Abstract
Digital Twins and BIM have the potential to achieve sustainability given that they aim to provide efficient design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings. Digitization of existing buildings to support building assessment schemes allows various technical and environmental parameters to be included for performance simulation and analysis which in turn could achieve sustainability performance assessed by a suitable rating tool. We will explore a novel process flow in the usage of laser scanning for existing buildings to support sustainability-led design by a new scan-to-BIM process, materials identification through hyperspectral imaging, environmental schemes, and materials embodied energy whole lifecycle assessments.
Brief Biography
Dr. Lou is a Reader in Project Management and currently leads the Masters of Science in Engineering Project Management program and currently serves as the Head of International for the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Eric spent a decade in construction, higher education, information technology, and environmental industries; and completed over £60 million in building refurbishment and new build projects before joining academia.
His research interest encompasses the trichotomy of people-process technology in the areas of project management, sustainability, environmental planning, BIM, and IT management within the built environment industry. His current research takes him into the remit of 3D scanning, spectral imaging, and industry 4.0.