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Technical University of Munich

Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Borrmann

Head of the institute

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ORCID: 0000-0003-2088-7254

André Borrmann studied civil engineering at the Bauhaus University Weimar and received his doctorate in the field of Construction informatics from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2007. Since 2011, he has been heading the Chair of Computational Modeling and Simulation at TUM, and has been spokesperson for the Leonhard Obermeyer Center of Digital Methods for the Built Environment since 2013. In addition, he was Interim Director of the TUM Georg Nemetschek Institute from 2021 to 2022.

Prof. Borrmann has coedited four books, is the coauthor of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and has received several international awards for his research work. His main research field is the technological advancement of Building Information Modeling (BIM) covering all its facets from geometry processing over data management to semantic reasoning.

Besides his research activities, Prof. Borrmann is also actively pushing forward BIM adoption in practice. He has coauthored the BIM roadmap of the German Ministry of Transport released in 2015, was intensively involved in the BIM4INFRA2020 project, and has been active in the national BIM competence center "BIM-Deutschland" since 2019. He is a member of the DIN Technical Council "Building Information Modeling" and has contributed extensively to the VDI guideline series 2552. In addition, he is intensively engaged in the activities of buildingSMART International, where he is primarily involved in projects extending the IFC standard for the infrastructure sector. From 2016 to 2021, he acted as the speaker of the German Association for Computing in Civil Engineering.

Research topics

  • Building Information Modeling and Processing
  • Automated Code Compliance Checking
  • Construction simulation und optimization
  • Construction site monitoring and automated progress detection
  • Pedestrian Dynamics
  • Collaborative Engineering
  • Information Modeling and Data Management
  • Artificial Intelligence in Construction

Awards

2007    Dissertation Award of Technical University of Munich
2008    Special Award in BMWi contest "Built on IT"
2008    Best Paper Award of the Int. Conf. on Intelligent Computing in Engineering
2009    Best Paper Award of the ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering 2009
2010    Best Paper Award of the European Conf. on Product and Process Modeling (Coauthor)
2011    Best Paper Award of the Int. Conf. on Intelligent Computing in Engineering (Coauthor)
2013    Best Paper Award of the Int. Conf. on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics (Coauthor)
2014    Best Paper Award of the Int. Conf. on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (Coauthor)
2014    Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing from Advanced Engineering Informatics, Elsevier
2016    Charles M. Eastman Top PhD Paper Award (Coauthor)
2018    Best Paper Award of the European Conference on Product and Process Modeling (Coauthor)
2019    Best Paper Award of the Int. Conf. on Intelligent Computing in Engineering (Coauthor)
2021    Runner-up Best Paper Award of the European Conf. on Computing in Construction (Coauthor)
2021    Thorpe Medal of the European Council of Computing in Construction (EC3)
2022    Smith Prize of the European Council of Computing in Construction (EC3)
2024    Best paper Award of the ISPRS TC I Mid-term Symposium (Coauthor)
2024    Best Paper Award of the Int. Conf. on Intelligent Computing in Engineering (Coauthor)
2024    Best Paper Award of the European Conf. on Computing in Construction (Coauthor)
2024    Konrad Zuse Medal

Scientific associations

Memberships in standardization bodies

Membership in editorial boards of international journals

Reviewer for international journals

Important publications

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