Anna Wagner

Technical University of Darmstadt | TU · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences (Dept.13)

The digitalisation of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction domain introduced new methods for digital collaboration, i.e. Building Information Modelling (BIM). While this method focuses on building data, the distribution of digital product models is still problematic, complicating uniform product searches and automated product data process...

The advancing digitization in the building industry highlights weak points in the digital infra-structure. Due to heterogeneous software landscapes, cross-application data exchange is a frequently criticized process in particular, for which no satisfying solution exists so far. Open and application-independent data formats are necessary, and theref...

Model checking is an important task in the BIM collaboration process to prevent expensive planning errors. The submodels of the individual disciplines are transferred into a coordination model. Part of the transfer is a conversion into an exchange format. The exchange format allows the import into the model checking application. In the model checki...

Collaboration is the intrinsic element of the construction industry since construction projects involve a dynamic grouping of several companies. [1] studied the relationships among the companies and noted that some communication patterns among participants show a Peer-to-Peer nature. Digital technology which implements this Peer-to-Peer communicati...

http://docs.ogc.org/wp/19-078r1/19-078r1.html The purpose of this document is to outline the benefits of representing geospatial data using semantic and graph technologies. It aims to provide motivation for OGC members to consider the publication of geospatial data using these technologies.

The exchange of construction-related data over the Web via Semantic Web Technologies is gaining interest in current research. However, most research focuses on non-geometric data, neglecting the description of geometry. While several methods to include geometry descriptions into a Semantic Web context exist, no uniform approach or general recommend...

The advancing digitalization in the building industry highlights weak points in the digital infrastructure. Due to heterogeneous software landscapes, cross-application data exchange, in particular, is a frequently criticized process for which no satisfying solution exists, so far. To overcome interoperability difficulties, open and application-inde...

A reliable data exchange – often including geometry-related data – between stakeholders is crucial in construction projects. In this regard, data exchange frameworks built on Linked Data principles are very promising for combining disparate data sets. However, existing proposals to combine geometry and Linked Data either demand dedicated applicatio...

This is my PhD defence on the topic of Linked Building Product Data and the three ontologies I developed therefore: The Building Product Ontology (BPO) for generic product descriptions, the Ontology for Managing Geometry (OMG) for relating non-geometric objects to geometry descriptions, and the Ontology for Parametric Systems to define equation-bas...

With the current trend of using Linked Data to describe buildings during their entire lifecycles, the importance of product descriptions in a Semantic Web context is growing while most product ontologies are designed for mass-produced goods of little variance. But especially in the construction industry, products are often innovative and individual...

Digital planning methods are changing the needs of construction stakeholders. It should be as easy as possible to compare product data from different manufacturers and integrate them into the planning model without detours. Web technologies not only offer great potential to enhance existing ways of working, but also open up new business models for...

Geometric data plays a central role in the geospatial domain, architectural design and construction industry. For upcoming, new approaches to store building data, such as the Semantic Web, no universal common agreement exists on the combination of geometric and non-geometric data. It can therefore be unclear to users on how to represent their geome...

Multi-functional façade components allow extending façade functionalities from the building's physical appearance towards multiple other fields (e.g. HVAC, electric system). Integrating those complex products into the building design and planning phases, however, is not yet supported well enough to make their application feasible. To facilitate man...

The research project Solar Construction Processes (SolConPro) focusses on developing new methods to facilitate planners in integrating solar active façade components, e.g. building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and building integrated solar thermals (BIST), into the building processes. The decisive feature of such components is that they reunite...