Tools

This tool is for:

• Owners/Investors
• Facility Managers (FM)
• Professionals in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC)
• Energy Service Companies (ESCO)

The Digital Building Logbook (DBL) is an information repository for all relevant building data. It allows to store, organise, manage and trace information and data throughout the whole building’s lifecycle. It is a valuable resource for building owners and professional stakeholders to observe the evolution of the building based on trusted information and it facilitates decision making. The DBL bridges the gap between the great amount of data and information generated during the building’s life cycle and the lack of methodologies and tools to safely manage, organise, structure and share this data.

The building information, milestones and data can be archived in one, secure place where it will be accessible to authorised parties in the long-term. The CHRONICLE Digital Building Logbook offers intuitive features (such as a timeline of the building’s lifetime) that supports the involved stakeholder’s decision making on critical decisions regarding the building management. It will offer multiple ways of searching for and managing data. Through the communication established with the Common Data Environment of CHRONICLE, results and information from other CHRONICLE solutions will be automatically stored in the logbook.

The system uses blockchain technology to guarantee the integrity and traceability of your data. 

CHRONICLE’s Digital Twin Framework acts as the spine of all the project’s activities. It aims to accurately model and simulate the building’s processes based on real life data, monitoring buildings operations and environmental conditions, collected through an IoT network installed on site.

Combining powerful building thermal modelling techniques and machine learning algorithms, CHRONICLE’s DT Framework will accurately forecast the behaviour of the building’s conditions and systems. It will additionally mimic the behaviour of the building’s occupants to bridge the simulation gap and provide an accurate and representative building model, continuously calibrated based on current IoT data streams.

This tool is for:

• Owners/Investors
• Professionals in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC)

The Renovation Planner is designed to help building professionals and home owners plan renovations of buildings and dwellings. It will help to assess various renovation scenarios of the building, focused on optimizing its energy performance. Furthermore, the tool will present a complete financial assessment per renovation scenario proposed, while also evaluating other important factors like the tenants’ comfort and carbon emissions. Depending on the parameters that the user chooses to prioritize, the renovation planner will give a list with the best scenarios to proceed.

Each proposed scenario will contain and describe a renovation roadmap with concrete renovation measures to be applied. Continuing on from the selection of the preferred renovation scenario by the user, the Renovation Planner will also issue a building renovation passport (BRP) which will include and present all the details about future building inspections, maintenance and renovations in a pro-active manner based on the expected service life of the components, systems and materials to be used and applied during the renovations.

This tool is for:

• Owners/Investors
• Professionals in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC)

The Investment Appraiser is a tool that will be developed to forecast value and liabilities related to buildings’ performance as well as energy saving investments. Together with the other Chronicle applications, it will provide support to the stakeholders of the AEC Industry and its inhabitants.

The first part of the Investment Appraiser aims to support a property (building) valuation, performing a Life Cycle Cost (LCC). The application consists of a backend solution that performs LCC according to literature proven cost KPIs. This includes Dynamic Costs for instance, those associated with energy or water consumption and Static Costs as of those associated with Building Materials for renovation scenarios.

The second part of the Investment Appraiser oversees calculating the Carbon Bill for both the Base Line of each pilot and the generated renovation scenarios. According to the UC3.2 the Carbon Bill is an associated cost that measures the impact of emissions and sets an economic magnitude according to a standardized quantity.

This tool is for:

• Owners/Investors
• Facility Managers (FM)
• Residents (RES)
• Energy Service Companies (ESCO)

The Performance Evaluator is an application that captures not only the actual and post-occupancy data, but also the simulated outcomes from the Digital Twin. End-users will be able to monitor building operations (e.g. energy consumption, heating loads, indoor air temperature) as well as receive recommendations in terms of energy, cost and comfort.

In general, the Performance Evaluator serves as the data analysis system supporting the functionalities of both ChroVieOcc and ChroViewPlus. It plays a crucial role in effectively assessing building usage and advise the users on how to improve the overall energy performance.