SEMERGY: Semantic web technology support for comprehensive building design assessment

Abstract

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This paper explores developmental opportunities toward effective evaluation environments for comparative assessment of alternative building design and retrofit options. Such options are to be benchmarked in view of their functional, ecological, and economical performance. Thereby, multiple use cases are to be accommodated, involving a) novice designers, b) experienced professionals, and c) area municipalities. Toward this end, the rather ill-structured nature of available design-relevant information needs to be taken into account. In this context, theweb offers extensive amount of potentially useful information. Thisweb-based potential remains, however, mostly unexploited, as its extraction is hampered by lack of sufficient structure in the encapsulation and presentation of the information. The SEMERGY project deploys the semantic web technology as a promising opportunity to improve and expedite the process of information acquisition and collation toward populating design analysis models.