The library building is a large and complex object with special usage and requirements. In order to be able to analyse and optimise the building with a wide variety of simulations, a suitable digital model is required.
This model must hold all the information that is necessary for the various analyses in areas such as building physics, acoustics or statics. Such information is, for example, the geometry of the building, component constructions and material properties, but also the building equipment, control and regulation or the usage of the building.
SIMULTAN, an open data model IT ecosystem developed at TU Wien, is suitable for this purpose.
Almost any data can be stored and structured in this flexible data-model, which everyone can use, extend and add results for evaluation or other simulations.
SIMULTANs main core feature is an flexibel open data model which can store in a FAIR way all informations needed for the build environment.
Everything others need for their work (also in future) shall be stored in the common single source of truth. No double input is needed.
In 2022 the software needed to use data stored in the SIMULTAN Datamodel will be release as OPEN SOURCE on GIThub.
Currently all unit tests and code documentation is finalized.
Data stored in the SIMULTAN data model can be exportet and importet to Excel(very easy) or can be acces with C# libraries or Python libraries.
Users can enter and visualise data with the SIMULTAN editors. The editors also include a possibility to add Plug-ins.
The editors are needed to develop the data model along the use cases.
The goal of this project is to provide students, researchers and interested parties such a model for the library building.
An example how the model can be used for simulations is shown here for a shading analysis.
Picture 1: Screenshot of the SIMULTAN software where the geometry and a detail of the component constructions is shown
Access to the Simulation Model
The simulation model ist stored in TUgitLab. TUgitLAB is provided by TU.it. TUgitLAB is an application for managing repositories based on Git. You can get access to the Simulation Model on request.
Please contact Maximilian Bühler
Access to the SIMULTAN Software
The SIMULTAN software is currently developed and managed by E207-02.
The software needed to use the SIMULTAN data model will be released in 2022 as OPEN SOURCE on GitHub.
For research and teaching the editors are available as stable Releases.
Please contact Thomas Bednar
Plugins:
Electricity Net Simulation E307-01 Wolfgang Gawlik
District Cooling Net Simulation E302 Karl Ponweiser
Shading Calculation (Python) E207-02 Maximilian Bühler
MultiZone Building Simulation (Excel-VBA) E207-02 Thomas Bednar
MultiZone Building Simulation (Python) Maximilian Bühler
ÖNORM B 8110-2:2020 Simplified Assesment of Moisture Performance of Wood Frame Constructions Thomas Bednar
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HISTORY of SIMULTAN
The development of SIMULTAN at TU Wien started with
https://urbem.tuwien.ac.at/home/
2017: 2020: 
Visualisations of the Data-Model of the library
Picture 2: Visualisation of the geometry in the Simulation-Model
Picture 3 and 4: Visualisation of the geometry in the Simulation-Model and other TU buildings
Picture 5, 6 and 7: Visualisation of different parameters for the library geometry: opaque surfaces, component constructions and mesh.