ACE co-organised a policy session on ‘scaling-up deep energy retrofit markets towards 2030 targets’ during the EUSEW 2019 in June in Brussels. Watch the session here.

ACE also organised a Train-the-Trainers workshop with the participation of 23 ACE members. Find the workshop recording here.

Tutorial videos about RenoZEB facade system and tools are available on RenoZEB YouTube channel and also in Udemy platform.

Two national workshops were delivered in Estonia and Spain (home of the RenoZEB Demonstration Cases). Watch the workshop recordings here.

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TripleA-reno seeks to change the paradigm that buildings use energy, as in fact people use energy for their comfort at home, work, etc. The aim of this project is to activate the renovation market, which faces many barriers, but not only technological ones. For this, TripleA-reno provides occupants and building professionals with the right information and tools in order to make deep renovation attractive, acceptable and affordable, hence TripleA-reno.

The project will raise self-awareness of occupants’ behaviour, by providing gamified support tools, which help occupants to make informed and economically wise decisions regarding the renovations of their homes. The benefits of the proposed solutions are tested and demonstrated in live cases (Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Spain) whereas the results are rolled-out on a wider EU scale through the TripleA-reno Road Show. The Road Show events include an interactive workshop on storytelling about decision making in residential renovation and present the gamification platform developed in the project.

In 2019 the “TripleA-reno Road Show” started with awareness raising events at CLIMA 2019 in Bucharest and at the Social Housing Festival in June in Lyon. You can watch a trailer to the Road Show here.

Due to the Covid-19 emergency, the TripleA-reno Road Show around EU couldn't happen in 2020. The project team came up with a contingency plan moving from a Road Show to a "Home Show", getting to the homes of the project partners. You can watch the Home Show episodes at this link.

ACE also organised an Energy Day on ‘Voluntary certification schemes and other integrated approaches in support of deep renovation of buildings’ during the EUSEW 2019 on June 18 in Brussels. Watch the session here .

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DigiPLACE produced a feasibility study for the development of a European Industrial Digital Construction Platform in order to modernise the European Construction industry and ensure its global competitiveness in the 21st century. The project did not develop the actual platform but rather a framework for it, to be developed in a future EU tender. In order to pave the way for a strong digital network environment, DigiPLACE engaged with a large stakeholder community, of which ACE represents the architects’ point of view.

The project team set out by identifying existing digital platforms inside and outside the construction sector in order to produce a comparative analysis of the state-of-the-art. DigiPLACE also provided an impact analysis of digital technologies in the construction industry and other sectors for identification of possible points of knowledge transfer.

The project also identified the gap between industries that are used to digitalisation in their production process and the construction industry in order to set a clear definition of limitations and barriers for the construction industry to overcome. Finally, the project proposed a roadmap for the future research and public policies.

The project was supported by an Advisory Board who validated the quality of the delivered knowledge and specifications. ACE has nominated Mr Peter Hyttel Sørensen the chair of the ACE BIM WG as a candidate for the AB election.

ACE has also organised the webinar 'Are architects ready for digitalisation' in September 2020. During the webinar the DigiPLACE team presented a European state-of-the-art analysis, examining how digitalised the construction industry already is, and which are the possible points of knowledge transfer. Furthermore, experts in the field of architecture and digitalisation highlighted the necessity of architects’ involvement in the 4.0 revolution. Watch the webinar recorded session here.

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ICARO worked on the redefinition of profiles and training of construction site technicians. ICARO assumed a crucial role in relation to the revitalisation of the construction industry, which needs a generational replacement, orientating young and unemployed towards qualified professions. Moreover, the project also included gender issues in the construction sector, since among vocational education graduates, only 10 % are women.

The project focused on Work Based Learning (WBL) methods and exchange and mobility experiences within companies into the training process. As a result, the project generated a beneficial impact on employability of young people, reducing unemployment at European level, promoting actions that facilitated a quality training that is attractive and relevant to the employment Market.

The objectives of ICARO were essentially three:

· revitalize the building sector by means of a profound generational turnover, steering the young and unemployed towards qualified professions;

· reverse the trend that sees few women employed in construction;

· increase employment possibilities by incorporating work-based learning in the training process of companies.

Icaro’s aimed to improve the planning of training activities that lead to the VET qualification at a European level involving students, enterprises and the system of professions. Work transition and apprenticeships must become the paradigm of training so as to introduce elements of flexibility within the curricula. In this scenario the experience of Work Base Learning plays a strategic role. The impact of the project was particularly relevant in the 3 countries taking part in the project: Lithuania, Spain and Italy.

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