The requirements for sustainable neighborhood developments have risen sharply, especially in the early planning phases
We notice this in almost all of our projects. There are more issues to clarify, more requirements to meet, more specialist disciplines to coordinate and ultimately more data to manage and correlate. We want to compare, evaluate and visualize, and also offer good interfaces to various software, for example for climatological reports. At the same time, there are more and more freely available data sets that we can use to our advantage.
The data and models we generate can also be reused in property planning in the same way as Building Information Modeling (BIM) data sets. The sustainability of the data is an important aspect for us. This also changes the planning deliverables, moving away from static paper tigers to dynamic models.
For the Magnum site in Osnabrück, the transformation of a former steelworks into a productive and mixed-use urban quarter, we are using our digital quarter model, which we developed in cooperation with urbanistic and List Eco. In parallel, we are developing and coordinating the outline planning, urban land-use planning, investment costs, a DGNB platinum quarter certification, the first construction phase in modular construction and the preparation of a material database. For us, the model is a three-dimensional planning tool as well as a data storage and communication instrument.
BIM-based property planning has been an important part of our work for many years, which we maintain and develop and in which we set quality standards. Completed in 2023, the Anna Seiler Haus, the new main building of Bern University Hospital, was the largest BIM project in Switzerland at the time.
Our aim is not only to combine planning standards efficiently, but also to anchor the requirements of sustainability with the possibilities of digital planning and construction and the need for economic efficiency as early as possible in our projects. In order to substantiate this scientifically, we are conducting research with the Chair of Design and Construction at Bochum University of Applied Sciences on the topic of digital information transfer for the classification of life cycle-based emissions from existing buildings and districts under municipal framework conditions and the identification of interactions.
