Research project DeepWood completed
28.06.2022
For the last two years, Timbatec has been involved in the DeepWood research project together with the Bern University of Applied Sciences and Arts, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and other business partners. DeepWood aims to show how several construction trades can plan simultaneously in a common model.
The project DeepWood took up the challenge of how to realize a collaboration of several disciplines can be realized simultaneously in a common model. The model used was the Cadmakers timber design business model in Vancouver. The question was: can this business model, can the planning as it takes place at Cadmakers, be transferred 1:1 to Switzerland?
The DeepWood project team used the same industry platform and its structures as an example. Based on the idea that in this approach the "noise" of the interface problems of current BIM projects can be eliminated, new structures for the new structures for future real-time, cross-company and collaborative planning in timber construction were exploratively developed. planning in timber construction were exploratively developed and tested. In parallel, a performance matrix was developed that provides guidance on how prefabricated timber construction can be used by architects and planners can manage the project progress in a concerted way project progress in a way that is appropriate for timber construction.
The Collaboration in the Living Labs and in the research project challenged the project team. project team. Away from the logic of conventional architecture and construction software, know-how was in modeling was built up on an industry platform. The desire to avoid interface problems did not quite materialize. The building up of know-how in practice for modeling on the industry platform proved to be difficult.
Nevertheless intensive workshops with experts worldwide and the first users in Switzerland. in Switzerland, added value was identified in parameterized planning and the component-based design approach were identified. Previously rigid project structures can be and variant studies can be carried out in parallel over a longer period of time. can be carried out in parallel over a longer period of time. Even very late in the process it is still possible to make to make simple adjustments. With these insights, a second Living Lab was started in order to better understand the methodology and to develop a new disruptive planning structure. This disruptive DeepWood Process structure paves the way for a new understanding of planning.
The Living Lab 2 was supported by a design team from the two universities and Helbling PLM Solutions and proved to be a great success. The result is a new understanding of process away from rigid phases and the associated new possibilities, decisions in a project only when dependencies and effects are better effects are better clarified.
Despite the success in Living Lab 2, it is still difficult to transfer the service model Cadmakers to Switzerland is still difficult to realize. On the one hand, there is still a still need to be researched on the technical side. On the other hand, the entry barrier high, the lock-in effect has also challenged the research team, and the development of team and the development of qualified specialists for modeling is another challenge. another challenge. In developing a disruptive DeepWood business model. approaches to these hurdles need to be developed.
Project Team
Lead
Research partner:
- Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
Lucerne T&A, Competence Center Typology & Planning in Architecture
Research partner:
- Berner
University of Applied Sciences AHB, Institute for Digital Building and Wood Management
Main implementation partner:
- Timbatec Holzbauingenieure Schweiz AG
Further
Implementation partner:
- Dassault Systèmes (Suisse) AG
- Helbling PLM Solutions
- Stuberholz AG