An Innovative Method for the Management of the Building Process

Through always more innovative IT applications, the construction industry is moving towards the digitalization of the building process, from digital design to automated manufacturing and smart buildings. Big data are now able to take us into an augmented reality—the virtual sibling of the real one—where buildings become cognitive and predictive, capable to actively interact with people. Towards this direction, the capability to store and organize building information at any level of its lifecycle is essential, especially when the multi-criteria evaluation of buildings’ behavior is required. Within this framework, the chapter introduces the review of the standards and best practices, mainly focusing on BIM as the driven method for the management of the entire building process. Hence, the methodology to develop a new assessment tool is presented, according to the investigation of the current platforms for the evaluation of buildings’ performances, and the pursued methods to define new additional shared parameters, specifically customized for the application to retrofit design solutions with timber-based construction systems.