Open Source Construction

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Maximilian Vomhof from VYZN presenting the new project opensource.construction: a workshop about opportunities of an Open Data Environment for Material Data in Construction.

The construction industry is characterised by numerous small and medium-sized companies that operate locally, follow existing standards and have little to no budget for research and development … the situation is an exciting starting point for developing user-oriented tools across companies with the open source mindset.

These tools can give all companies in the construction and real estate industry a long overdue boost to comprehensive digitalisation and increased productivity. On the one hand, in order to survive successfully in an increasingly globalised market, but also to meet the ever-increasing requirements of legislation in the future, not least in the area of climate protection.

GitHub - opensource-construction/open-material-data: Open Material Data

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This is a topic that I’ve been following closely for the past few years, linked to startups and scandals - there is certainly a lot of potential in this project! Previously on this forum:

Spatial Data Package Viewer

At Cividi, we are developing a platform for evidence based spatial planning (something @oleg has posted here earlier) and would like to hear your thoughts on this. [Screenshot from 2020-09-24 21-37-02] Version 1.0 is a viewer for styled Spatial Data Packages displaying geometry, meta data and a legend, grouped into workspaces. See some examples at our platform for municipal data projects, Gemeindescan.ch. Spatial Data Packages are based on the Frictionless Data standards and are containers f…

Developed by the same team, a crowdsourcing initiative with Countdown2030 to track the disassembly of buildings, and the environmentally-damaging materials this involves:

Abriss Atlas

As I mentioned in the discussion, our association is well positioned to connect initiatives like these around #UrbanOpenData or so - with a focus on the cause and effect of urbanization, it could provide an important counterweight to the more (sustainable-)growth-oriented existing smart city fora.