Blockchain and Building Information Management (BIM) for Sustainable Building Development within the Context of Smart Cities

Abstract

‘Smart cities’ are a new type of city where stakeholders are jointly responsible for urban management. City Information Management (CIM) is an output tool for smart city planning and management, which assists in achieving the sustainable development of urban infrastructure, and promotes smart cities to achieve the goals of stable global economic development, sustainable environmental development, and improvement of people’s quality of life. Existing research has so far established that blockchain and BIM have great potential to enhance construction project performance. However, there is little research on how blockchain and BIM can support sustainable building design and construction. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore the potential impact of the integration of blockchain and BIM in a smart city environment on making buildings more sustainable within the context of CIM/Smart Cities. The paper explores the relationships between blockchain, BIM and sustainable building across the life cycle stage of a construction project. This paper queries the Web of Science (WoS) database with keywords to obtain relevant publication, and then uses the VOSviewer to visually analyze the relationships between blockchain, BIM, and sustainable building within the context of smart cities and CIM, which is conducted in bibliometric analysis followed by micro scheme analysis. The results demonstrate the value of this method in gauging the importance of these three topics, highlighting their interrelationships and identifying trends, giving researchers an objective research direction. Those aspects reported in the paper constitute an original contribution.

Gestão da operação e manutenção integrada ao building information modeling: análise cientométrica

“…Para alcançar o objetivo desta pesquisa, inicialmente foram identificadas as principais publicações do campo estudado, as quais foram recuperadas da base de dados Web of Science (WoS). A escolha da WoS como repositório a ser adotado no presente trabalho se deve aos seguintes fatores: (1) a WoS é maior base de dados internacional (WEN et al, 2021); (2) a WoS apresenta uma melhor comunicação com aplicações de análise cientométrica como o VOSviewer e o CiteSpace, e; (3) pesquisa recentes que fizeram análises cientométricas no âmbito do campo de pesquisa do BIM utilizaram a WoS como base de dados principal (KHUDHAIR et al, 2021;LIU et al, 2021;WEN et al, 2021).…”

Investigating Smart City Development Based on Green Buildings, Electrical Vehicles and Feasible Indicators

“…Sustainability 2021, 13, 7808 2 of 14 Essential renewable energy applications in smart city development are for green buildings (GBs) and electric vehicles (EVs). Limited resources of fossil fuels and an increase in demand for electricity have renewed interests in integrating GBs [4] and moving towards EVs in urban areas [5].…”

“…Zhen Liu et al, examined the potential impact of the integration of building information management and blockchain on making buildings more sustainable in a smart city environment. They showed that a complete life cycle study could help constructors, designers, supervisors, and decision-makers make informed and accurate decisions for green buildings in smart city development [13]. The importance of the Internet of Things (IOT) as an intelligent technology, examined by Waleed Ejazthe et al, enabled electric vehicles in smart cities.…”

BIM Visual Programming Tools Applications in Infrastructure Projects: A State-of-the-Art Review

“…A number of scholars (see, e.g., [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]) have discussed the benefits of implementing this approach in different AECO projects. However, these works are mainly focused on building projects [38,39]. Analyses of the benefits of BIM for infrastructure projects (such as bridges, tunnels, and roads) are relatively scarce in the literature.…”