Energy consumption management using CAFM and BIM

Normally end users are passive users who do not participate in managing their energy consumption. International literature is demonstrating that involvement and awareness in facility management can help energy saving. For this reason, it is necessary that the subject becomes active and able to fit inside the energy management information. From this point of view, the Smart Energy Efficient Middleware for Public Spaces (SEEMPubS), a Seventh Framework Programme project, aims to reduce energy consumption in historic and modern public buildings through low economic impact construction works and an efficient ICT network for monitoring, detecting and managing consumption. At the end of this project, consumption data, which were collected within a number of the test rooms, will be available to end users through a Facility Management application (Archibus) that will allow users to see energy consumption data visible in real time, and to perform a different kind of medium and long term analysis and consequently to plan construction works, when necessary. At the same time, collected data, are used to study the methodology through interoperability among parametric software, both architectural (Revit Architecture), energetic (Daysim, Radiance and TRNSYS) and Facility Management (Archibus FM). Therefore, SEEMPubS will be able to transform “users” into “informed-user” involving them in the global energy process.