Towards sustainability through energy efficient buildings design: semantic labels

An Assisted Workflow for the Early Design of Nearly Zero Emission Healthcare Buildings

“…Defining semantic labels provides a strong theoretical basis for enriching space-related elements in the design and shall help to cope with the previous issues; i.e., defining semantic labels allows designers to assign additional properties and values to building elements. Using semantic labels during the whole project allows sharing the vocabulary, not only between stakeholders, but also among the tools and the existing projects [25]. Furthermore, semantic labels allow performing energy and cost assessment of the early designs based on the labels' values and their associated properties.…”

“…Labels can be assigned at different levels, i.e., district level, building level, functional area level and space level [24,25], whereas assigning label values to spaces is not a simple task and needs experienced and specialized designers and a knowledge base containing the results from many previous projects [50]. The values for the different labels assigned to a given space allow calculating the energy demand at an early design phase and to perform an early cost estimation, without performing an in-depth analysis of the whole building and without performing complex simulations.…”

“…In our proposal, we use the healthcare labels defined in the STREAMER project [24,25,51]. STREAMER defines five types of labels, namely: access and security, comfort class, construction equipment, hygienic class and user profile.…”

“…The proposed workflow, which makes use of the labeling system for healthcare buildings defined in [24,25], is accompanied by a set of tools. It is composed of the following steps: (i) briefing, where the user requirements are defined in a table-based sheet; (ii) design rules' definition, where further user requirements are defined using a domain-specific language; (iii) design configuration, in which different design alternatives are automatically generated based on the user requirements and rules; (iv) model checking, in which user requirements and some rules of the building code are checked;…”

Tackling projects on sustainability: a Lithuanian case study

“…The user thereof uses the information at its sole risk and liability issues that need to be taken into account in decision-making process at different levels of project-oriented organization (Daneshpour 2015). It has to be incorporated within a project and project portfolio to support and achieve the objectives of organization (Tufino et al 2013;Hope and Moehler 2014;Sanchez 2015;Priess et al 2017;Sulphey, Alkahtani 2017;Čirjevskis 2016;Strielkowsk et al 2016;Jurigová et al 2016;Doubravský et al 2016;Traversari et al 2017;Barberis et al 2017).…”