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INVICARA
comfort, cost & carbon - optimized

Invicara is a Singapore headquartered software startup. Established in 2012, Invicara will bring to market intelligent software for high performance, sustainable buildings. Leveraging information modeling techniques such as BIM (Building Information Modeling) and other leading edge technologies; Invicara products will help optimize building performance - enhancing comfort for building occupants whilst reducing cost of operations and lowering carbon footprint of the building / campus / portfolio.

Vicara is a Buddhist term for "Sustained application of mind". Invicara characterizes the transformation of information into actionable intelligence

Domain

A NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) study on cost analysis of inadequate interoperability in the U.S. Capital Facilities Industry, shows that all stakeholders in the capital facilities industry (designers, contractors, product suppliers, owners) waste a vast amount of money looking for, validating, and/or recreating facility information that should be readily available. The total losses resulting from the above, within the Capital Facilities Industry in the USA was conservatively estimated at $15.8’’ in 2002, with two-thirds of that cost occurring during the facilities’ operations & maintenance phase. Other studies estimate this value to be far higher, with the global costs exceeding US$ 130" per annum.

The use of BIM in building construction is expected to substantially reduce losses during design & construction, incurred due to delays and cost escalations on account of claims for rectification and re-work caused by poor co-ordination. BIM would also reduce the time and effort involved in information management by avoiding the need to recreate design / construction data at various phases of the project.


 * 1) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicara#section_6
 * 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_information_modeling
 * 3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability
 * 4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint
 * 5) http://fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/build04/art022.html