A database of materials and components was developed, integrating material intelligence with BIM and IoT systems. The work responds to the growing need for reliable, standardized data on materials’ properties, interventions, and life-cycle performance to support climate-resilient and circular infrastructure management. By combining material, structural, environmental, and economic attributes in a centralized schema, the deliverable enables the generation of dynamic Material Passports (MPs) that link to enriched IFC models and adaptation datasets. This integration facilitates life-cycle costing, circularity assessment, and resilience planning within RISKADAPT’s digital ecosystem.
A user-friendly, web-based interface was created that integrates and visualizes multi-source data from the PRISKADAPT system, including structural, climatological, and socio-economic information. Within RISKADAPT’s climate risk framework, it transforms complex analytical results into intuitive 3D visualizations, interactive dashboards, and tailored user views.
What problem, limitation or gap in current practice does this address?
Current practice in infrastructure management faces major limitations: fragmented data coming from different sources, static documentation formats, and poor interoperability between material databases and digital modelling tools. These gaps were adressed by developing an automated, openBIM-compliant workflow that embeds material and sustainability data directly into digital asset models. The resulting MPs evolve from static inventories to interactive decision-support tools, allowing users to compare baseline (“as-is”) and adaptation scenarios (“what if”), evaluate environmental and economic performance, and forecast end-of-life value. By aligning with EU initiatives such as the Circular Economy Action Plan and Digital Product Passport, a scalable foundation for data-driven, sustainable adaptation strategies is established.
The user frontend interface addresses critical gaps in current practice such as fragmented data interpretation, limited accessibility, and communication barriers between technical and non-technical users. Providing a customizable, role-based interface and scenario visualization tools, contributes to enhanced transparency, better usability, and efficient decision-making, ensuring that resilience and adaptation insights are accessible and actionable for a diverse range of stakeholders including but not limited to climatologists, engineers, asset owners, policy makers, social scientists etc.
What was done?
A centralized materials’ database was developed and generated dynamic Materials/Components Passports within the RISKADAPT digital platform. Activities included consolidating material data—physical, mechanical, environmental, and economic—across pilot assets, integrating them with BIM and adaptation datasets. The main outputs were:
(1) a unified material database schema;
(2) enriched IFC models embedding sustainability attributes; and
(3) Excel-based adaptation option files containing lifecycle, cost, and risk indicators.
Together, these components formed comprehensive Material Passports downloadable through the RISKADAPT platform, supporting lifecycle, circularity, and resilience analyses for multiple infrastructure pilots under real climate adaptation scenarios.
The user-interface was designed, developed and tested through iterative prototyping, data integration, and pilot validation. Activities included requirements analysis, system architecture design, module integration, 3D visualization development, user customization features, and comprehensive usability testing.
Methods and approaches
A data-driven, openBIM methodology was applied combining Building Information Modelling (BIM), Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA), and Life-Cycle Costing (LCC) within RISKADAPT’s Data Management System. A RESTful API dynamically linked BIM models with the centralized materials database, while Python scripts enriched IFC files with environmental and economic indicators. Adaptation options—representing interventions and transactions—were processed through Excel interfaces for “what-if” analyses. The approach was validated through RISKADAPT pilot assets (e.g., power transmission towers), demonstrating interoperability, automated data enrichment, and integration of materials intelligence into multi-hazard and adaptation decision-support frameworks.
The the user interface was developed using a modular open web architecture combining PRISKADAPT data sources, BIM models, climate datasets, and social indicators, validated through pilots with role-based access, dynamic visualization, and adaptive, user-centric design principles.
Main results
An operational database was delivered, consolidating numerous material entries across RISKADAPT pilots and generated automated Material Passports integrating BIM, cost, and environmental data. Each passport comprised an enriched IFC model and a companion Excel file covering baseline and adaptation scenarios. These results demonstrated full traceability from asset to material level and real-time evaluation of cost–carbon trade-offs, establishing a foundation for scalable, climate-resilient material management.
A functional, scalable interface was implemente displaying risk assessment results, LCA/LCC outcomes, and social impacts, supporting “as-is” and “what-if” scenarios for the four RISKADAPT pilots, enhancing comprehension and decision support across stakeholders.
How results adress the need
Fragmented, static, and non-interoperable material data, limiting lifecycle analysis and circular planning. These challenges were addressed by structuring and digitizing material intelligence within an openBIM ecosystem, linking it with LCA/LCC indicators and adaptation datasets. The resulting Material Passports provide transparent, standardized, and updatable information on properties, costs, and impacts—eliminating manual data transfer and enabling consistent decision-making across disciplines. This directly supports RISKADAPT’s goal of integrating resilience and circularity, enhancing infrastructure adaptability, and enabling evidence-based choices for sustainable design, maintenance, and end-of-life management under climate stressors.
The developed interface provides a tool for filling the gap of fragmented data interpretation and communication barriers by translating complex analytics into intuitive visuals, improving accessibility, inclusivity, and evidence-based climate resilience planning that can be elaborated by a diverse range of users.
Innovation compared to practice
A framework and corresponding tools are provided for transforming Material Passports from static records into dynamic, digital assets. Unlike conventional databases or BIM models, RISKADAPT’s workflow automatically enriches IFC files with real-time environmental and economic data through standardized APIs, ensuring interoperability with openBIM and EU Digital Product Passport frameworks. It uniquely integrates adaptation options and risk metrics (e.g., Expected Annual Loss) within the same dataset—linking material performance, lifecycle impact, and resilience outcomes. This automation, combined with alignment to European circular-economy standards, represents a novel, scalable model for data-driven, climate-adaptive material management across diverse infrastructure typologies.
Unlike static dashboards, RISKADAPT adaptive interface fuses structural, climate, and socio-economic data into interactive 3D environments, offering role-specific outputs and scenario-based risk visualization for improved cross-sector decision-making.
Conclusions & Next steps
Infrastructure asset management is advanced and technical interoperability is delivered through openBIM. Moreover, it supports EU circular economy and climate-resilience policies, while at the same time empowers society with transparent, data-driven tools for sustainable infrastructure design, reuse, and lifecycle decision-making. The developed user-interface provides risk visualization of infrastructure assets, advances technical integration of multi-source data, supports EU climate adaptation and resilience policies, and empowers society through accessible, transparent tools for informed decision-making and cross-sector collaboration on infrastructure resilience.
The results align with the EU Digital Product Passport, Construction Products Regulation, and Circular Economy Action Plan, informing data standardization and lifecycle reporting. They provide evidence for future policies, green procurement frameworks, and industry standards supporting circular, climate-resilient infrastructure management. The developed user-interface can lay the ground for standardizing digital risk communication, guiding EU adaptation frameworks, and informing future policies on data-driven resilience planning. It can be also commercially exploited and integrated into smart infrastructure and civil protection systems.
The database will be scaled to additional asset types, integrating with RISKADAPT’s probabilistic LCA/LCC models, and validating interoperability across pilot cases, guiding standardization and possibly commercialization, and policy uptake of dynamic Material Passports in European infrastructure planning.Next steps include extending visualization capabilities, incorporating feedback from pilot users, enhancing interoperability with external platforms, and refining user customization features to support standardization, policy adoption, and large-scale deployment of RISKADAPT tools.