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A. Mahdavi, B. Rader:
"Integrated buildings and system design: Approaches, tools, and actors";
Talk: ECPPM 2016 eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Limassol, Cyprus; 2016-09-07 - 2016-09-09; in: "Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling", S.E. Christodoulou, R.J. Scherer (ed.); Balkema, (2016), ISBN: 9781138032804; 57 - 64.

Buildings involve both predominantly static features such as building construction, fabric, and
envelope, as well as dynamically operating environmental control systems. The optimal life-time
performance of buildings depends arguably on a well-coordinated design and configuration of these two
aspects. However, the communication and collaboration between primary building designers and building
service engineers in the design process is frequently sub-optimal. In the present contribution, we address
these issues in two ways. First, we report on the results of an inquiry into the mind-set of both primary
building designers and building systems specialists regarding building systems integration issues and their
mutual roles in the corresponding process. Second, we briefly describe a possible comprehensive workflow
process for the systemic generation and assessment of building systems configurations that are tightly
integrated with primary (spatial) building designs.

[no german abstract available] Buildings involve both predominantly static features such as building construction, fabric, and
envelope, as well as dynamically operating environmental control systems. The optimal life-time
performance of buildings depends arguably on a well-coordinated design and configuration of these two
aspects. However, the communication and collaboration between primary building designers and building
service engineers in the design process is frequently sub-optimal. In the present contribution, we address
these issues in two ways. First, we report on the results of an inquiry into the mind-set of both primary
building designers and building systems specialists regarding building systems integration issues and their
mutual roles in the corresponding process. Second, we briefly describe a possible comprehensive workflow
process for the systemic generation and assessment of building systems configurations that are tightly
integrated with primary (spatial) building designs.

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_251061.pdf