Building information modelling (BIM) for sustainable building design

Wong, Kam Din; Fan, Quli

doi:10.1108/02632771311299412

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“…While in theory nD modelling has been made possible by the technological advancements, in practice it has not been effectively implemented in a holistic way. Some BIM related frameworks are based on the international assessment rating systems (Nofera and Korkmaz, 2010;Biswas and Tsung-Hsien Wang, 2008;Wong and Fan, 2012;Sinou and Kyvelou, 2006; Ghosh et al, 2011;Lützkendorf and Lorenz, 2006), while others have created tools that are integrated into BIM design software to automate performance based decision making (Schlueter and Thesseling, 2009;Welle et al, 2011;Feng et al, 2012; Huber et al, 2011;Mahdavi et al, 2001). Organisational aspects of BIM-enabled sustainable design have not been addressed sufficiently in the literature.…”

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Towards a BIM-enabled sustainable building design process: roles, responsibilities, and requirements

Zanni

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Ruikar

2016

Architectural Engineering and Design Management

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Environmental sustainability considerations are often treated as an add-on to building design, following ad hoc processes for their implementation. As a result, the most common problem to achieve a sustainable building outcome is the absence of the right information at the right time to make critical decisions. For design team members to appreciate the requirements of multidisciplinary collaboration, there is a need for transparency and a shared understanding of the process. This research presents the findings from 25 in-depth interviews with industry practitioners concerning 10 case studies of buildings, which achieved high sustainability certification ratings (e.g. BREEAM, Passivhaus, Part L), to identify best practices in sustainable building design (SBD). The results identify the key players' roles and responsibilities, tasks, deliverables and critical decision points for SBD. These components have been coordinated explicitly in a systematic process that utilises Information Communication Technology (ICT), Building Information Modelling (BIM), and Building Performance Analysis (BPA) software to realise the benefits of combining distributed teams' expertise. Keywords - IntroductionSustainable performance of buildings is currently a major concern among AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) professionals due to measures such as building legislations in addition to national and regional targets (Schlueter and Thesseling, 2009). The overall goal is to reduce the environmental impact of buildings, while enhancing human comfort and health. To address this issue, many countries and international organisations have initiated rating systems (e.g. BREEAM, LEED, Passivhaus) to assess sustainable construction (Azhar et al., 2011; Haapio and Viitaniemi, 2008). Currently, these assessment methods are used as frameworks for environmental design by building professionals, although they provide no guidance over the design process. Also, the design of such high performance buildings is a complex, nonlinear, iterative and interactive process that requires effective collaboration between the multidisciplinary 2 teams from the early stages in order to achieve sustainability outcomes (Bouchlaghem et al., 2005;Yang, Zou, and Keating, 2013).Building professionals utilise performance analysis tools extensively in order to predict and quantify aspects of sustainability from early design stages and significantly ameliorate both quality and cost during a building's life cycle (Attia, Beltrán, De Herde, and Hensen, 2009;Crawley, Hand, Kummert, and Griffith, 2008;Smith and Tardif, 2012;Tudor, 2013). As a result, building performance assessment workload becomes heavier at the early design stages compared to traditional project delivery. Additionally, timely contributions of design participants and accuracy of the information delivered are important for SBD to be successful (Brahme, Mahdavi, Lam, and Gupta, 2001). For this reason, the most significant challenge to delivering a successful sustainable building is commun...

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Towards a BIM-enabled sustainable building design process: roles, responsibilities, and requirements

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2016

Architectural Engineering and Design Management

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“…The study of Wong and Fan (2013) reveal that BIM enhances the delivery of green building projects, especially at the design stage, in two major ways. First, BIM is helpful to eliminate the many opportunities for miscommunication in the process of sharing information among project participants, and the potential for redundant production of information as a means of barring or checking for errors.…”

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“…At the planning stage of green building project delivery, stated that efficient sustainability integration can lead to achieving high sustainability outcomes. Hellmund, Van Den Wymelenberg, and Baker (2008) consider integrated design -which is the synthesis of building climate, load, use and system, to be part of the integrated project delivery of green building projects (Wong & Fan, 2013). As observed by , a multidisciplinary integrated design can be useful to understand project owners' needs and requirements, assess and rectify design errors, and to determine the right sustainability material usage and installation.…”

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“…In this regard, BIM would be eliminating costly human errors of data entry (Hellmund, et al, 2008), in addition to contributing to improving communication, while more time can be invested on improving design and speeding the construction (Wong & Fan, 2013). Second, BIM is used to design-optimise proposed green building projects by using BIM software such as Revit to select the best building orientation and the appropriate degree of massing, and using BIM-based analysis tools such as ECOTEC to simulate and analyse the sustainability levels of green building projects.…”

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“…Second, BIM is used to design-optimise proposed green building projects by using BIM software such as Revit to select the best building orientation and the appropriate degree of massing, and using BIM-based analysis tools such as ECOTEC to simulate and analyse the sustainability levels of green building projects. The common analyses that BIM can be used to perform on green building projects are energy analysis, daylighting/solar analysis, building orientation analysis, massing analysis and site analysis (Azhar & Brown, 2009;Wong & Fan, 2013). BIM could enhance the delivery of green building projects because of the capacity to automate the complex processes involved in the project delivery, and to capture and coordinate information into a single integrated model (Azhar & Brown, 2009).…”

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