The overarching goal of Area 1 “Digital Engineering” is to develop a methodological framework and a corresponding software toolchain that enables the integrated application of digital methods in construction.

In this respect, the findings and results of the first funding period will be further streamlined and expanded in order to provide more holistic methods for design planning that enable reasoning with calculation methods from different domains. More precisely, Area 1 is aimed at:

• Knowledge representations that enable the integration and management of knowledge in a product lifecycle management context
• computer methods that enable reasoning between the different phases of PLM, and
• the formalization of design tasks, enabling engineers to formalize the relevant knowledge required for the application of a digital (computer) method themselves