Building life cycle applied to refurbishment of a traditional building from Oporto, Portugal

Rodrigues, Francisco; Matos, Raquel; Alves, Ana Rita; Ribeirinho, Paulo; Rodrigues, Hugo

doi:10.1016/j.jobe.2018.01.010

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“…The aim of the first step was to define the scope of the literature review. BIM is an interdisciplinary digital tool that has been studied in various AEC areas, such as: project management (Cao et al , 2018), construction automation (Mangal and Cheng, 2018), building performance analysis (Pinheiro et al , 2018), structural analysis (Ramaji and Memari, 2018), facility management (Rodrigues et al , 2018), as well as BIM integrated with other emerging technologies such as laser scanning (Santos et al , 2017). This study was about BIM-based research that focused on CEM activities, tasks, processes, issues, or human factors such as construction planning and constructability evaluation (Nascimento et al , 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Scientometric analysis of BIM-based research in construction engineering and management

Jin

Zou

Gidado

et al. 2019

ECAM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to summarize the latest research of BIM adoption in construction engineering and management (CEM) and propose research directions for future scholarly work. During the recent decade, building information modeling (BIM) has gained increasing applications and research interest in the construction industry. Although there have been review-based studies that summarized BIM-based research in the overall architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) area, there is limited review that evaluates the current stage of BIM-based research specifically in the CEM sub-area. Design/methodology/approach CEM falls into the scope of AEC. It involves construction-related tasks, activities and processes (e.g. scheduling and cost estimates), issues (e.g. constructability), as well as human factors (e.g. collaboration). This study adopted a holistic literature review approach that incorporates bibliometric search and scientometric analysis. A total of 276 articles related to BIM applied in CEM were selected from Scopus as the literature sample for the scientometric analysis. Findings Some key CEM research areas (e.g. CEM pedagogy, integrated project delivery, lean and off-site construction) were identified and evaluated. Research trends in these areas were identified, and analyses were carried out with regard to how they could be integrated with BIM. For example, BIM, as a data repository for ACE facilities, has substantial potential to be integrated with a variety of other digital technologies, project delivery methods and innovative construction techniques throughout the whole process of CEM. Practical implications As BIM is one of the key technologies and digital platforms to improve the construction productivity and collaboration, it is important for industry practitioners to be updated of the latest movement and progress of the academic research. The industry, academics and governmental authorities should work with joint effort to fill the gap by first recognizing the current needs, limitations and trends of applying BIM in the construction industry. For example, it needs more understanding about how to address technical interoperability issues and how to introduce the integrated design and construction delivery approach for BIM implementation under the UK BIM Level 2/3 framework. Originality/value This study contributed to the body of knowledge in BIM by proposing a framework leading to research directions including the differences of BIM effects between design-bid-build and other fast-track project delivery methods; the integration of BIM with off-site construction; and BIM pedagogy in CEM. It also addressed the need to investigate the similarities and differences between academia and industry toward perceiving the movement of BIM in construction field work.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scientometric analysis of BIM-based research in construction engineering and management

Jin

Zou

Gidado

et al. 2019

ECAM

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“…Much research has been done recently on how to reduce the environmental impacts of the existing building stock with refurbishment measures (Häkkinen 2012;Ballarini et al 2014;Assiego de Larriva et al 2014;Oregi et al 2015Oregi et al , 2017Corrado and Ballarini 2016;Agostino et al 2017). These studies mainly focus on investigating different refurbishment approaches and their influence on the environmental impacts of the buildings (Stazi et al 2012;Pomponi et al 2015;Ortiz et al 2016;Passer et al 2016;Ruud et al 2016;Rodrigues et al 2018). For the calculation of the environmental impacts the life cycle asessment (LCA) methodology is often applied.…”

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The role of electricity mix and production efficiency improvements on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of building components and future refurbishment measures

Obrecht

Jordan

Legat

et al. 2021

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose An estimation of the environmental impact of buildings by means of a life cycle assessment (LCA) raises uncertainty related to the parameters that are subject to major changes over longer time spans. The main aim of the present study is to evaluate the influence of modifications in the electricity mix and the production efficiency in the chosen reference year on the embodied impacts (i.e., greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions) of building materials and components and the possible impact of this on future refurbishment measures. Methods A new LCA methodological approach was developed and implemented that can have a significant impact on the way in which existing buildings are assessed at the end of their service lives. The electricity mixes of different reference years were collected and assessed, and the main datasets and sub-datasets were modified according to the predefined substitution criteria. The influence of the electricity-mix modification and production efficiency were illustrated on a selected existing reference building, built in 1970. The relative contribution of the electricity mix to the embodied impact of the production phase was calculated for four different electricity mixes, with this comprising the electricity mix from 1970, the current electricity mix and two possible future electricity-mix scenarios for 2050. The residual value of the building was also estimated. Results and discussion In the case presented, the relative share of the electricity mix GHG emission towards the total value was as high as 20% for separate building components. If this electricity mix is replaced with an electricity mix having greater environmental emissions, the relative contribution of the electricity mix to the total emissions can be even higher. When, by contrast, the modified electricity mix is almost decarbonized, the relative contribution to the total emissions may well be reduced to a point where it becomes negligible. The modification of the electricity mix can also influence the residual value of a building. In the observed case, the differences due to different electricity mixes were in the range of 10%. Conclusions It was found that those parameters that are subject to a major change during the reference service period of the building should be treated dynamically in order to obtain reliable results. Future research is foreseen to provide additional knowledge concerning the influence of dynamic parameters on both the use phase and the end-of-life phase of buildings, and these findings will also be important when planning future refurbishment measures.

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“…The context of existing and future residential structures for hydro-thermal modelling and monitoring tools was another subject for health monitoring [ 244 ]. The advantages of utilization BIM for monitoring and optimization of complex refurbishment cases were the main subject of various studies that investigated the barriers and research directions of this approach [ 121 , 245 , 246 , 247 , 248 , 249 ]. Okakpu et al [ 250 ] identified four dimensions that encompassed the impacts of BIM adoption specific to refurbishment projects and Becker et al [ 248 ] conducted research for data collection and actual modelling.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The future work in this category includes considering the inherent value of confined space monitoring system (CoSMoS), advanced methods for achieving patterns in real-time data for creating an intelligent digital built environment [ 243 ], BIM effects on application of life cycle assessment in buildings refurbishment [ 249 ] and development of intra-data collection to monitor local projects [ 251 ].…”

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Application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Health Monitoring and Maintenance Process: A Systematic Review

Panah

Kioumarsi

2021

Sensors

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Improvements in the science of health monitoring and maintenance have facilitated the observation of damage and defects in existing structures and infrastructures, such as bridges and railways. The need to extend sensing technology through the use of wireless sensors as well as the lack of description tools for understanding, visualizing, and documenting sensor outputs has encouraged researchers to use powerful tools such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) systems. BIM has become important because of conducting tools widely used in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry to present and manage information on structural systems and situations. Since combining health monitoring and maintenance results with BIM models is a new field of study, and most projects utilize various aspects of it, we have conducted a review of important work related to this subject published from 2010 to November of 2020. After reviewing 278 journal articles, research trends, approaches, methods, gaps, and future agenda related to BIM in monitoring and maintenance were highlighted. This paper, through a bibliometric and content analysis, concludes that besides main improvements, some limitations now exist which affect the modeling and maintenance process. These limitations are related to extending the IFC schema, optimizing sensor data, interoperability among various BIM platforms, optimization of various sensing technologies for fault detection and management of huge amounts of data, besides consideration of environmental effects on monitoring hazards and underground objects. Finally, this paper aims to help to solve the mentioned limitation through a comprehensive review of existing research.

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Building life cycle applied to refurbishment of a traditional building from Oporto, Portugal

Cited by 37 publications

References 12 publications

Scientometric analysis of BIM-based research in construction engineering and management

Scientometric analysis of BIM-based research in construction engineering and management

The role of electricity mix and production efficiency improvements on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of building components and future refurbishment measures

Application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Health Monitoring and Maintenance Process: A Systematic Review

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