Conference topics in detail

BIM-based planning tools and integration approaches

• Digital twins on building and neighborhood level and their importance for planning, construction and operation
• Data models and standards in the context of simulation
• BIM-based simulation and calculation tools
• Automated quality control of models
• Model and data visualisation based on virtual and augmented reality
• Interfaces and interoperability at the level of building and city information models

District - building - system – human

• Machine learning in the context of user behaviour and operation
• Interaction users - building - building services
• Incentive based systems for users (e.g. social gaming)
• Indoor climate, indoor air quality and indoor air movement
• Comfort (thermal, visual, auditory, olfactroy), physiology
• Noise control in buildings, neighborhoods and cities
• Microclimate on district level
• Regenerative, decentralised energy systems
• Active and functional facades

Lifecycle-oriented modelling and simulation of buildings and urban systems

• Tools for building and district simulation
• Hardware in the loop simulation
• Algorithms for computer based decision making
• Holistic balancing methods

Modelling of building physics on construction component level

• Heat and mass transport models
• Modeling and simulation of material systems and degradation processes
• Acoustics
• Building physics modelling and simulation on pore-scale

Numerical procedures, optimising and implementation

• Numerical methods for ODE and DAE (and their parallelisation)
• Numerical fluid mechanics (CFD) and heat and mass transfer
• Libraries for optimisation and parallelisation
• Dynamic coupling of simulation methods, co-simulation and model-exchange
• Interdisciplinary optimisation approaches

Product data and databases

• Data structures, formats, standards for databases 
• Data availability, data quality
• Data acquisition, data archiving and processing
• Legal aspects - verifiability/traceability/replicability

Validation scenarios and quality management

• Sensor networks for model validation on component, building and districts level
• Parameterization, calibration and quality assessment of models
• Development of reference solutions for standards
• Data maintenance, long-time archiving methods of Solutions

Monitoring and optimising operation of buildings and urban systems

• IoT technologies for the energetic optimization of buildings, neighborhoods and cities
• Data management und analysis in monitoring projects
• Cloud based data management
• Communication of building services and energy supply infrastructure
• Optimisation of operation strategies
• Model-based control and operation

Teaching, training and further education in the field of simulation

Knowledge transfer into simulation practice and case studies