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    Alexander Koutamanis, Delft University of Technology

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    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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