Selected Awards related to BIM
Winner of the International Award for Excellence for Volume 3 of The International Journal of the Constructed Environment. The Constructed Environment Knowledge Community “New Design Protocols for Industrial-scaled Modes of Production for Carbon Neutral Buildings.” The International Journal of the Constructed Environment is a peer-reviewed journal published by Common Ground Publishing, USA
Winner of the International Award for Excellence for Volume 3 of The International Journal of the Constructed Environment. The Constructed Environment Knowledge Community “New Design Protocols for Industrial-scaled Modes of Production for Carbon Neutral Buildings.” The International Journal of the Constructed Environment is a peer-reviewed journal published by Common Ground Publishing, USA
2018-2021
2017-
2018
Selected Research Projects:
Research Project: CRUNCH - Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices. Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus - Theme 1. Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments. PI-USA: FIU Prof. Thomas
Spiegelhalter, Research Project Title: CRUNCH - Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices. Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus - Theme 1. Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments. PI-USA: FIU Prof. Thomas
Spiegelhalter Research Project Title: CRUNCH - Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices. Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus - Theme 1. Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments. PI-USA: FIU Prof. Thomas Spiegelhalter
Research Project: RCN-SEES: Predictive Modeling Network for Sustain-able Human-Building Ecosystems (SHBE). National Science Foundation (NSF) Co-PI, XXXXXXXXX Research Project Title: CRUNCH - Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices. Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus - Theme 1. Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments. PI-USA: FIU Prof. Thomas Spiegelhalter, Research Project Title: CRUNCH - Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices. Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus - Theme 1. Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments. PI-USA: FIU Prof. Thomas Spiegelhalter Research Project Title: CRUNCH - Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices. Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus - Theme 1. Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments. PI-USA: FIU Prof. Thomas Spiegelhalter
Research Project: Automated Fabrication and Assembly: Sekisui Heim, Tokyo, Japan. Thomas Spiegelhalter collaborated with Jun Furuse, and Masayuki Katano from the fully Automated Fabrication and Robot Assembly of Sekisui Heim in Tokyo-Kurohama, Japan, a worldwide leader in automated robot-driven house assembly. Sekisui produces around 13,000 energy-efficient, customized, and prefabricated homes per year, which range from one to three stories. Each day, Sekisui outputs approximately ten three-story houses per automation and robot assembly. The houses are then transported to the job site and assembled in only one day. In Japan, most prefabricated houses are manufactured by using automation, service robotics, and other advanced assistance technologies. The steady success of the main players in Japan’s prefabrication industry like Sekisui Heim, Daiwa House, and Toyota Production System (TPS) demonstrate decades of reliable products and services in the mass customized housing kit industry. Sekisui has one of the world’s most advanced 3-D-/4-D BIM allowing more than 90% of all generic or individual designs and parts-related information to be directly translated into production and assembly operations.
Spiegelhalter, Research Project Title: CRUNCH - Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices. Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus - Theme 1. Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments. PI-USA: FIU Prof. Thomas
Spiegelhalter Research Project Title: CRUNCH - Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices. Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus - Theme 1. Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments. PI-USA: FIU Prof. Thomas Spiegelhalter
Research Project: RCN-SEES: Predictive Modeling Network for Sustain-able Human-Building Ecosystems (SHBE). National Science Foundation (NSF) Co-PI, XXXXXXXXX Research Project Title: CRUNCH - Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices. Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus - Theme 1. Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments. PI-USA: FIU Prof. Thomas Spiegelhalter, Research Project Title: CRUNCH - Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices. Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus - Theme 1. Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments. PI-USA: FIU Prof. Thomas Spiegelhalter Research Project Title: CRUNCH - Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices. Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus - Theme 1. Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments. PI-USA: FIU Prof. Thomas Spiegelhalter
Research Project: Automated Fabrication and Assembly: Sekisui Heim, Tokyo, Japan. Thomas Spiegelhalter collaborated with Jun Furuse, and Masayuki Katano from the fully Automated Fabrication and Robot Assembly of Sekisui Heim in Tokyo-Kurohama, Japan, a worldwide leader in automated robot-driven house assembly. Sekisui produces around 13,000 energy-efficient, customized, and prefabricated homes per year, which range from one to three stories. Each day, Sekisui outputs approximately ten three-story houses per automation and robot assembly. The houses are then transported to the job site and assembled in only one day. In Japan, most prefabricated houses are manufactured by using automation, service robotics, and other advanced assistance technologies. The steady success of the main players in Japan’s prefabrication industry like Sekisui Heim, Daiwa House, and Toyota Production System (TPS) demonstrate decades of reliable products and services in the mass customized housing kit industry. Sekisui has one of the world’s most advanced 3-D-/4-D BIM allowing more than 90% of all generic or individual designs and parts-related information to be directly translated into production and assembly operations.
Selected Activities:
DYNAMO-RHYNAMO-BIM-User Group, bi-weekly cloud sessions with Designers, Architects, Engineers, Contractors, Programmers, and Students, both novices & experts, that share, investigate and build tools for the changing landscape of the Generative Design Industry: Dynamo Studio, Rhynamo, REVIT (Architecture/MEP/Structure), GBS, Formit, Fusion 360, 3D-Max, Solid Works, Robotics, Navis and Infraworks 360, Python, and Math Lab as well as any other form of design, fabrication, additive manufacturing and robotics related work flows. Intl. Autodesk (AUGI) Link:
Autodesk Generative Design:
DYNAMO-RHYNAMO-BIM-User Group, bi-weekly cloud sessions with Designers, Architects, Engineers, Contractors, Programmers, and Students, both novices & experts, that share, investigate and build tools for the changing landscape of the Generative Design Industry: Dynamo Studio, Rhynamo, REVIT (Architecture/MEP/Structure), GBS, Formit, Fusion 360, 3D-Max, Solid Works, Robotics, Navis and Infraworks 360, Python, and Math Lab as well as any other form of design, fabrication, additive manufacturing and robotics related work flows. Intl. Autodesk (AUGI) Link:
Autodesk Generative Design:
2015
2017-
2014
Book Information: Agent-based modeling (ABM) is an emerging design and automation modeling approach in Architecture and Engineering. In the past two decades, agent-based models have been increasingly adapted by scientists and practitioners, especially in infrastructure engineering, building designs, urban, geospatial studies, as an effective paradigm for framing the underlying problems of complex and dynamic processes. Agent-based modeling (ABM) is an emerging design and automation modeling approach in Architecture and Engineering. In the past two decades, agent-based models have been increasingly adapted by scientists and practitioners, especially in infrastructure engineering, building designs, urban, geospatial studies, as an effective paradigm for framing the underlying problems of complex and dynamic processes.
Post-Parametric Automation in Design and Construction, Thomas Spiegelhalter, Alfredo Andia, ARTECH House, UK, 2014, 230 pages, ISBN-10: 1608076938
Post-Parametric Automation in Design and Construction, Thomas Spiegelhalter, Alfredo Andia, ARTECH House, UK, 2014, 230 pages, ISBN-10: 1608076938
Selected Research Projects:
Selected Books:
Agent-Based Design Technology and Automation in the Built Environment, Thomas Spiegelhalter, Hwang Yi, Birkhaeuser Publisher, Berlin-New York, 150 pgs., ISBN XXXXXX
2013-2018
Book Information: Automation, a mixture of algorithms, robots, software, and avatars, is transforming all types of jobs and industries. This book responds to one critical question for the design and construction industry: "how are architects, engineers, and contractors using information technology to further automate their practices?" Addressing the use of new digital technologies, particularly parametric automation for design and construction in the building industry, this book looks at how technologically advanced architectural and engineering practices are semi-automating their design processes by using sophisticated algorithms to transform their workflows. The book also documents a set of firms that are further advancing automation by using pre-fabrication, modularization, and custom designs via robotics. Market Engineers; Architects; Building Designers; Construction Managers; Contractors; & Developers
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Peer Reviewed Research Papers:
Thomas Spiegelhalter, Design Agent based Real-Time-Scenario Planning and Benchmarking for Salutogenic
Environments, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, UIA Seoul, 2017
Thomas Spiegelhalter, Design Agent based Real-Time-Scenario Planning and Benchmarking for Salutogenic
Environments, ACSA-XXXX, XXXXXXXXXX, Honolulu, Hawaii 2017
Roughly millions of patients every year contract worldwide infections while undergoing surgery, according to the International Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For example, those infections cost billions of dollars in health-care services and millions of lives annually. Ironically, while hospitals are supposed to be designed to promote healing and well-being, they can be one of the most stressful of all built environments—they’re often cold, sterile but also infectious, featureless, crowded, and noisy. They same issues apply for other building types for health, well-being and even for education. In recent years, medical communities around the world have been incorporating a more salutogenic approach by reemphasizing the vital importance a healthy and active lifestyle has on one’s overall physical and psychological health. This move to a more preventative model is even seen in the World Health Organization’s new definition of health: “a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” As salutogenesis became firmly embraced by physicians and healthcare professionals, the concept began also to multiply into the professions of architecture, design and engineering. It is also more and more integrated in many green building rating institutions and rating system such as the USGBC-LEED, Green Globe, the German DNGB, and the Japanese CASBEE or in the UK BREAAM system.
Amazon link:
Peer Reviewed Research Papers:
Environments, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, UIA Seoul, 2017
Thomas Spiegelhalter, Design Agent based Real-Time-Scenario Planning and Benchmarking for Salutogenic
Environments, ACSA-XXXX, XXXXXXXXXX, Honolulu, Hawaii 2017
Roughly millions of patients every year contract worldwide infections while undergoing surgery, according to the International Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For example, those infections cost billions of dollars in health-care services and millions of lives annually. Ironically, while hospitals are supposed to be designed to promote healing and well-being, they can be one of the most stressful of all built environments—they’re often cold, sterile but also infectious, featureless, crowded, and noisy. They same issues apply for other building types for health, well-being and even for education. In recent years, medical communities around the world have been incorporating a more salutogenic approach by reemphasizing the vital importance a healthy and active lifestyle has on one’s overall physical and psychological health. This move to a more preventative model is even seen in the World Health Organization’s new definition of health: “a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” As salutogenesis became firmly embraced by physicians and healthcare professionals, the concept began also to multiply into the professions of architecture, design and engineering. It is also more and more integrated in many green building rating institutions and rating system such as the USGBC-LEED, Green Globe, the German DNGB, and the Japanese CASBEE or in the UK BREAAM system.
2013-2014