Visual Programming Language for Hydropower Plants Facility Management

In recent decades, climate change and aging infrastructure have posed new challenges for Civil Engineering. In the domain of hydraulic infrastructures, there is a growing need to plan life-cycle management from the earliest design stages to optimize maintenance and prevent failures. The digitization of infra-structures, enabled by the development of Building Information Modelling (BIM), enhances resource control and collaboration among the various stake-holders involved in the project. It also establishes a framework for accessing valuable geometric and physical data for Facility Management (FM). This article investigates the integration of Visual Programming Language (VPL) with BIM models of hydropower plants, performing unsteady-state sim-ulations within a unified platform that connects model parameters with hy-draulic calculations. The proposed application is tested in a real-world case study, highlighting its potential for both design and FM operations.