Improved building design procedure based on trustable structural knowledge

Friedman, Noemi (author), Kurent, Blaž (author), Popovics, Bence (author), Landi, Filippo (author), Chiachio Ruano, Juan (author), Croce, Pietro (author), Brank, Boštjan (author)

This paper presents how procedures of building design can be improved by integrating trustable structural knowledge. Such a procedure allows closing the gap between as-designed building behavior and as-built building behavior and is particularly crucial for innovative structures where extensive engineering expertise may be lacking. By leveraging validated engineering principles and data-driven insights, the proposed methodology ensures more reliable and predictable design outcomes. The framework emphasizes the importance of transparent building behavior, allowing continuous monitoring and iterative refinement for designers. It also highlights how evidence-based decision-making may enhance structural performance. The capacities of this approach are demonstrated through a real-world application, specifically by improving the vibration serviceability of tall structures made of cross laminated timber (CLT) panels. This is achieved by utilizing modal property measurements from two case study buildings and applying a generalized updating procedure to refine the scaling factor for the elastic moduli, adjusting the manufacturer’s assessed values of the CLT panels.

• Language: English
• Keywords: structural design, measurements, trustable knowledge
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: 6 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 1546, issue 1, art. 012094
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-177771
• UDC: 624.07
• ISSN on article: 1755-1315
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1546/1/012094
• COBISS.SI-ID: 263346947
• Publication date in RUL: 07.01.2026

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Central Europe towards Sustainable Building : 16/09/2025 - 19/09/2025, Prague, Czechia
• Place of publishing: Bristol
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Year: 2025
• COBISS.SI-ID: 262618883
• Collection title: IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science (Online)
• Collection numbering: vol. 1546
• Collection ISSN: 1755-1315

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: projektiranje konstrukcij, meritve, zanesljivo znanje

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Project number: 101092052
• Name: BUILDing knowledge book in the blockCHAIN distributed ledger. Trustworthy building life-cycle knowledge graph for sustainability and energy efficiency
• Acronym: BUILDCHAIN