FEATHERS is an activity-based micro-simulation modeling framework used for transport demand forecasting. Currently, this framework is implemented for the Flanders region of Belgium and the most detailed travel demand data can be obtained at the Subzone level, which consists of 2,386 virtual units with an average area of 5.8 km. In this study, we investigated the transferability of applying the ...

Boundary spanning systemic innovations such as building information modeling (BIM) are difficult to implement. Literature suggests that vertical integration facilitates the implementation of systemic innovations. This study examines the role of vertical integration in the implementation of BIM as an example of a systemic innovation. It analyzes and compares two opposite case studies from the Fi...

Research has shown that failing to recognize and understand organizational subgroups, their cultures, and their reward systems can result in a failure of system adoption. Infrastructure building projects for science are complex forms of collaborative work that involve many subgroups. As part of an ongoing research project, we use ethnographic methods to explore the roles, categories, and relati...

Several ontology building methodologies have been developed endowed with different characteristics, however there is not yet a clear method to select the most appropriate ontology building methodology for a specific application. This paper proposes a few criteria for comparing different ontology building methodologies, starting from a proposal derived from the IEEE Standard 1074-1995 for softwa...

Existing indoor navigation approaches such as navigation based on 2D geometries and pre-defined routing remain insufficient for many applications such as emergency response, delivery, utility maintenance, facility management and so on. The insufficiencies caused by existing navigation approaches can be overcome by using the advanced geometric and semantic information included in intelligent bui...

Uncalibrated simulations have provided useful data but often with questionable accuracy. For this study, a protocol was developed for performing the uncalibrated simulations and then applied to four buildings for which consumption data were available. The protocol implementation involved using two levels, which allowed a total of 40 hours to survey the building, read the as-built information, a...

Whilst Building Information Modelling (BIM) is rapidly being acknowledged as a driver for change in the Architectural, Engineering and Construction sector across the globe, the introduction of BIM into graduate and postgraduate teaching programmes in the tertiary sector in New Zealand has been minimal to date. New Zealand has an advanced albeit small economy, and whilst BIM is being deployed in...

We present a case study of a major contractor, Skanska, implementing BIM on two large hospital projects in the UK: the Saint Bartholomew and the Royal London. We argue that BIM is a set of practices or activities, rather than just a set of technologies, and describe the new ways of working that emerge through the implementation process. We focus on ways BIM activities were developed to bridge g...

In this paper, the implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) systems in various selected countries is reviewed to highlight the successful practices in this field. In several situations, BIM was implemented in conjunction with Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) for better integration and interoperability of various components of BIM system. The roles of the public and private sector...