digital tools

On 29th November, Sanjay Somanath successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Instruments of Inquiry for Urban Social Sustainability: Activity-Based Urban Accessibility Modelling in Neighbourhood Planning,”. In his thesis, Sanjay explored questions such as, “How can urban practitioners incorporate residents’ perspectives into neighbourhood planning?

On 15th November, Sanjay Somanath was interviewed by Catharina Björk about his research and PhD life. Sanjay is set to defend his PhD thesis, titled “Instruments of Inquiry for Urban Social Sustainability: Activity-Based Urban Accessibility Modelling in Neighbourhood Planning,” on 29th November.

Denver, Colorado, May 22nd. Xinyue Wang presented at the IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2024 Conference, held May 20th through Thursday, May 23rd, 2024, in Denver, Colorado, United States. The conference’s theme is “Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation”.

Gothenburg, March 15th. On March 15th, an Augmented Reality (AR) tool workshop was held after the final critique of ACE405—Design and Performance Optimization in Architecture. This workshop is based on the collaboration between this course and DTCC to explore AR tools with building performance optimization.

Gothenburg, November 27th. As a prequal to the DTCC conference, Alex Gonzales Caceres organised a workshop about visualisation, auralisation, and the DTCC platform at the Visual Areana at Lindholmen Science Park.

On December 1st, Toivo Säwén conducted his Licentiate seminar defending his thesis entitled “Early Stage Architectural Design Practice Perspectives on Life Cycle Building Performance Assessment”. We were joined by Prof.

Sanjay Somanath, PhD student at the Sustainable Buildings Research group participated in the parallel session on public participation in urban planning at the ENHANCE alliance summit hosted by Gdansk University of Technology.

The Built-LCA Hackathon aims to explore the effective use of databases and develop a flexible communication system between Grasshopper and data sources of different resolutions. The primary challenge is to analyse the DeCarbonAIte Data workflow, which involves computing, storing, and presenting results, while incorporating databases into the process.

The Twinable project by the Chalmers University of Technology uses mixed reality to project urban data onto a 3D model of Gothenburg created by Universeum Vislab, providing interactive visualisations that offer a new perspective on the city.

On Friday 17th March, the Bombyx team has attended the Rhino user meeting organized by McNeel in collaboration with Herzog de Meuron – Bombyx is a design-integrated tool for real-time Life cycle assessment (LCA), which was created to facilitate the use of LCA during the early design stage of a building.