Accord reached with National Taiwan University on joint development of BGD-BIM module
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1st September, 2014; Teipei; Taiwan
Prof. Čedo Maksimović, leader of the Blue Green Dream (BGD) project and head of Imperial College London’s Urban Water group, has reached an agreement with the National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taipei to collaborate on the development of a BGD, Building Information Management (BIM) module.
Prof. Maksimović (middle left) with NTU’s Head of Civil Engineering (Prof Liang-Jeng Leu – middle right) and the team developing the BGD BIM module: Prof Shang-Hsien (Partick) Hsieh (right) and NTU PhD student Han-Jung (Alaric) Kuo (left).
BIM is a system – various software applications and components exist – employed to digitally represent buildings and civil infrastructure in not only the three key spatial dimensions of width, height and length but also, the 4th dimension: time.
The development of a green infrastructure (BGD) module, enabling not only the visualisation of BG Solutions such as living walls, green roofs etc, but also, the simulation of their effects on building energy performance, is a landmark development. Equipping BIM with this functionality will facilitate recourse to green infrastructure during the building and civil infrastructure design and planning process.
Prof Maksimović is visiting Taiwan between the 1st and 6th of September for a series of lectures and meetings to strengthen collaboration with local BGD partners, including NTU, Taiwan’s Construction and Planning Agency and the Water Resources Planning Institute.
For further information please contact BGD Project Manager Dr Karl M. Smith: kmsmith@imperial.ac.uk
