Life-cycle design support:
  • Computer-enhanced engineering design
  • Building performance analysis
  • Enhancing sustainability and resilience
  • Geometric and parametric modelling
  • Visualization and simulations
  • Design and decision support systems
BIM and engineering ontologies:
  • Building information modelling

  • Semantic modelling in the AECO industry

  • Ontology modelling and reasoning

  • Spatial reasoning

  • Graph algorithms

  • Code compliance checking

Engineering optimisation and search:
  • Robust optimisation

  • Design space exploration

  • Stochastic search

  • Generative design

Advanced computing in engineering:
  • Strategic aspects - opportunities and risks

  • Computational design
  • Data-driven design and engineering
  • Machine learning

  • Computer vision

  • Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality

  • Visualization and simulation environments
  • Quantum computing
Monitoring and control algorithms in engineering:
  • Sensor data interpretation

  • Infrastructure monitoring and management

  • Building control systems

  • Active structures

Computer-supported construction management:
  • Collaboration informatics

  • Scheduling

  • Discrete-event simulations

  • Processes modelling