Building guidelines to provide as-designed solutions for energy-efficient envelopes

Combined with growing expectations for high performance, energy efficient buildings are now required to satisfy a large number of parameters. Building envelopes were always expected to be durable and provide a degree of environmental separation but now they must address issues like energy efficiency, daylighting, thermal comfort. The benefits of the available energy-efficient building components are often lost due to lack of knowledge or bad implementation during the construction process. This affects the final performance of the building. In addition, the construction sector is characterised by a segmented approach involving a variety of skills and expertise; each actor must ensure that its contribution fits into a quality framework defined collectively at the design level, but communication is not always effective. The INSITER project aim is to prevent performance gaps between the design and the realization of buildings. This goal will be accomplished by developing self-instruction and self-inspection procedures, supported by BIM-based software tools, Augmented Reality applications and measurement tools that shall be integrated in a software-based platform. The methodology, presented in the paper, is the bridge to bring research knowledge into practical implementation saving time and costs by making the construction efficient.