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The Korea Institute of Construction Technology is building a system that integrates administrative data to support building energy efficiency and carbon neutrality policies.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Oh Ye-jin = The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology announced on the 15th that it has established a 'datanet', a system linking administrative information such as commercial districts and business licenses for 7.3 million buildings nationwide.
The Construction Research Institute's research team is collaborating with 16 institutions across the country from April 2023 to December this year to integrate building-related data dispersed by each institution.
To this end, a total of 17 types of administrative data, including building energy consumption, weather, commercial districts/commercial areas, business licenses, spatial information, and information on apartment complexes, education, medical care, and cultural facilities, were discovered and classified, and 13 types of data have been linked to date.
Datanet provides building-level information, not personal information, and does not include sensitive information such as important national facilities.
This project was carried out as part of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's 'Building Energy Consumption Data Integrated Management Base Construction Project' and was published in the international academic journal 'Energy & Buildings'.
Park Seon-gyu, director of the Korea Construction Research Institute, said, "We will actively utilize our research results to improve data-based building energy efficiency and support carbon neutral policies."
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Datanet will be actively used to support carbon neutral policies.
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