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This website was developed by the students of two master modules called “Modeling Civil Engineered Systems” and “Whole Life Civil Systems Analysis” provided by the Chair of Civil And Building Systems from the TU Berlin, Germany. As part of the master module, the third assignment entitled “Jigsaw” had the purpose of teaching the students to think about different scales following the idea of system-inside-system. In this context, the students had to define an integration context for the products/systems developed during the first and the second assignment. Groups were defined for this specific assignment. The work done by the groups can be found by navigating to the website using the pages on the main menu.

Modeling Civil Engineered Systems: 

Group1 WS19/20 – multi-storey building Group2 WS19/20 – Culture park
Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Underground parking ramp
  2. Elevator
  3. Multi-storey building
  4. External building wall
Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Academic Library
  2. Opera House/Theater
  3. Roller coaster
Group3 WS19/20 – Infrastructure Group4 WS19/20 – Airport
Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Bridge
  2. Composite girder
  3. Single-family house
Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Airplane Hangar
  2. Airport Runway
  3. Tunnel

 

Group1 WS18/19 – Cycling Infrastructure Group2 WS18/19 – large-scale building pit next to an existing residential building
Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Bikes bridge
  2. Cycling infrastructure
  3. Tunnel
  4. Fast cycling route
Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Diaphragm walls
  2. Single-family home
  3. Floor slabs
  4. One floor of an apartment building
Group3 WS18/19 – Sport Park Group4 WS18/19 – South Harmon Institute of Technology S.H.I.T.
Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Stadium
  2. Race track
  3. Hand-sightseeing and building
  4. Multi-storey car park
  5. Tennis Center
Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Nightclub
  2. University campus
  3. Bus station
  4. Public dustbin with locking system

 

Group 17/18 – Residential School with Focus on Competitive and Therapeutic Riding

Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Hospitals
  2. Schools
  3. Riding Stables
  4. Bike Sharing stations

 

Group 1-WS 16/17 (Inner City Hospital)

Group 2-WS16/17 (Renewable Energy Park)

  1. Hospital
  2. Supermarket
  3. Green Roof Top
  4. Waste Water Treatment Plant

Alternatives developed:

  1. Road
  2. Tunnel
  3. Dam
  4. Wind Park
  5. Solar Plant

Alternatives developed:

Master Module Description

In this module, students will get an introduction into product modeling theory, which forms the basis of state-of-the-art Building Information Systems. The module will shed a light on ontologies and information models based from the viewpoint of semiotic theory. Related concepts such as level of detail, abstraction, and interpretation are introduced to provide insights in how to best computationally model engineered systems to support knowledge-intensive engineering work. Students will here gain the required skills to represent and describe all type of civil engineering objects ranging from buildings to infrastructure.

To ground the theoretical part of the module, students will also gain practical hands-on experiences modeling complex infrastructure and building systems using state of the art ontology modeling and information modeling software. Additionally, students will learn how to interface with existing domain specific modeling applications such as Autodesk Infra or Autodesk Revit. Additionally, rich practical case studies will be introduced from our past and ongoing research efforts in modeling engineered systems ranging from road and rail networks to hospitals.

Whole Life-Cycle Analysis

Group 17/18 (LCA)- Integrated Eco-friendly Energy Solutions for Bonaire Island

Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Sewer System
  2. Solar rooftop
  3.  

    wind turbine

  4. roof

Integrated System

 

Group 18/19 (LCA)

Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Dam
  2. Tunnel
  3. Drinking water supply
  4. House
  5. Parking house

Integrated System

 

Group 1 –  19/20 (LCA)

Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Heating System
  2. multi-storey car park
  3. Wind turbine

Integrated System

 

Group 2 –  19/20 (LCA)

Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Airport runway
  2. Airplane hangar
  3. footing plate

Integrated System

 

Group 3 –  19/20 (LCA)

Civil Engineered Systems:

  1. Dam
  2. Tunnel
  3. reverse osmosis plant
  4. offshore wind turbine

Integrated System