Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle

Fierro, Gabe; Prakash, Anand Krishnan; Mosiman, Cory; Pritoni, Marco; Raftery, Paul; Wetter, Michael; Culler, David E.

doi:10.1145/3408308.3427627

Title: Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle

Conference · Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3408308.3427627· OSTI ID:1755718

Fierro, Gabe; Prakash, Anand Krishnan;

; Pritoni, Marco; Raftery, Paul; Wetter, Michael; Culler, David E.

Many different digital representations of a building are produced over the course of its lifecycle. These representations contain the metadata required to support different stages of the building, from initial planning and design, to construction and commissioning, through operations, audits, retrofits and maintenance. However, because of differences in the semantics, structure and syntax of these representations, the metadata they contain is not interoperable. We present a novel method for leveraging these representations to create a unified, authoritative Brick metadata model for a building that can be continually maintained over the course of the building lifecycle. A simple synchronization protocol relays inferred Brick metadata from existing metadata sources such as gbXML, BuildingSync, Project Haystack and Modelica to a central integration server, which merges the metadata into a valid Brick model.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office

DOE Contract Number:: DE-AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1755718

Report Number(s):: NREL/CP-5500-78215; MainId:32126; UUID:a78d995f-e0ed-432a-8805-5ab841f5643a; MainAdminID:19038

Resource Relation:: Conference: Presented at BuildSys '20: 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 19-20 November 2020

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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