Ashvin

Assistants for Healthy, Safe, and Productive Virtual Construction Design, Operation & Maintenance using a Digital Twin
Project ID
Funding Organization:
Funding Programme:
Funding Instrument:
Research & Innovation Action
Start Date:
01/10/2020
Duration:
36 months
Total Budget:
5,609,858 EUR
ITI Budget:
393,750 EUR
Scientific Responsible:

ASHVIN aims at enabling the European construction industry to significantly improve its productivity, while reducing cost and ensuring absolutely safe work conditions. Towards this objective, ASHVIN will provide a European wide digital twin standard, an open source digital twin platform integrating IoT and image technologies, and a set of tools and demonstrated procedures to apply the platform and the standard proven to guarantee productivity, cost, and safety improvements.

The envisioned platform will provide a digital representation of the construction product at hand and will allow to collect real-time data before, during, and after production of the product to continuously monitor changes in the environment and within the production process. Based on the platform, ASHVIN will develop and demonstrate applications that use the digital twin data. These applications will allow it to fully leverage the potential of the IoT based digital twin platform to reach the expected impacts:

• Better scheduling forecast by 20%

• Better allocation of resources and optimization of equipment usage

• Reduced number of accidents

• Reduction of construction projects

The ASHVIN solutions will overcome worker protection and privacy issues that come with the tracking of construction activities, provide means to fuse video data and sensor data, integrate geo-monitoring data, provide multi-physics simulation methods for digital representing the behavior of a product (not only its shape). Finally, ASHVIN outcome will provide evidence based engineering methods for productivity and safety design, 4D simulation and visualization methods of construction processes, and enable to develop a lean planning process supported by real-time data.

All innovations will be demonstrated on 10 real-world construction projects across Europe. The ASHVIN consortium combines strong R&I players from 11 EU member states with strong expertise in construction and engineering management, digital twin technology, IoT, and data security / privacy.

Consortium

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN (TUB), Germany
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (CERTH), Greece
MAINFLUX LABS DOO BEOGRAD ZVEZDARA (MFL), Serbia
ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM (EUR), Netherlands
INGEO BV (NGEO), Netherlands
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA (UPC), Spain
AUSTRIAN STANDARDS INTERNATIONAL (ASI), Austria
INFRA PLAN KONZALTNIG JDOO ZA USLUGE (INFCON), Croatia
PLAN B BIM AB (PlanB), Sweden
AUSTRALO INTERINNOV MARKETING LAB SL (AUS), Spain
DIGITALTWIN TECHNOLOGY GMBH (DTT), Germany
PRZEDSIEBIORSTWO ROBOT ELEWACYJNYCHFASADA SP ZOO (FAS), Poland
NCC SVERIGE AB (NCC), Sweden
SBP GMBH (SBP), Germany

Contact

Dr. Stefanos Vrochidis
(Scientific Responsible)
Building A - Office 1.4

Information Technologies Institute
Centre of Research & Technology - Hellas
6th km Harilaou - Thermis, 57001, Thermi - Thessaloniki
Tel.: +30 2311 257754
Fax: +30 2310 474128
Email: stefanos@iti.gr

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