In Brussels for the Final Review of ACCEPTEPITESSERA was in Brussels last month with the rest of the ACCEPT consortium for the final review of the project. It was a very important presentation for the project since it would demonstrate the full potential of the system to the reviewers for the first time. For the…

EPITESSERA at Digital Construction WeekDigital Construction Week takes place each year in London and hosts the latest developments in construction related information technologies.It’s the only event series in the UK dedicated to digital construction, engineering, design, manufacturing, and operation.This year, DCW was held at EXCEL in the East London, on the 18th and 19th of…

EPITESSERA hosts ACCEPT plenaryThe consortium met last month in Nicosia, Cyprus for the last plenary of the project. As we are approaching the end of the project, the focus has been on testing the developed prototypes and prepare for the final review in Brussels. Apart from the interesting discussions in the meeting room, the team…

Improving Energy Efficiency in Buildings for Ensuring Sustainability: The ACCEPT caseImproving Energy Efficiency in Buildings for Ensuring Sustainability:  Energy use in buildings all over the world is growing at a steady rate. However, due to the growing scarcity of energy sources, the world is now talking about the possible ways to reduce the consumption of…

ACCEPTed Workflow MonitoringOne of the most time consuming and tedious tasks in the Construction field is keeping track of the daily executed work. Workflow monitoring is essential in order ensure that the work executed is within the anticipated milestones set in the project schedule. This task usually requires effort at three different levels. Firstly, the…

Pilots under wayEPITESSERA has started the implementation of the Pilots for ACCEPT research project. The Pilots are currently running on two of EPITESSERA projects. One is a three storey residential building in Aglantzia, Nicosia and the other one is the new Newham Building at the English School in Nicosia. The Pilots are part of the…

Rosenheim plenary meetingACCEPT team met last month in Rosenheim, Germany. Fraunhofer-Institut fur Bauphysik IBP) hosted the meeting and we had the chance to visit the testing facilities of IBP in Holzkirchen. There we could see some of the institute’s very interesting programs, ranging from climate conditions testing in an Airbus plane to bubble gum stack…

ACCEPT goes on-siteWhile the project development is well under way and we are already in the final year of the project, the prototypes have already started field testing in various locations. In Brussels and Madrid, the CoOpApp, which is essentially the Smartglass assistant component of ACCEPT, has already been tested on-site, in the context of…

Construction site of the futureWhat would a typical day at the construction site look like in the future? Imagine an unmanned drone flying over the site while it takes a range of photographs in order to calculate in real time the building progress, identify potential hazards on-site, or quality issues and help acquire other useful…

ACCEPT workshop in Malaga-SpainBelow is an abstract from the official project Blog on the forthcoming Digital Construction workshop in Malaga:” On Thursday October the 13th, the ACCEPT project will hold its first workshop event: Construction 4.0 New Digital Sector, taking place within Spain’s start-up and innovation centre, in the nicknamed ‘Malaga Valley’ at the university…

How can Technology improve construction processes?Construction industry has always been reluctant to accept new information technologies in order to change the way every stakeholder shares information. For example, in the old days, people used a “Green Book” or triplicate forms and tried to fax a dirty copy back to their main office. Or, in other…

ACCEPT project progress review in BrusselsACCEPT consortium has met once again in Brussels, during the last week of June for the first European Commission review. Everyone’s expectations were high, since it was the first time that the early prototypes of the system components were going to be tested in real-life conditions Our Belgian partner, Enterprise…

The rain in Spain….ACCEPT research project is already on its fourteenth month and over that period a lot of progress has been made. The three main components of the system, namely the CoOpApp, SiMaApp and the Dashboard are now on the development stage of the first prototypes and the technical teams are working hard towards…

Research and Innovation @ EPITESERAEPITESSERA Architects are involved as a User Partner in ACCEPT (Assistant for Quality Check during Construction Execution Processes) research project. The project addresses the call for EeB-Energy-efficient Buildings of Horizon 2020 and more precisely it targets EeB03: Development of new self-inspection techniques and quality check methodologies for efficient construction processes. The…

Limassol GardensWe have recently completed the design of this large scale project in Limassol, which consists of 6 apartment blocks (4 blocks with 5 floors and 2 blocks with 3-4 floors). The design and specifications of each apartment offer exceptional high quality standards of living in a beautiful and quiet residential area at the heart…