Details
 

Researcher:	Stephen Ledbetter Alan Keiller
Funded:	DETR/EPSRC Link programme/industry
Value to CWCT:
Lead partner:	Leeds University
Status:	Completed 2004

Introduction:

CIMclad is a collaborative LINK project involving Loughborough University, Leeds University and ten industrial collaborators.  The aim is to explore the potential for using emerging IT tools and modelling paradigms to increase the standardisation of procedures and the efficiency of business processes within the building cladding sector.  The initial two-year research programme is specifically focused on Rainscreen cladding.  In the longer term, CIMclad is intended to lead to the computer-integrated design and manufacture of cladding systems.
 

Objectives:

CIMCLAD will investigate the feasibility of improving the efficiency and competitiveness of the cladding sector through the development of a standardisation framework for computer-integrated design and manufacture of cladding systems. The design, manufacture and installation of ‘layered cladding walls’ (rainscreen cladding) will form the main focus of the work.