appears_in: []
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: 'Brick is an open-source effort to standardize semantic descriptions
  of the physical, logical and virtual assets in buildings and the relationships between
  them. Brick consists of an extensible dictionary of terms and concepts in and around
  buildings, a set of relationships for linking and composing concepts together, and
  a flexible data model permitting seamless integration of Brick with existing tools
  and databases. Through the use of powerful Semantic Web technology, Brick can describe
  the broad set of idiosyncratic and custom features, assets and subsystems found
  across the building stock in a consistent matter. Adopting Brick as the canonical
  description of a building enables the following: 1) Brick lowers the cost of deploying
  analytics, energy efficiency measures and intelligent controls across buildings,
  2) Brick presents an integrated, cross-vendor representation of the multitude of
  subsystems in modern buildings: HVAC, lighting, fire, security and so on, 3) Brick
  simplifies the development of smart analytics and control applications, and 4) Brick
  reduces the reliance upon the non-standard, unstructured labels endemic to building
  management systems.'
download_owl: https://github.com/BrickSchema/Brick/releases/download/nightly/Brick.ttl
download_rdf: https://brickschema.org/schema/1.3.0/Brick.ttl
example: Ablutions_Room
example_extras: []
homepage: https://brickschema.org/ontology/
keywords:
- architecture
- building design
- building informatics
- building information modeling
- civil engineering
- digital planning and construction
- energy engineering
- engineering
- fid baudigital
- industrial engineering
- nfdi4energy
- nfdi4ing
- ontology
- power engineering
- systems engineering
license: BSD-3-Clause
logo: https://api.fairsharing.org/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBYXc9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--5c7080d13b18a371dfa46816c406e7c896c6f921/Brick.png?disposition=inline
mappings:
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.e1c595
  tib: brick
name: Brick Ontology
namespace_in_lui: false
preferred_prefix: brick
prefix: brick
providers: []
publications:
- doi: 10.1145/3408308.3431125
  title: Interactive Metadata Integration with Brick
  year: 2020
- doi: 10.1145/3408308.3427627
  title: Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle
  year: 2020
- doi: 10.1145/3360322.3360862
  title: Beyond a House of Sticks
  year: 2019
- doi: 10.1145/3276774.3276796
  title: Mortar
  year: 2018
- doi: 10.1145/3276774.3276795
  title: Scrabble
  year: 2018
- doi: 10.1145/3276774.3276794
  title: Plaster
  year: 2018
- doi: 10.1145/3199666
  title: Design and Analysis of a Query Processor for Brick
  year: 2018
- doi: 10.1145/3137133.3141449
  title: HodDB
  year: 2018
- doi: 10.1145/2993422.2993577
  title: Brick
  year: 2016
- doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.02.091
  title: 'Brick : Metadata schema for portable smart building applications'
  year: 2018
- doi: 10.1016/j.aei.2018.04.010
  title: A large-scale evaluation of automated metadata inference approaches on sensors
    from air handling units
  year: 2018
repository: https://github.com/BrickSchema/Brick
synonyms: []
uri_format: https://brickschema.org/schema/Brick#$1
