Estamos en la Aalto University, en Finlandia, conociendo de primera mano la Aalto BIM Iniciative que dirige desde hace dos años el profesor PhD Singh Vishal. La iniciativa surge desde el Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y Estructural,
” …The BIM initiative at Aalto University aims at combining established streams of research on BIM, design knowledge management, lean construction and service engineering and management to realize the promise of BIM in improving operational effectiveness and performance over the life-cycle of the built environment”.
Además de tener proyectos de investigación con doctorandos, principalmente en Facility Management y Lean Construction, hay un especial interés en abordar la gestión conjunta de ciclo de vida del edificio (BIM ecosystem), con todos los agentes. Tienen interesantes propuestas de trabajo con la Escuela de Computer Science con el profesor Kary Framling, con los que estuvimos viendo sus desarrollos con sensores y modelos destinados a Facility Management.
Por otro lado, existe un importante trabajo de integración en los cursos de Bachelors, con los conceptos básicos BIM en construcción y su desarrollo en Master, en el que coincidimos en muchos puntos para posibles colaboraciones.
Nos anima el interés que han mostrado por nuestros cursos en herramientas Tools Training que realizamos en formato taller en la Universidad Europea de Madrid a través de BIMLabUEM, para alumnos, profesores y incluso algunos abiertos a cualquier profesional. Estamos invitados a colaborar en los próximos talleres que organizan en Abril-Mayo en su escuela.
Pero sobre todo, estamos decididos en trabajar en futuros proyectos de investigación europeos, en los que se pueden integrar otras universidades, organizaciones y empresas para unificar estándares europeos, que según ambas universidades son necesarias para un verdadero desarrollo BIM de la construcción en Europa.
Journal Articles
Holmström, J, Singh, V and Främling. K 2014 BIM as Infrastructure in a Finnish HVAC Actor Network: Enabling Adoption, Reuse, and Recombination over a Building Life Cycle and between Projects. J. Manage. Eng. , 10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000305 , A4014006.
Singh, V 2014. BIM and systemic ICT innovation in AEC: perceived needs and actor’s degrees of freedom, Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management, Vol. 14 Iss: 3
Singh, V, Gu, N and Wang, X. 2011. A theoretical framework for BIM-based multi-disciplinary collaboration platform, Automation in Construction 20, 134-144., DOI information: 10.1016/j.autcon.2010.09.011
Singh, V and Gu, N. 2011. Towards an integrated generative design framework, Design Studies 3(2), 185-207. DOI information: 10.1016/j.destud.2011.06.001
London, K and Singh, V. Integrated construction supply chain design and delivery solutions, Architectural Engineering and Design Management (2012), iFirst, 1-21. DOI: 10.1080/17452007.2012.684451
Koskela, LJ and Ballard, G 2012, ‘Is production outside management?’ , Building Research & Information, 40 (6) , pp. 724-737.
Sacks, R, Koskela, LJ, Dave, BA and Owen, R 2010, ‘The interaction of lean and building information modeling in construction’ , Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 136 (9) , pp. 968-980.
Forgues, D, Koskela, LJ and Lejeune, A 2009, ‘Information technology as boundary object for transformational learning’ , Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 14 , pp. 48-58.
Dave, B and Koskela, LJ 2009, ‘Collaborative knowledge management – A construction case study’ , Automation in Construction, 18 (7) , 894 – 902.
Jan Holmström, Mikko Ketokivi, and Ari-Pekka Hameri (2009), “Bridging Practice and Theory: A Design Science Approach”, Decision Sciences, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 65-87
Kary Främling, Timo Ala-Risku, Mikko Kärkkäinen, Jan Holmström (2007), “Design Patterns for Managing Product Lifecycle Information”, Communications of the ACM, June 2007/Vol. 50, No. 6. pp. 75-79
Kari Tanskanen, Jan Holmström, Jan Elfving, and Ulla Talvitie (2009), “Vendor-managed-inventory (VMI) in construction”, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 58 No. 1, 2009, pp. 29-40, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, DOI 10.1108/17410400910921065
Ala-Risku, T., Collin, J., Holmström, J., and Vuorinen, J-P (2010), “Site inventory tracking in the project supply chain: Problem description and solution proposal in a very large telecom project”, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 252-260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13598541011040008
Holmström, J., Brax, S., and Ala-Risku, T. (2010), “Comparing provider-customer constellations of visibility-based service”, Journal of Service Management, Vol. 21 No. 5, pp. 675-69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09564231011079093
Främling, Kary, Holmström, Jan, Loukkola, Juha, Nyman, Jan, Kaustell, André. Sustainable PLM through Intelligent Products. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence , Volume 26, 2012. pp. 789-799. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2012.08.012.
Främling, Kary, Oliver, Ian, Kaustell, André, Nyman, Jan, Honkola, Jukka. Sharing Building Information with Smart-M3. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems , Volume 3, Numbers 3&4, 2011. pp. 347-357.
Meyer, Gerben, Främling, Kary, Holmström, Jan. Intelligent Products: A survey. Computers in Industry , Volume 60, Issue 3 April 2009. pp. 137-148.
Book Chapters
Gu, N, Singh, V and London, K (2014) BIM Ecosystem: The Coevolution of Products, Processes, and People, (in) Building Information Modeling: BIM in Current and Future Practice. Ed. Kensek, K and Noble, D, pp.197-211, URL: http://books.google.fi/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0gGCAwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA197&ots=9Cz6xBNx2k&sig=XZUhBRbaCEW4i2fwajSk-QZyh3o#v=onepage&q&f=false
London, K, Singh, V, Taylor, C, Gu, N and Branckovic, L (2010) Towards the development of a project decision support framework for adoption of building information modelling, (in) Handbook of Research on BIM and Construction Informatics: Concepts and Technologies. Ed Underwood, J. & Isikdag, U, 270-301. URL: http://www.igi-global.com/book/handbook-research-building-information-modeling/37234 (sample PDF)
Gu, N, Singh, V, Taylor, C, London, K, Ljiljana, B (2010) BIM adoption: expectations across disciplines, (in) Handbook of Research on Building Information Modelling and Construction Informatics: Concepts and Technologies. Ed Underwood, J. & Isikdag, U, 501-520. URL: http://www.igi-global.com/book/handbook-research-building-information-modeling/37234 (sample PDF)
Främling, Kary, Maharajan, Merina. Standardized Communication between Intelligent Products for the IoT (Internet of Things). In: Tsuzuki, Marcos de Sales Guerra, Silva, José Reinaldo (eds.) 11th IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS 13), São Paulo, Brazil, May 2013. pp. 157-162. DOI: 10.3182/20130522-3-BR-4036.00043
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