This open access book describes a BIM-based toolkit that has been developed according to the
latest research activities on building information modelling and semantic interoperability to
optimize the building process. It highlights the impacts of using such new tools to fast
renovation activities starting from the decision-making and design stages to the construction
site management with the possibility to monitor occupants' and owners' feedback during the
realization process. In this process a framework has been developed and implemented to allow
stakeholders involved in a renovation project to efficiently compile maintain and add data
about (i) building elements (ii) building services systems (iii) tenants operators and
owners of the building and (iv) current and predicted performance of the building from the
various data sources available. The framework applies and specializes the existing practices in
the Semantic Web Linked Data and ontology domain to the management of renovation projects. It
has been designed to be open so that any system which implements the required functions and
uses the specified conventions will be able to achieve semantic interoperability with other
framework-compliant systems in the renovation domain. Finally this book represents the
validation process of the toolkit that has been held in three demo sites: a social housing
building in Italy and two private residential buildings in Poland and Finland. The outcome
shows that the toolkit facilitates the renovation process with relevant reductions of time
costs and energy consumption and that the inhabitants can take advantage of the increase in
building performances quality and comfort.
