3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
Gather detailed data on the existing non-residential building stock to identify the lowhanging
fruits for actions. The BIM concept should be implemented in the renovation of
existing buildings and the construction of new buildings, with an emphasis on integrating
the Internet of Things network throughout the non-residential building stock.
Efforts should be made to quantify the market value of buildings that have been
transformed into nodes that serve as Big Data center, micro power generators, and charging
stations for e-transport.
TIR state-of-the-art nodal building stock should be promoted across the EU and globally to
attract businesses to a Smart Luxembourg.
3 Introduce integral and sustainable concepts to the construction sector
3.1 Technical: Development and implementation of a national BIM strategy
Digitalization is growing fast in all steps of the value chain of a building, from design,
construction, operation, and refurbishment, to disaggregation, reuse of components and
recycling of materials. However, up to now the different tools of building information modeling
(BIM) used in the chain are often not connected. To unlock the efficiency potential of the
digitalization of the construction sector, it is recommended that Luxembourg establish a BIMtoolchain,
where all tools used in the chain access the same dataset of a building and add their
results to this dataset, which then can be directly used by other actors. This means that there is
only one dataset per building, including all data from the early beginning of planning until the
final end of disaggregation and recycling of materials. This will increase efficiency, not only in
construction and operation, but also in refurbishment, disaggregation and recycling of the
construction and its elements.
To establish the BIM-toolchain requires extensive preparatory work. Among other things, the
processes of the toolchain must be structured, interfaces defined, data protection rules
developed, and data ownership questions and legal aspects resolved. Therefore, research and
development, standardization and organizational work must be undertaken. The goal is to
make the use of the BIM-toolchain mandatory for all non-residential buildings and to extend
the process to all residential buildings.
3.2 Regulation: Development of a TIR building certificate
Luxembourg introduced the energy performance certificate (EPC) for residential buildings in
2008 and for non-residential buildings in 2011. The EPC must be presented when selling,
leasing, renovating, extending, or constructing buildings. In implementing the EPBD Directive
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