Despite rising digitisation, the construction industry continues to be marked by redundancy, multi-plication, and, at the same time, a lack of transparency and disaggregation of data and information, resulting in inadequate project life cycle management in terms of time, cost, and quality. This paper presents the results of the development of a TRL 4-5 ICT application based on the integration of Building Information Modeling and blockchain technologies, with the goal of fostering digitisation pro-cesses in the supply chain in the direction of greater information flow transparency, knowledge-based organizations, and decision-making processes based on unambiguous ordered data. The initiative, which began as a broader industry research cooperation, now includes a university spin-off, compa-nies that operate as system integrators, and leaders in the customisation of BIM solutions for the built heritage value chain.
Integrated Technologies for Smart Buildings and PREdictive Maintenance
The preservation and the regeneration of the existing built heritage is still characterized, even in the context of an increasing digitization of the value and supply chain, by inefficient time and costs management, along the whole life cycle, as well as by discontinuity and lack of information on the one hand, by redundancy and duplication of data on the other. Accessibility, usability and feasibility in order to univocally implement information, also by real–time monitoring, are areas of growing interest to all actors of the building and construction value–chain, with particular reference built heritage knowl-edge phase, as well as for the stakeholders of complementary industries as ICT, for the development of integrated digital solutions for data acquisition, modeling and visualization.