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Optimising
Optimisation
Unlocking the
hidden intelligence
of buildings

BirdLab (Building Informatics R&D Lab Ltd) is an applied research and development company established to drive more scalable, reliable and cost-effective performance optimisation for commercial buildings. Its long-term purpose is to bridge the gap between academic research and commercially viable solutions that can be applied across extensive property portfolios in the global real estate market.

By drawing together building services engineering, control systems optimisation, applied data science and physics-integrated simulation, BirdLab focuses on the interrogation of Building Automation/Management System (BAS/BMS) metadata. Its work supports research into the development of automated onboarding processes for building analytics platforms, alongside HVAC controls analysis, thermovolumetric optimisation and the scalable calibration of building simulation models.

Industry
Sponsorship

BirdLab is the official industry sponsor for the PhD research programme at King’s College London providing a formal platform for applied research and development relating to informatic system interrogation and commercial building performance optimisation.

This structure has been established to maintain a close connection between academic research, industry practice and commercial enterprise. BirdLab provides the technical and corporate context for developing scalable optimisation methods, including the automated identification and verification of HVAC system control points from BAS/BMS backup files.

Alongside its academic programme, BirdLab intends to work with a small number of carefully selected industry partners to help validate emerging research methods against real occupied building environments. This approach allows close technical collaboration during the early stages of development while ensuring that the work undertaken addresses practical operational challenges rather than remaining purely theoretical in nature. In this sense, BirdLab operates as a university “spin-in” company.