Day 1 - Research > Call for papers

An effective fight against climate change and the global deterioration of natural environments and living conditions requires new methods and mastery of highly complex tools. Today, our design, construction, and production processes—through BIM and digitalization—encounter a unique opportunity for transformation and new usability.

First, artificial intelligence and algorithms offer unprecedented prospects within this constrained transformation. Second, since Alan Turing and the cyberneticians, scientists have understood that living systems are also materially structured by information, and that this information is governed by mathematical laws. Moreover, life accumulates information within ecosystems, phylogenetic lineages, individual organisms, and genetic structures. This information forms a “natural noosphere.” This immaterial entity is virtuously guided by chance encounters and structured by the action of natural algorithms.

Living systems thus represent a resource to be protected, a model for managing complex phenomena, and a source of inspiration for the capture, processing, storage, and production of information.

The potential for BIM and digital technologies to evolve within the construction industry can now be seen in the context of a deeper understanding of the phenomena related to the information that shapes living systems and their evolutionary processes.

By placing information processing at the heart of project development, drawing inspiration from natural organizations, and fully embracing algorithms and AI, it becomes possible to elevate BIM to a higher level of complexity. In line with this data- and life-inspired approach, the digital twin also seeks to mirror the living world by developing a dynamic dimension in information management.

Furthermore, renewed forms of biomimicry—driven by a deep acknowledgment of complexity, whether natural or artificial—shed new light on BIM practices. This presents an opportunity to prepare for new uses of this approach and to create new Biodigital cultures.

It is from this transdisciplinary perspective, at the intersection of biology and digital technology, that EDUBIM proposes to approach BIM for its 2025 edition.

This edition of EduBIM includes (but is not limited to) the following themes:

• BIM and biomimicry

• BIM and computational practices: generative design, optimization, artificial intelligence, data-driven design, BIM and data science, BIM and big data

• BIM and collaboration, BIM and interoperability, data dictionaries, open source

• BIM and sustainability: energy efficiency, carbon footprint, Life Cycle Assessment, circular economy

• BIM, urban and territorial scales, CIM and GIS

• BIM and operations/maintenance, digital twin, IoT, and HBIM

• BIM, manufacturing and construction, on-site BIM, robotics, automation, and prefabrication

• BIM and new organizational structures, BIM maturity, new skills and roles, new project practices

• BIM and culture, computational creativity, historical and political dimensions

• BIM and business development, from the perspective of occupational sociology

• BIM and the teaching of new tools and their usage contexts

• BIM and innovation conditions and processes, the evolution of business models

• BIM and lean management, business processes, modeling of new business processes, BIM processes and technologies

• BIM and skills development, project management incorporating a BIM approach

• BIM and cognitive modeling

The EduBIM 2024 Research Day is a place for exchange and sharing between both scientific and professional communities. It is open to the diversity of research and viewpoints that address the challenges of digital transformation.