Architecture & Building Technology

The DataFusr client for architecture & building technology aims to assist architects and building engineers in their daily work. First and foremost, this client facilitates the connection between the discipline and interoperability platform Speckle. Next to that, some useful tools are developed to use in a computational design context. Most of these tools are available as Grasshopper components, and are part of the Haskoning AB ribbon.

Open Data Toolkit

The Open Data components provide access to freely available building data from several sources. These sources can be accessed from Grasshopper, which allows the user to get a good impression of the surroundings of a building plot. Currently available sources include 3DBAG, Kadaster, BGT and AHN3.

Grasshopper components

The components can be installed with the DataFusr Manager:

The components can be used by specifying a survey point component, that describes the location in the real world in RD-Coordinates. This component can in turn be connected to the individual Open Data components:

The result is the combination of the sources you have selected. In this example all four data sources are combined:

Python package

The Open Data Toolkit is also available as an installable python package. The repo is available here. Request access through anyone from the Team

An example usage of the python package to retrieve a digital surface map with AHN:

from haskoning_opendata.AHN import AHNInput, get_ahn, plot_speckle_mesh
ahn_input = AHNInput(
    x = 90654,                      # x-location in RD-coordinate system [m]
    y = 435703,                     # y-location in RD-coordinate system [m]
    r = 200,                        # radius [m]
    mesh_type = "DTM",              # Mesh type "DTM" or "DSM"
    level_of_simplification = 5     # Resolution
)
mesh = get_ahn(ahn_input=ahn_input)
plot_speckle_mesh(mesh=mesh)

The resulting plot looks like this:

Carbon Database

The Carbon Database is an interactive web application where any Haskoning employee can search for specific materials and their respective embodied carbon contents. This database is available here: https://carbon.haskoning.app

Briefbuilder

The DataFusr Briefbuilder connector facilitates data exchange between Briefbuilder and Speckle. This connector is available in the form of a python package with accompanying notebook. Please contact anyone from the Team if you'd like to use this connector.

The repository is available here

Roombook

The Architecture & Building Technology tab in the DataFusr Origin application includes a Roombook feature to keep track of requirements and specification of parameters on room level.

Team

The development team for Architecture & Building Technology consists of the following people:

Name	Role
Pieter Schreurs	Business Owner
Marijn Drillenburg	Development lead
Merijn de Leur	Key User
Anagha Yoganand	Product Owner Carbon Database