As part of the Work Package (WP) 7 in which one of the demonstration study case concern a French healthcare district (La Pitié-Salpêtrière – Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)), the French consortium (AP-HP, Bouygues Construction, the “French Scientific and Technical Centre for Building” – CSTB – and the “French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission” – CEA -) organised a validation workshop regarding the STREAMER outcomes to a panel of around twelve important stakeholders with diversified professional backgrounds.
These stakeholders were invited based on their knowledge of the hospital sector, BIM (Building Information Modeling) or energy consumption simulation.
The objectives of this workshop were to see and validate if the STREAMER methodology was clear, understandable and relevant to be applied for real cases, to assess the usability of STREAMER software tools and to collect feedback from other organisations in the related sectors.
The workshop was held on November, 17th 2016 within the AP-HP premises. It was not an interactive workshop as the Dutch partners did: it was a more traditional one but with some moments dedicated to the audience questions.
During this meeting, the French partners presented:
- The organisation of the STREAMER project
- The organisation of the work packages and their main objectives
- The reason why AP-HP decided to join the project and to be one of the life demonstration cases
- The STREAMER methodology applied to the French study case
The participants’ feedbacks were collected through a questionnaire in order to know their feeling about the workshop and the organizational aspects.
There were numerous questions with the attendees and the exchanges with them were really positive and constructive. All of them highlighted the interest of this approach. However, they also pointed out that some points remain to be clarified and/or improved:
- For the EDC (Early Design Configurator), the possibility to have a better geometry of the envelope and to have structural components (lifts, staircases, etc.)
- For the PoR (Program of Requirements), to have a clarification of the different values behind the labels
- Regarding the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), the calculation methodology needs to be displayed
Nevertheless, they all are impatient to know the final results of STREAMER not only for the French case but for the other countries as well. A second workshop could be organised at the end of the project, depending on the progress realised.