A new joint CEN-CENELEC Workshop is being launched which builds on the aims of the EU Research project 'PROBONO'. The project’s vision is to establish an integrator-centric approach for realizing innovative energy efficient buildings in connected sustainable green neighbourhoods.
Human-centred social values in the built environment tend to involve highly subjective terms, such as curiosity, comfort, sense of belonging etc. It is important to realize that such social values are critical to the proper functioning of buildings.
On an abstract level, one can make the following observation: architects design and arrange products in buildings, which are experienced by occupants (via sight, hearing, touch, movement, affordances etc.), with the intention of creating a particular social value (among other design goals). By documenting design intentions at this more abstract level, we make the intended social value readily visible to a wider range of stakeholders and enable new kinds of analyses.
In this CWA, the focus is on accurately and effectively capturing an architect’s “design arguments”, i.e. the design decisions about how certain products are arranged (e.g. directing a spotlight above a stairwell), and the subsequent “logic” of occupant experience (e.g. seeing the light beam on the wall) and the intended social value (e.g. this will create curiosity). These design arguments are then “injected” into the Building Information Modelling (BIM) model natively, i.e. in a way that is fully compliant with existing BIM standards such as IFC.
The kick-off meeting is planned to take place remotely on 28 April 2025 from 13.00 to 16.00 (CEST). This meeting will take place online via Microsoft Teams.
All interested parties are invited to submit comments on the draft Project Plan using the commenting form below, to the Workshop Secretary, Dr Madlen Schmudde (DIN), (Madlen.Schmudde@din.de) by 21 April 2025.
For additional details, please refer to the draft Project Plan, which contains all relevant technical information.
Formal registration for the workshop will take place following the Kick-off Meeting.
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