Standardised data is essential for circular economy
Swedish Wood implements data templates in a project that seeks to explore automated flow of construction object data during planning, design and construction.
Swedish Wood implements data templates in a project that seeks to explore automated flow of construction object data during planning, design and construction.
Genuit Group implements a centralised data management strategy with the help of Cobuilder as part of its digital transformation.
GrowingCircle project has an ambitious goal to set up a product catalogue and promote digitalisation among Portuguese construction companies and associations by using Cobuilder solutions.
Governments and NGOs provide our societies with a common ground for planning and action that is built on contemporary priorities such as preserving the environment, ensuring less costly, better built, and safer constructions.
In March this year, the European Confederation of Woodworking Industries, CEI-Bois, initiated a pilot project together with Cobuilder to help manufacturers digitise their data and make it available in a machine-readable and standardised format. We spoke with Hansueli Schmid, one of the members of the CEI-Bois workgroup that manages the TIMBIM project, to learn more about the development of the common data structures for the European timber industry.
In this article, we draw your attention to the environmental impact of construction products and their key environmental indicators.
The Product Circularity Data Sheet (PCDS) is a standardised digital fingerprint for sharing trusted data on the circularity characteristics of products across supply chains. The PCDS has been developed by the Ministry of Economy of Luxembourg and +ImpaKT, in collaboration with more than 50 international organizations. Today, the PCDS is being made available internationally to thousands of users through Cobuilder's solution Define.
The European Confederation of Woodworking Industries, CEI-Bois, entered recently into a strategic partnership with the Cobuilder. The new pilot project aims to help manufacturers digitise and make their data available in a machine-readable and standardised format.
The Swedish industry organisation of timber manufacturers and wholesalers, Swedish wood, has reached an important milestone in their digital journey. ‘In the past few years, we have done a lot of talking about digitalisation. Now it is time for action’, says Christer Green, Product Information Specialist at Swedish Wood.
What is ‘context’ in the world of construction product data? Do you use the same language to describe something delightful to your colleagues as you do to describe the same thing to your kids? [...]