Start-up competition / Cebit 2017Zypries honors digital innovations
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Brigitte Zypries honored innovative ideas from the field of information and communication technology at the 'Digital Innovations Start-up Competition' at Cebit 2017. Computer&AUTOMATION shows the developments of the 20 start-ups in a picture gallery.
In order to plan ecologically and economically sustainable buildings, it is essential to carry out life cycle assessments and life cycle cost analyses. However, the complexity of these methods presents building planners with major challenges. The 'Caala' software makes it possible for the first time to calculate the ecological and economic performance of a building over its entire life cycle in real time during the early design phase. Geometric data, climate data and information on materials and building technology are linked in a model in order to calculate, for example, the gray energy, i.e. the energy that flows into the building materials, the construction and demolition of a building, the CO2 emissions and the investment and operating costs. Caala' requires only a tenth of the input and calculation time of comparable software. As a plug-in, the software can be used with any standard CAD software and thus integrates seamlessly into the existing workflows of engineers and architects.