Towards blockchains for architectural design consensus mechanisms for collaboration in BIM

Dounas, Theodoros, Lombardi, Davide and Jabi, Wassim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2594-9568 2019. Towards blockchains for architectural design consensus mechanisms for collaboration in BIM. Presented at: 37 eCAADe and XXIII SIGraDi Joint Conference, Porto, Portugal, 9-13 Dec 2019. Published in: Sousa, Jose Pedro, Henriques, Goncalo Castro and Xavier, Joao Pedro eds. Proceedings of 37 eCAADe and XXIII SIGraDi Joint Conference, “Architecture in the Age of the 4Th Industrial Revolution”. , vol.1 Porto, Portugal: pp. 267-274. 10.5151/proceedings-ecaadesigradi2019_296

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Abstract

We present a Blockchain collaboration mechanism on optimisation problems between distributed participants who work with building information modelling tools. The blockchain mechanism is capable of executing smart contracts, acting as a reward mechanism of independent designers attempting to collaborate or compete on optimising a design performance problem. Earlier work has described the potential integration through different levels of Computer Aided Design and Blockchain. We present an expanded version of that integration and we showcase how a team can collaboratively and competitively work, using BIM tools, through the blockchain. The original contribution of the paper is the use of the design optimisation performance as a consensus mechanism for block writing in blockchains. To accomplish that we introduce mechanisms for BIM to Blockchain Integration but also describe a special category of blockchains for architectural design and the built environment. The paper concludes with an analysis of the relationship between trust and values as encapsulated in the blockchain and how these could affect the design collaboration.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Architecture
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Blockchain, BIM, agent, collaboration, competition
Additional Information:	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License - Attribution 4.0 International
ISSN:	2318-6968
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	3 March 2021
Date of Acceptance:	4 April 2019
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2022 10:19
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/139104

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