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Enhancement of the Skills to Utilise BIM technology to Improve Information Sharing in Building Projects

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Project Description:
This industry felloshowship had 4 WPs aiming to empower the Fellow with the knowledge about BIM technology, including:

  1. to educate the Fellow about the data exchange standards in construction industry and to advance her knowledge in interoperability and data domain by investigating the real use cases along with support from industry partner;
  2. to collaborate with industry partner to prototype an initial version of the solution interface;
  3. to train the fellow tailored to the recognized needs to know about the BIM tools and to familiarize the fellow with the development process of BIM models; and
  4. to evolve the initial prototype regarding the new findings and to evaluate the prototype by applying it to real use-cases.

Researchers: Zohreh Pourzolfaghar

Funding: Lero, SFI

Collaboration / Partners: ArcDox

Timeframe: 2018-2019

About the Researchers:

Digital Construction Cluster Lead

Dr Zohreh Pourzolfaghar

Digital Construction Cluster Lead

Dr Zohreh Pourzolfaghar

Zohreh Pourzolfaghar is Assistant Professor for the School of Business in Maynooth University. She is a members of Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. Zohreh formerly has been Research Fellow at Innovation Value Institute (IVI), Maynooth University’s digital transformation research centre. She is a senior research member of the Business Informatics Group. She is the theme lead in a project investigating the application of Enterprise Architecture in Smart Cities, funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). She has been Principle Investigator for an Industry Fellowship Programme, funded by SFI. Zohreh presented her work at international conferences and has published research in Journals and Conference Proceedings. Zohreh is also leading research within the Cost Action CA16222 (WISE-ACT), a European-wide network.  She has been thematic lead in a successful European Marie Curie PERFORM project. She is a member of the supervisory board of the EU project PERFORM, that focuses on Digital Retail. She has been awarded the SFI industry fellowship (2018) working with industry on topics related to Smart Cities and Building Information Management. She is the Co-PI for submitted H202 Techland proposal. Zohreh received her Ph.D. in Project Management in design process of building projects. Zohreh has years of experience working with project-oriented construction companies to improve organisatioanal productivity and their work processes.

EURDF

EU-H2020

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