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The new European project 'BIMhealthy', coordinated by UCAM, analyzes the behavior of BIM (Building Information Modeling) housing to prevent cardiovascular and respiratory diseases

Insufficient natural light, indoor air pollution and excessive outside noise are a breeding ground for infectious and mental diseases that can cause irritability, anxiety, depression and sleep disturbances.

Likewise, there are many studies that affirm that there is a positive correlation between the quality of housing and the health of its residents, since an inadequate physical and community environment accentuates the risk of suffering psychological and mental problems.

At the same time, it also implies higher mortality rates for all these causes.

In addition, the inability to maintain an adequate temperature in the home or energy poverty has also been linked to high rates of mortality and morbidity, mainly due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.

Project Members

UCAM researchers Paloma Echevarría, dean of the Faculty of Nursing;

Isabel Morales, Deputy Director of the Degree in Nursing;

Juan Roldán, director of the Degree in Architecture;

Francisco Sánchez, deputy director of the Degree in Architecture;

José Antonio Maestre, deputy director of the Degree in Building Engineering;

Belén López Ayuso, Vice Rector of Virtual Education and Vice Dean of the Degree in Computer Engineering;

Juan A. Pacheco, secretary of the Master's Degree in Building Pathology;

David Maestre, Professor of the Degree in Architecture and other professors of the Faculty of Nursing and the Degree in Computer Science, together with five entities from Spain, Poland and Romania, will provide information and training to professionals in the construction area to acquire the capacity of projecting homes as a health context.

The European project 'BIMhealthy' is co-financed by the EU, through the Erasmus + program, and supervised by the Office of International Projects (OPRI) of the UCAM.

This group of researchers from the Catholic University of Murcia has met together with its Spanish partners, which are the Business Association of Research Technology Center of Marble and Stone, and the Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research of the Valencian Community , in order to decide the research methodology and the tools that will be used to make them known later in the initial project meeting.

A meeting that will take place at the Cehegín Marble Technology Center, where they will congregate with the rest of European partners constituted by the Transilvania University of Bra? Ov (Romania);

Politechnika Warszawska University (Poland) and software development company, Datacomp (Poland).

The tool will analyze how to minimize the existing risk factors from its design, micro location and construction, then extend to its use and maintenance, which also affect the health of its inhabitants.

Source: UCAM