The first roundtable within the digiLARCH network in the year 2026 focuses on how BIM-based model for open spaces/landscape areas can support life cycle assessment (LCA) and cost-effectiveness comparisons for climate adaptation measures, especially in rainwater and stormwater management, and enable better decisions early in the project.

The presentation will be given by the Hochschule Osnabrück team (Ilona Brückner, Tammo Jochens and Mascha Viktoria Winter) from Germany. https://www.hs-osnabrueck.de/rain2bim 

In addition, we’ll also open the floor for related activities and approaches from other countries, e.g. for Joachim Kräftner to present preliminary results from the Austrian INRES2 project. https://gruenstattgrau.at/projekt/inres2/

To make the topic tangible, we also include a short look at a software application that demonstrates how these methods can be implemented in practice - presented by Vilma Pylkkö from Symetri.

🗓   29th of January 2026
🕒  Start time: 3 p.m. (CET)
⏱   Duration: 90 minutes
💻  Takes place via Microsoft Teams

Overview

• Project presentation Rain2BIM (Hochschule Osnabrück)
• Preliminary results from the INRES2 project (Joachim Kräftner)
• Software demonstration: practical implementation (Yilma Pylkkö)

All interested professionals and researchers working with BIM and digital tools in landscape architecture are warmly invited to join and contribute!

Kind regards,

Joachim, Bente, Ralf, Paula, Daniel, Fritz, Vilma

from the digiLARCH project team 

landschaft ID GmbH (Germany)
SYMETRI OY (Finland)
Verein zur Förderung der Grünen Baukultur (Austria)

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