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Building Information - Representation and Management: Principles and Foundations for the Digital Era

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Alexander Koutamanis, Delft University of Technology

Copyright Year: 2022

ISBN 13: 9789463665155

Publisher: TU Delft Open

Language: English

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Table of Contents

  • PART I. DIGITIZATION
    • 1. Digital information 
    • 2. Digitization in AECO 
  • PART II. REPRESENTATION
    • 3. Symbolic representation 
    • 4. Analogue representations 
    • 5. Building representation in BIM
  • PART III. INFORMATION
    • 6. Data and information
    • 7. Information management
  • PART IV. MANAGEMENT
    • 8. Decisions and information
    • 9. Process diagrams 
    • 10. Information diagrams 
  • PART V. EXERCISES
    • 11. Exercise I: Maintenance 
    • 12. Exercise II: Change management 
    • 13. Exercise III: Circularity for existing buildings 
    • 14. Exercise IV: Energy transition 
    • 15. Exercise V: Waste management

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About the Book

The book presents a coherent theory of building information, focusing on its representation and management in the digital era. It addresses issues such as the information explosion and the structure of analogue building representations to propose a parsimonious approach to the deployment and utilization of symbolic digital technologies like BIM. It also considers the matching representation of AECO processes in terms of tasks, so as to connect to information processing and support both information management and decision taking.

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Alexander KoutamanisDelft University of Technology, Architecture & the Built Environment

Alexander Koutamanis is associate professor of computational design at the Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He has studied architecture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and received his PhD from Delft University of Technology on the automated recognition of architectural floor plans.

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