SAT-project lays foundation for interoperability boost in the construction industry

The Smart Applications Technologies (SAT) studio represented the Research Studios Austria FG at Austria’s largest construction congress. Studio manager Florian Kleedorfer presented a joint project with the ÖBV in his lecture “Feature service – research that can change the market?”

For two days, the Austria Center was dominated by the construction industry at the ÖBV-Baukongress, the most important and largest congress for the construction industry in Austria. Managing Director Markus Tauber, Studio Manager Florian Kleedorfer and Fabian Suda represented Studio SAT of RSA FG.

Fabian Suda, Florian Kleedorfer und Markus Tauber am Baukongress.

Florian Kleedorfer presented a current project for the ÖBV in his lecture “Feature service – research that can change the market?”, together with René Holzer from FCP Fritsch, Chiari & Partner ZT GmbH.

On the one hand, digitalization is enabling companies to carry out their work more and more efficiently. On the other hand, however, they have so far mainly changed their internal company structures, as Kleedorfer said. Clients, planners and construction companies have standardized the data required for their processes internally, which means that everyone is now faced with incompatible company standards.

Whenever digital building models are to be transferred between companies, at least one of the parties involved has to make a considerable effort: the processes have to be adapted to the input data. This effort is often so high that the models are generated from scratch in the company’s own standard. The FFG research project “Feature Service” has set itself the goal of making the transferred data usable for further use. The prototype of a web-based translation platform for IFC models achieves this. For this purpose, data structures are defined as specifications and IFC models are transformed into this structure based on rules. The presentation presented possible use cases using examples and identified the added value that can be generated for clients, planners, construction companies and operators.