{"528511":{"#nid":"528511","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Digital Building Laboratory Aims for Big Data and Intelligent Infrastructure","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDennis Shelden, the co-founder of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gehrytech.com\/en\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGehry Technologies\u003C\/a\u003E and previous Associate Professor of the Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is now Director for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/digital-building-laboratory\u0022\u003EDigital Building Laboratory (DBL)\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Dennis Shelden is widely recognized as a thought leader in the development and application of digital technology in architectural design and construction,\u0022 said Dean Steve French.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022He is uniquely qualified to build upon the strong foundation that \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/people\/charles-eastman\u0022\u003EChuck Eastman\u003C\/a\u003E has created at Georgia Tech. His appointment will assure that Georgia Tech will continue to be a leader in the digital transformation of the Architecture\/Engineering\/Construction (AEC) industry.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEastman founded the DBL in 2009 as a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Architecture\u003C\/a\u003E research center designed to connect departments and colleges across Georgia Tech\u2019s campus. The DBL undertakes strategic industry studies, provides test beds for new technologies, promotes interdisciplinary education and collaborative research between university units and industries. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cChuck is considered the founder of the Building Information Modeling paradigm, so it\u2019s an honor to be working with him, an honor to take over this program, and certainly big shoes to fill,\u201d said Shelden, who has known Eastman for twenty years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForward-looking initiatives in the building profession today require the kind of data standards and digital foundations that Eastman, a professor in the School of Architecture, has spent his entire career building.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe success of BIM and the data standards Chuck has championed has created a reality where BIM data is proliferating exponentially, and can now be scaled up to the campus or city level. It\u2019s also increasingly an integral part of the delivered project and can now be connected to building sensors, embedded devices and become part of people\u2019s digital experience of their environments\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, think about how you use the map app on your phone to understand spatial data. If you have a destination, map data combined with personal location information is part of navigating the city. BIM can do the same thing for an entire block of buildings, and it can tell you about every floor of every building on that block.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShelden hopes to connect to Georgia Tech\u2019s facilities program and the Atlanta area developers and city officials, using BIM to model Atlanta, aspiring to aid firefighting and lifesaving efforts, even planning and development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo do that, Shelden wants to set DBL\u2019s sights on Georgia Tech\u2019s high performance computing community. \u201cBig data\u201d is increasingly a reality in the field of architecture and in AEC firms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUnder Professor Eastman\u2019s leadership, the DBL has become the foremost American institution in AEC data modeling and interoperability standards,\u201d Shelden said. The next big challenge for DBL will be coming up with advanced computing capabilities that can perform analytics and optimization of the growing data in building models.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs Geographic Information Systems (GIS) championed by the School of City and Regional Planning and Center for Geographic Information Systems (CGIS) continue to develop, they converge with BIM technologies. He hopes to develop strong collaborations with these College of Architecture units in addition to fostering long-standing ties with the School of Building Construction and the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShelden earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, a Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Ph.D. in Design and Computation from MIT. He is a licensed architect in the state of California, where he has worked with Gehry Partners and later Gehry Technologies since the late 1990s.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWidely recognized thought leader in the development and application of digital technology in architectural design and construction joins the College of Architecture.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Widely recognized thought leader in the development and application of digital technology in architectural design and construction joins the College of Architecture."}],"uid":"27803","created_gmt":"2016-04-22 19:32:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:28","author":"Ann Hoevel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"528521":{"id":"528521","type":"image","title":"Dennis Shelden, DBL Director","body":null,"created":"1461870000","gmt_created":"2016-04-28 19:00:00","changed":"1475895305","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:05","alt":"Dennis Shelden, DBL Director","file":{"fid":"206159","name":"dshelden7.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dshelden7_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dshelden7_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1583842,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dshelden7_0.jpg?itok=4MMD5wdc"}}},"media_ids":["528521"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnn W. Hoevel\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Architecture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ann.hoevel@coa.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eann.hoevel@coa.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ann.hoevel@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}