Blockchain Technology for Smart Thinking: The Intangible Digital Assets for AI-enabled Monitoring and Improving Process Performance and Reducing Building Impacts on Ecology

Buildings are significant contributors to the climate change. Efforts to improve the impacts of the built environment are scattered, limited in their validity and reliability, and lack consistency, structure, and rigor. Current methods of post-occupancy evaluation are dispersed and lack a common shared platform for collective learning and collaborative feedback.
Although subject to its definition, scope, and signification, design on its own may or may not be regarded as an intangible asset, it encompasses, triggers, and entails many intangible assets which may get lost in documentation due to lack of unified protocols to capture, store and retrieve them. Smart design may have different delineations; as a design approach associated with smart systems, capable of operationalizing the S.M.A.R.T. principles in the context of creative practices; or as a form of self-adaptation of, and/or to, intelligent systems.
This chapter looks into how design intangible assets can be used for peer-to-peer data capture to be fed into blockchain ledgers constructed over time as immutable, tamper-proof data chains accessible through a smart AI-enabled design toolkit to help designers improve their design’s performance and reduce their ecological and environmental impacts.