BIM Technology_RESTORE WG4 Meeting Riga_F.Bejtullahu (2019_06)

1. COST is supported by
The EU Framework Programme
Horizon 2020
This presentation is based upon work from COST Action RESTORE CA16114, supported by COST (European
Cooperation in Science and Technology).
Ferhat Bejtullahu
BIM technology and possible approach for developing
resilient solutions
WG4 Meeting
Latvia, Riga, 27-Jun-19
Working member - spiker
COST Action RESTORE
ferhat.bejtullahu@ubt-uni.net

2. Building Information Modeling (BIM) as an
evolving concept
– Standard 3D
– Time 4D
– Money 5D
– Green (Facilities Management) 6D
– Lifecycle (Sustainability) 7D
– Occupational Safety & Health 8D…
…possible approach for developing resilient solutions
Natural and war disasters call for possible approach
for developing resilient solutions

3. Global natural and war disasters

4. Local natural disasters - photos from flood Hasanbeg near Skopje 2016

5. Local natural disasters - gjakova after war 1999

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The presentation covers the scope of innovative (regenerative)
actions, Resilience, and BIM (Building Information Modeling) concepts
as a solutions.
The objective of presentation to facilitate the discussion on the
question how these actions and concepts can be integrated to apply
in architecture theory and practice by making science-based building
decisions that will improve the overall performance of construction
projects.
Research is done in global and regional context focused in the local
conditions

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The specific objective is to identify and facilitate socially innovative
(regenerative) actions and initiatives as a primary source for integration of
resilience, regenerative economy and BIM technology in the daily life.

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Fast integration and implementation of these concepts using
technology will have multiple benefits for regional states,
especially in reducing the gap between developed countries
and region. Countries in the region can integrate these
concepts by improving social relations, supporting socio-
political empowerment (property tax) and fulfilling the needs
of the people for resilient, quality and environmentally
friendly buildings as a priority. This includes integrated and
responsible resource management during the planning,
construction, and use of buildings.

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Buildings and cities are under pressure of destructive forces
coming from the fire, storms, earthquakes, flooding, and even
intentional attack-war. Architecture, which in the last century
has proved neither stable nor resilient, is becoming increasingly
vulnerable to the effects of ecological deterioration and ever
more commodified environment.

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Understanding of context, trends, components, and dimensions
of resilience assessed have defined which building and urban
resilience strategy to be applied. Analyzing past and today
concepts it is clear that trends are going toward process
understanding of the resilience.

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Building resilience
Concept is emerging today’s architectural practice, which is
now challenged to design build environment that will first
shape and then sustain a dramatically different and uncertain
future. This concept has components to define and organize
dimensions of buildings as adaptive systems across physical and
time scales as the outcome, as well as a practical guide to
organizing design decisions and strategies that lead to specific
solutions of a process. Build environment has to be assessed,
designed and recovered in most important properties along the
specific dimensions of protection, repair cost, and recovery.

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City resilience
Architects are contributing to city resilience. Generally, city
resilience needs to be assessed, planned and eventually (after
disasters) recovered based on social, spatial and environmental
components and their dimensions.
The conceptual framework presented in Figure 1 is designed as
the general concept that will serve professionals and all other
actors. The conceptual framework will form the basis of a tool
that should enable all interested in city resilience to convene
around a common understanding of that idea and start to
identify which components, dimensions, and indicators are
most for making cities more resilient. The idea is to facilitate a
process of engagement with and within cities that generates
dialogue and deeper understanding.

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Understanding interrelations between all components,
dimensions, elements of chronic stresses and shocking events
will lead to new ideas and opportunities to engage new actors
in civil society, government, and business on identifying what
makes a specific construction/city resilient. Hopefully, in the
future, this concept will help every city to develop specific city
resilience index with specific indicators, sub-indicators and
variables in different categories.
Conceptual Framework

14. Urban planning dimensions
Build environment dimensions
Figure 1 - Conceptual Framework with components, dimensions, events and elements for evaluating, designing
(creating), and achieving built environment and city resilience
Conceptual Framework
Shocks
Infrastructure failure
Hurricanes
Earthquakes
Wildfires
Heat waves
Blizzard
Epidemics
Flooding
Tornadoes
Acts of terrorism
Civil unrest
Dam failure
Subsidence
Stresses
Affordability
Aging population
Environmental degradation
Sea level rise
Growing wealth gap
Drought
Species extinction
Aging infrastructure
Population growth
Unemployment
Melting polar ice
Global warming
Food scarcity
Increasing pollution

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For creating the specific building and urban resilience
architects have to define and quantify solutions for the
identified risks. Specified resilience is resilience of a specific
dimension of a system to a specific shock. It is important to
have integrated data infrastructure for all components and
dimensions of the system.
In national level, there is the need for including building and
urban resilience in the unified national building code that is in
the process of public discussion.

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ROLE
of architects in
creating building
and urban
resilience
Use
crosscutting
concepts
across sciences
Identify
Innovative
approaches
Employ all
necessary
factors and
indicators
Involve all in
participatory
design
processes
Communicate
visions with
creativity and
innovation
Protect public
health, safety
and wellbeing
Innovators
Researches
Leaders
Facilitators
Visionaries
Servants
Visual representation of stakeholders engagement needed in
different roles and processes for creating resilience.

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Architects know both the value and natural limits of
architecture and planning. We don’t know all the needs of
architecture in the cities after stresses and shocks in the future,
but we can improve architecture in the cities in the present and
plan their resilient designs in the future (codes for disaster-
resilient buildings/structures).
Therefore there is urgent need to expand architect’s role and
involvement in process of engagement with and
within cities and contribute to building more resilient. This
mean that we as architects have to assess existing social,
spatial and environmental conditions from resilience
perspective based on identified principles and in same time
improve existing and future architectural designs and spatial
planning (buildings and technical infrastructure) that will make
the basement for resilient community and city.

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Role of the architects in creating building and urban resilience solutions:
To develop innovative approaches for improving resilience across a wide variety of scenarios.
To engage crosscutting concepts that have application across environmental, building and social science
To identify and employ all necessary indicators, prioritize issues for decision-making
To protect public health, safety and wellbeing
To involve residents, jurisdictions and communities in participatory design processes
To communicate visions for the future imagined reality with creativity and innovation and
To employ visual (virtual) skills for representing and characterizing ideas

19. The conceptual framework is designed to identify synergies and the
way to achieve integrating Concepts in the architecture, engineering,
and construction (AEC) industry through identification of:
Key factors;
Context and Relations;
Activities around key factors (presented in the recommendations);
and
Tendencies, synergies and relations between factors.
The process of BIM, Resilience and socially innovative (regenerative)
planning actions and new concepts adaptation by professionals in the
region is relatively slow compared with the developed countries.

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Using analytical, comparative methodology and trends in
technology and resilience are identified strategic directions
that will facilitate the relationship among Resilience, innovative
(regenerative) actions, and BIM technology that can help to
integrate positive interactions and synergies between these
concepts.

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By starting a new approach with integration of these concepts will
facilitate solutions development towards their implementation
with full potential in the life cycle of projects. Starting solution will
be an integrated delivery project*.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_project_delivery

22. COST is supported by
The EU Framework Programme
Horizon 2020
This presentation is based upon work from COST Action RESTORE CA16114, supported by COST (European
Cooperation in Science and Technology).
Thank you for your attention!
Ferhat Bejtullahu
Latvia, Riga, 27-Jun-19
ferhat.bejtullahu@ubt-uni.net