UHI Seminar presentation presented by Malcolm Murray about research and development work being carried out in the area of sustainable energy in the built enviroment and how Web based technologies can help. This work has been carried out by GreenspaceLive Ltd and The University of the Highlands and Islands

1. SEMANTIC ENERGY
Dr. Malcolm Murray
Product Manager - GreenspaceLive

2. THE PROBLEM - BUILDINGS
• Buildings account for ~70% of
electricity consumption (US)
• Reducing and managing this will make
a huge impact
• Very Complex picture
• Needs to be characterized

3. THE PROBLEM – ENERGY NETWORKS
FROM THIS:

4. THE PROBLEM – ENERGY NETWORKS
TO THIS:

5. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IS KEY
• Characterizing building information
• Managing energy networks
• Load balancing
• This happens, but is not connected
• The Web Can connect!

6. BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING
• Goes WAY beyond CAD
• Represent building
INFORMATION as well as
drawings
• Allows us to do much more
analysis and management!
• Gaining serious traction in
construction

7. BUILDINGinformation Environment
DESIGN INFORMATION MODELING
• Complex, but can manage the entire building workflow
Client Input Programming Visualization Building Performance Simulation & Analysis Quality Assurance
dRofus Adobe
Image Stitcher IES Ecotect Green Design Navisworks Design
Reservations Modeler Building Builder Navisworks Design
Review
FRS Review
SAP 3ds Max Maya
Studio Solibri
Oracle
Security
Energy
Sketchup Revit
IWMS AutoCAD
Concept Revit
Architecture
Rhino 3DS Max Drawings
Traditional
Building Information Model Deliverables Specs
Schedules
Rhino /
Grasshopper
Deliverables
Revit Revit
Computational Design
New
Structure MEP e-SPECS
Galapagos
Building Post
Internet Component Search Rhino Inventor Commissioning Occupancy /
Access Codebook Facility
Autodesk Seek, SmartBIM Library Management
Digital
Tekla
Vico Innovaya Project EcoDomus TRIRIGA
Best Practice Library dRofus CenterStone
HOK KnowledgeNET Building Data Fabrication Model FM:Systems
PlanOn
Archibus
Industrial Design
Facility 360
MRI
Alias
Alias Maximo
Inventor
Invent Rhino
Studio
Studio
or
11 Integrated data models and systems for efficient operations and reduced maintenance costs

8. BIM INTEROPERABILITY IMPORTANT
• Different Domain Experts can carry out their own work
• Links with others
• This is now beginning to happen
• Based on Web technologies (XML) – Still tend to be single
model focused.
• Growing support.

9. GREENSPACE’S SOLUTIONS FOR BIM

11. http://projectrapier.com
Capital & Lifecycle Cost Model Energy & Services Model Embodied Carbon Model
Based on Sweet Group cost analyses Based on BDSP Suntool rapid thermal Based on Architype in-house embodied carbon
of recent project data engine calculator
£ kWh CO2e

12. http://projectrapier.com

13. http://projectrapier.com
SketchUp
RAPIER
gbXML
Autodesk Revit Energy Modellers
SketchUp

14. gTools

15. gModeller – Building Information for Google
SketchUp

16. gWorkspace – Store and Share on the Cloud

17. gEnergy EPC – Cloud Based Energy Performance
Analysis

18. http://projectrapier.com

19. ENERGY SUPPLY

20. CIM (IEC 61970)
• Data standard for Energy Networks
• Can represent energy generation, conversion
technologies, networks, distribution technologies,
financial details and more.
• Can be represented in XML form.
• Currently used by various Utility companies world wide.
• Extensible

21. • Focused on modeling future energy grids
• 16 partners across Europe
• Completed last September
• UHI / Greenspace were involved in regional modelling and
information representation

22. SUSPLAN DATA INPUT

23. SUSPLAN KNOWLEDGE BASE
http://susplan.eu

24. SUSPLAN KNOWLEDGE BASE
http://susplan.eu

25. SUSPLAN KNOWLEDGE BASE
http://susplan.eu

26. NEXT STEP
Connecting These Areas

27. THE SEMANTIC WEB
• Basically an evolution of the World Wide Web.
• Concept introduced by Tim Berners Lee in 1999.
• Extends the scope of the World Wide Web to manage
data.
• Connects data across many sources.

28. SEMANTIC WEB LAYERS
In Development /
Research
Mature Sem
Web Technology
Existing WWW
Technology

29. LINKED OPEN DATA

30. SEMANTIC ENERGY
• Semantic Web based platform representing building
and energy related information.
• Currently a proof of concept developed by
Greenspace.
• gbXML based ontology along with others.
• New way of organising energy information
• Extremely Scalable

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38. WHERE TO NEXT?
• Need more funding – research
proposals
• Market exposure
• Link with other similar work (e.g.,
UrbanOS etc)

39. THANKS FOR LISTENING
ANY QUESTIONS?
malcolm@greenspacelive.com
http://greenspacelive.com
http://projectrapier.com
http://susplan.eu