Annex 1. Detailed description and characterisation of each action that addresses the gaps

• Author: Carbonar, Giulia; Sterling, Raymond; Spirinckx, Carolin; Vandevelde, Birgit; De Groote, Maarten; Dourlens-Quaranta, Sophie; Lodigiani, Alessandro; Volt, Jonathan; Borragán, Guillermo; Glicker, Jessica; Kondratenko, Irena; Toth, Zsolt; Rajagopalan, Neethi; De Regel, Sofie; Rapf, Oliver; Calderoni, Marco; Loureiro, Tatiana
• Pages: 107-125

STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A EUROPEAN UNION FRAMEWORK FOR DIGITAL BUILDING LOGBOOKS

FINAL REPORT

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ANNEX 1. DETAILED DESCRIPTION AND

CHARACTERISATION OF EACH ACTION THAT ADDRESSES

THE GAPS

Action A. Launch of publicly funded R&I projects to further explore the Digital Building Logbook concept

and its implementation

Action A.

Launch of publicly funded R&I projects to further explore the Digital

Building Logbook concept and its implementation

Action type

Supportive action

Description

Research and Innovation projects could be funded at European level, and

possibly at Member State level, in order to further explore the Digital Building

Logbook con cept and its implementation. Such projects would encompass for

instance the following aspects: economic and business models, Digital Building

Logbook’s features and functionalities, User eXperience, interoperability, data

governance, connection with other initiatives, etc. Such projects would also aim

to demonstrate the benefits of Digital Building Logbooks in terms of resource

efficiency, decarbonisation, safety and health.

If funded at EU level, such projects should be required to mutually c ooperate

and to provide joint recommendations to policy makers (as for instance the

BRIDGE initiative does for H2020 projects in the field of smart grids and energy

storage68). Connection with the DigiPLACE project69 should also be required.

DigiPLACE is a framework which allows the development of future digital

platforms as common ecosystems of digital services that will support innovation,

commerce, etc. The project is aiming at creating a digital platform tha t w ill

integrate technologies, applications and services of the digital construction

industry. Building logbooks could be potentially part of the work for EU wide data

spaces. 70

Finally, it would also be beneficial to list all the R&I projects f unded at Member

State level which contribute to exploring the Digital Building Logbook concept.

Gaps

addressed

Effort sharing

The European Commission and/or the national

administrations would select and fund R&I projects

through open calls.

Stakeholders from the research sector,

professional organisations in the construction an d

building sectors as w ell as other market players

(software developers, UX experts, financial and

insurance companies...) could participate in such

projects.

68 See https://www.h2020-bridge.eu/.

69 See https://www.digiplaceproject.eu/.

70 See https://www.ebc-construction.eu/2019/09/06/introducing-the-digiplace-project-a-digital-platform-for-

construction-in-europe/

Gap #1 Funding model

Gap #2 Benefits

Gap #3 Scope and purpose

Gap #4 User-friendliness

Gap #5 Updates

Gap #6 Interoperability

Gap #7 Data governance

Gap #8 Legal framework

Gap #9 Role of EU and MS

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Strengths

and

weaknesses

Main strength of this ac tion is that it would help

demonstrating the Digital Building Logbook

concept within different environments, identifying

business models and illustrating benefits (at

societal level or stakeholder-specific), thu s

facilitating the a cceptability of Digital Building

Logbook by the concerned stakeholders.

Synergies with other initiatives coul d also be

explored thanks to such actions. Cost of such

projects is kept under control. Added value

depends on how the projects are performing and

how results are disseminated an d exploited. In

addition, those results would be made avail able

after a few years since such R&I projects should

last some 3-4 years.

Links with

other

actions

Action B.

Action D.

Action E.

Action F.

Action H.

Action J.

Cost-benefit analysis

Market potential study of specific functionalities

Communication campaign & awareness raising activities

Make the Digital Building Logbook mandatory for public buildings

User eXperience study

Development of a standard for data collection, data management and

interoperability