IT tools are introduced to capture, store, manipulate, transfer and deliver information from and to persons and computerized artefacts. Research is focused on design collaboration, integration and structuring of IT tools in the entire building process with special focus on early and late phases of the process.

Special research areas, comprising both design and analyses, are knowledge representations and model integration, knowledge communication and discovery, multimedia/VR interfaces to Internet based resources, intelligent buildings and digital infrastructures, building product support information modelling and handling, and languages and systems for meta level integration of building process related information. Demonstrator development plays a central role in the research methodology and in the highly emphasized industry collaboration, and Design of Virtual Buildings, VB, - "a formalised digital description of an existing or planned building, which can be used to fully simulate and communicate the behaviour of the real building in its expected contexts", design, implementation of human computer interfaces, processes for knowledge handling and intelligent building systems.

Research

• Formalisation of building processes and products from systems viewpoint.
• Knowledge representations and knowledge augmentation.
• Space and time dependent Virtual Building models.
• Knowledge transfer methodologies. Learning organisations. Data mining.
• Collaborative work (Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Concurrent engin­eering).
• Intelligent buildings.