IBTK - Immune Building Tool Kit
US Navy and DARPA turn to IFCs to help with "protective measures"
In recognition of the fact that the world is a more volatile and dangerous place the US Navy have developed tools to assess the vulnerability of existing and new building stock to a variety of threats. As key buildings across the US, both naval and non-naval, come up for refurbishment and rebuilding, protective measures are being introduced. To predict the spread of biological and chemical agents they are now using IFC based building models including fabric and HVAC systems. Appropriate "protective measures" are being added and their efficiency checked. Finally the updated building model is available for visualisation and costing. This is no "gleam-in-the-eye" project – the tools will go into use in late summer 2005.
A simplified and "Unrestricted" version of the software should be available for public download shortly, allowing sophisticated air quality analysis of buildings.
The project partners are the US Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Centre near Washington, DARPA, the Florida State Energy Commission and Jeffrey Wix Consulting.
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