Semantic Buildings

The Semantic Buildings Project brings together experts from various disciplines to align open metadata standards and establish a common digital language for the built environment. This shared language enables smarter decisions, better automation, and more efficient operations across the building lifecycle.

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Our mission is to explore and test the integration of various open-source semantic models, including Project Haystack, Brick Schema, ASHRAE 223P, REC, AAS, BIM, SAREF, BOT, and others, with the goal of generating richer, more actionable knowledge to improve building design, operation, and analytics. By combining these complementary models, we aim to bridge existing gaps and extract the specific knowledge that is often scattered across them. Currently, this knowledge is typically obtained through ad hoc methods and workarounds. Our effort is focused on enabling more adaptive and data-driven building applications that support a wide range of use cases from automation and energy optimization to maintenance and occupant comfort.

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By harmonizing these metadata efforts we reduce duplication, eliminate ad hoc workarounds, and unlock new capabilities in automation, maintenance, energy optimization, and occupant comfort.

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This is not just a technical exercise,  it's a step toward future-ready buildings that understand themselves and can respond intelligently to the needs of their occupants and operators