Tools
Enjoy the BIM4Ren open source tools
Today’s construction professionals, and in particular SMEs need suitable tools & flexible methods to facilitate their work & improve their production times, while ensuring environmental targets.
By considering the skills and capacities of the users and the different phases of the renovation process, BIM4Ren can adapt to different projects, business models and professional needs.
BIM4REN has developed a set of easy-to-use tools & services in the same common Open Environment for an agile, adaptable and fast renovation process that can be used in real, everyday projects.
Through a single entry point, the BIM4Ren One Stop Access Platform (OSAP), users will have access to innovative tools to guide them in the creation of a renovation project.
We have grouped our tools in 5 different categories applicable to diverse renovation workflows scenarios.
BIM4REN's one stop access platform
What you can do
- Collection of heterogenous information about existing buildings into digitalized data;
- Creating a BIM model and then organise, consolidate and secure the data;
- Analysing technical and economic potential, generation of renovation scenarios with data driven design.
Discover the BIM4REN Tools
BIM4Ren is a digital toolbox dedicated to the early phases of energy-efficient renovations.
The tools are used to quickly create a model of an existing building, out of documents or on-site visits and to create, run and compare different renovation scenarios
Renovation Manager is a web service, that helps defining and evaluating renovation scenarios at an early phase of a project, based on energy consumption, comfort and renovation budget.
Building Benchmark and Best practices tool. Support tool that shows an indicative primary energy consumption of a real building based on pre-simulated reference models.
The Utility Bill Reader automatically parses energy bills to fasten and ease the collection of relevant consumption information used in an energy audit.
Automatic creation of a geometric modelling of the environment around a selected building.
Automatic BIM generation from 2D Plans
Online tool for automatic BIM generation from existing architectural 2D plans thanks to Artificial Intelligence.
Semantic indexing of heterogeneous documents
MassDOC indexes existing textual documents to offer a search engine to quickly access annotated information in them.
HVAC degradation assessment through fault detection and diagnosis
The tool assesses the current state of the building systems by means of a fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) method.
Automatic BIMification of MEP networks
Enrichment of the BIM structure with technical systems and network thanks to automatic recognition from 2D plans.
Neuro-Questionnaire and system on renovation acceptation
NeuroQuestionnaire and intelligent decision support system on renovation acceptation
Automation in Data Gathering for overall assessment
A mobile APP to collect information on site about the current state of the façade, asses the level of severity of damages, and enrich the IFC model with the results of the evaluation.
Early PVT-installation technical and economic analysis
This service develops + integrates PV+T BIM objects + related models into the reference workflow for simulation, calculation and final HVAC set-up for the project. From early design (concept) to O&M.
Occupant behaviour simulation tool with BIM compatibility
Simulating the impact of occupant behaviour on energy consumption, for a specific household in a specific building defined by a BIM model.
Potential Analysis for Installation of HP for Renovation
Multiphysics evaluation models for design
fast, accurate, sub-hourly thermal simulation to model new and existing buildings of any size and complexity – ported to a cloud backend for HPC.
Building Sustainability Analysis for Environmental Certification
Building Sustainability Analysis for Environmental Certification, LCA and LCC.
Multicriteria analysis and decision helping tool
Multicriteria analysis and decision helping tool
Building Simple Assessment through Energy +
Improving LoI of selected objects
LODlifter is a tool allowing users to replace existing elements from the initial BIM by new ones selected from product catalogues.
Data synchronization between BIM Bots
Tool to co-ordinate the flow of data in a specific renovation workflow.
Object standardized open catalogues
The catalogue editor is a tool allowing users to produce electronic catalogues of building products compliant with the ISO 23386.
Validation and Feedback Tool
Checking whether actual energy performance is as designed and provide feedback to occupants and renovation designers.
BIM storage, checkers and converters
BIM storage, checkers and converters.
Generating gbXML file from IFC
Generating gbXML file from IFC.
