From BIM Models to Integrated Energy Efficiency Applications for Industrial Facilities

A holistic digital twin simulation framework for industrial facilities: BIM-based data acquisition for building energy modeling

“…The development of the proposed workflow has included the modeling of various industrial use cases to identify the necessary simplification stages for pre-processing an existing architectural BIM model, to be used as an input for an abstracted building representation in the hybrid simulation. Thereupon resulting are building-related data exchange requirements and a semi-automated data acquisition workflow, continuing previous work on data transfer from BIM to BEM for industrial buildings (Gourlis Frontiers in Built Environment frontiersin.org and Kovacic, 2017b) and further the holistic DT hybrid simulation via a manual information workflow (Gourlis et al, 2017).…”

“…Since none of the existing building performance simulation tools and data exchange schemata such as IFC and gbXML are compliant with the BaMa interface definitions, a new building thermal simulation solution was created inside the BaMa framework and required input information had to be defined and structured to apply the cube approach. The capabilities of the BaMa hybrid simulation, originally implemented in MATLAB, were tested with a simple prototype (Smolek et al, 2018) and were validated against EnergyPlus (Gourlis et al, 2017). The simulation results of an actual facility modeled with the hybrid BaMa approach, including the building, ventilation systems, and manufacturing procedures, were also found to comply with available monitoring data, proving the reliability of the models (Smolek et al, 2017).…”

“…A set of use cases has been used to define building-related information exchange requirements, along with information about TBS, production processes, and logistics, needed for the hybrid simulation models. First simple prototypes were developed to test modular cubes (Raich et al, 2016;Smolek et al, 2018), which then evolved into models of real manufacturing facilities from project partners (Gourlis et al, 2017;Smolek et al, 2017). For the domain of BEM inside the hybrid simulation, necessary input for the two related cube types, as described in Building model within the BaMa digital twin ecosystem and Figure 4, was identified based on traditional requirements of BEM tools assorted appropriately to the cube approach.…”