WILSON – Distributed data modelling and Federated Digital Twinning for lifecycle data-driven sustainable operation and management of buildings and districts

About the Project:

The built environment faces mounting pressures from climate change, resource scarcity, and the need for sustainable development across the full lifecycle of buildings. Yet, fragmented and siloed data within Building Management Systems (BMS) limits the effective use of lifecycle information for informed sustainability decision-making. WILSON addresses this challenge by introducing a transformative approach built on semantic data repositories, cognitive digital twins, and decentralised data management. Through a holistic and extensible data mesh architecture, the project ensures interoperability with existing proprietary BMS and Digital Twin systems while enabling improved building operations, environmental impact assessment, circularity evaluation, and advanced diagnostics. Central to this ecosystem are Personalised Building Data Hubs (PDHs), which apply International Data Space (IDS) principles to enable trusted data exchange and service transactions via a P2P marketplace.

Complementing these technological solutions, WILSON will deliver an Investment Tool providing stakeholders with detailed insights to guide decisions regarding building operation, renovation, and uptake of sustainable assets. To maximise its relevance and impact across Europe, the project’s integrated solutions will be validated in four large-scale pilots representing diverse contexts: a public district in Italy, a coastal hospital in Spain, an urban mixed district in the UK, and a rural residential area in Switzerland.

Press Release #7 – WILSON & UPSCALE Projects Announce Joint Workshop on Data Spaces for Construction

The WILSON and UPSCALE Projects will host the international “Data Spaces for Construction” workshop at TU/e on 21 May 2026, bringing together experts from research, industry, technology, and policy to advance interoperable, secure, and sovereign data sharing across the built environment. The event will explore essential components of construction-focused data spaces, such as reference architectures, governance and trust frameworks, semantic standards, and technical integration layers, through three parallel hands-on sessions covering business readiness, governance models, and scalable technical architectures. Concluding with a synthesis plenary, networking forum, and reception, the workshop aims to strengthen collaboration and shape a shared roadmap that accelerates the adoption of open, trustworthy, and interoperable data spaces, supporting Europe’s move toward more circular, digital, and climate‑neutral construction ecosystems.

For more information: https://wilson-project.eu/wilson-press-release-v7/

Recent Publications

WILSON’s latest publications showcase the project’s advancements in intelligent, interoperable, and sustainability‑driven solutions for the built environment. The first explores how adaptive and general‑purpose AI can better leverage complex building data to move beyond fixed-purpose automation. The second introduces a domain‑specific Vocabulary Hub that enhances semantic data exchange and interoperability across AECO data spaces. The third presents a hybrid assessment method for evaluating the impacts and benefits of nature‑based solutions in urban systems.

For more information: https://wilson-project.eu/publications/