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Robert Gordon University (RGU) Aberdeen has launched a survey on ‘Digital representation of buildings: towards Digital twins’.
…ambition for a national existing buildings database is to create a single point of access and truth…
Robert Gordon University writes:
This survey aims at identification of current practices in assessing and managing maintenance, repair, retrofit and other building related works in the social housing sector in Scotland. It also asks questions around required and aspirational outcomes and outputs of the Existing Building Database, including content, context, accuracy of data and data protection considerations. The answers will aid the development of summary document with a set of recommendations based on responses from the survey and 2 live workshops held with stakeholder groups in March and May 2024. The project is delivered by BE-ST in collaboration with Robert Gordon University and Construction Leadership Forum.
The questionnaire consists of mostly multiple choice and yes/no questions and should take approximately 15-20 minutes. Please note that all data collected will be anonymised. No data that could identify individual participants or companies will be collected and/or published. Your participation is voluntary, and you will have the right to withdraw from the study up to the point at which it has been published. The outcomes of the survey will be analysed and incorporated in a report that will be made publicly available.
In the last question we ask the participants to nominate case studies and/or examples of projects adopting retrofit or undergoing retrofit planning for inclusion and consideration in the further stages of this study or any next project derived from the findings of this study. This question is optional and will not be disseminated in detail as part of this study. It would however offer opportunities to learn form live projects and evaluate current decision making processes to enable recommendations for a core data within the Existing Building Database, assisting with deployment of retrofit at scale. If you wish to discuss this in any more detail, you can contact us directly on the below details.
Project background:
The project aims to collate and assess the quality, usefulness, and validity of data currently held by a variety of building owners across Scotland. Through this process we hope to better understand what information is held, how and where it is stored, identifying any gaps in our knowledge on a wide range of archetypes, with an initial focus on domestic buildings. Through a series of engagement sessions, we hope to identify points of commonality across the range of estate managers data, to define an appropriate format for a combined register or database, which will allow for shared learning and support greater collaboration.
The overall ambition for a national existing buildings database is to create a single point of access and truth, drawn from variety of sources to build an accurate picture of the Scottish building estate. We will explore how automation can assist in scrubbing data from an array of sources to compiled this in a central location and distil complex live data into a legible and useable interface, which is up to date. If you have any questions about this project, please do not hesitate to contact Magdalena on m.blazusiak@rgu.ac.uk and Jonathan at j.r.scott@rgu.ac.uk
