Building Simulation 2025 features a workshop to bring together experts in BIM, building performance simulation (particularly in terms of energy), and building engineering to identify and discuss obstacles, share experiences, and collaborate on innovative solutions.
It is part of the “openBIM for Energy Efficient Buildings” session which includes presentations and a panel discussion.
The workshop will examine current limitations in data exchange between BIM and BEM tools, address gaps in standards and workflows for integrated BIM-BEM processes.
Participants will discuss ways to enhance collaboration between design, engineering and energy management stakeholders.
Speakers include Dimitrios Rovas, who received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens; and received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has been research associate at the Laboratory for Numerical Analysis of the University of Paris VI, France (UPMC) and is currently a Lecturer in Building Simulation and Optimisation, at The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources at University College London.
His research interests are in the areas of building physics, smart buildings, design and simulation of building energy management systems, building simulation, building information modelling and development of middleware and data integration platforms for data access and analytical processing of sensor information.
He was the academic manager of the UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings.
Currently, he is the program leader for the MSc in Smart Buildings and Digital Engineering.
He will be joined by Veronika Richter from the Institute of Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Buildings at RWTH University in Aachen, Germany.
She will deliver a presentation on urban building energy modelling.
Her academic focus is analysis and modification of IFC building models for simulation purposes in building performance simulation.
Another speaker will be Martina Ferrando from Politecnico di Milano, one of the top public universities in Italy.
Ferrando holds a Master’s degree in building engineering and a PhD in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology from Politecnico di Milano.
During her studies, she completed a traineeship at the Technical University of Norway (NTNU) in Trondheim and she was an affiliate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for nine months developing modelling tools.