SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT: DENSITY AS A MAPPING PARAMETER FOR BUILDING MATERIAL DATABASES
Paper in proceeding, 2024
Integrating building performance analysis and life cycle assessment in design requires accurate material databases interfacing different analysis engines. However, mappings of databases developed for different purposes are missing. We evaluate whether beyond material name or ID, density can be used as a mapping parameter between environmental, energy, daylight, and structural databases in two cases in Switzerland and Sweden. In total, 16 out of 19 materials could be confidently mapped based on the information available. The variability of the mapping parameter, density, was15 % for structural materials, and up to 64 % for insulation materials. The lasting contribution of this work is a consistent methodology for mapping between material databases.
Author
Toivo Säwén
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology
Pierre Estève-Bourrel
University of Edinburgh
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)
Isac Mjörnell
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology
Alina Galimshina
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)
Guillaume Habert
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)
Alexander Hollberg
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computing in Construction
26841150 (eISSN)
Vol. 2024 276-2539789083451305 (ISBN)
European Conference on Computing in Construction, EC3 2024
Chania, Greece,
Chania, Greece,
Subject Categories
Other Engineering and Technologies
DOI
10.35490/EC3.2024.194