Brick is an open-source effort to standardize semantic descriptions of the physical, logical and virtual assets in buildings and the relationships between them. Brick consists of an extensible dictionary of terms and concepts in and around buildings, a set of relationships for linking and composing concepts together, and a flexible data model permitting seamless integration of Brick with existing tools and databases. Through the use of powerful Semantic Web technology, Brick can describe the broad set of idiosyncratic and custom features, assets and subsystems found across the building stock in a consistent matter. Adopting Brick as the canonical description of a building enables the following: 1) Brick lowers the cost of deploying analytics, energy efficiency measures and intelligent controls across buildings, 2) Brick presents an integrated, cross-vendor representation of the multitude of subsystems in modern buildings: HVAC, lighting, fire, security and so on, 3) Brick simplifies the development of smart analytics and control applications, and 4) Brick reduces the reliance upon the non-standard, unstructured labels endemic to building management systems.

Prefix

brick

Keywords

architecture building design building informatics building information modeling civil engineering digital planning and construction energy engineering engineering fid baudigital industrial engineering nfdi4energy nfdi4ing power engineering systems engineering

Links

Homepage Repository

Publications

2020 Interactive Metadata Integration with Brick

2020 Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle

2019 Beyond a House of Sticks

2018 Mortar

2018 Scrabble

2018 Plaster

2018 Design and Analysis of a Query Processor for Brick

2018 HodDB

2016 Brick

2018 Brick : Metadata schema for portable smart building applications

2018 A large-scale evaluation of automated metadata inference approaches on sensors from air handling units

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

Ablutions_Room   Resolve

Example CURIE

brick:Ablutions_Room

Contact

Missing Contact

A summary of the relations in the Semantic Farm schema can be found here.

In Collection

NFDI4Energy Resources NFDI4Ing Resources

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 2 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier Ablutions_Room is used to demonstrate the providers available for Brick Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.