Green Building Construction: A Systematic Review of BIM Utilization

Abstract

As a multi-function method, Building Information Modeling (BIM) can assist construction organizations in improving their project’s quality, optimize collaboration efficiency, and reduce construction periods and expenditure. Given the distinguished contributions of BIM utilization, there is a trend that BIM has significant potential to be utilized in the construction phase of green buildings. Compared with traditional buildings, green buildings have more stringent requirements, including environmental protection, saving energy, and residents’ comfort. Although BIM is deemed an effective method to achieve the abovementioned requirements in the construction process of green buildings, there are few systematic reviews that explore the capabilities of BIM in the construction phase of green buildings. This has hindered the utilization of BIM in the construction of green buildings. To bridge this research gap and review the latest BIM capabilities, this study was developed to perform a systematic review of the BIM capabilities in the construction phase of green buildings. In this systematic review, the PRISMA protocol has been used as the primary procedure for article screening and review. The entire systematic review was performed from January 2022 to April 2022. In this process, 165 articles were included, reviewed, and discussed. Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus were adopted as the databases. Through this systematic review, it can be identified that BIM capabilities have significant advantages in project quality improvement, lifecycle data storage and management, collaboration optimization, planning, and schedule management optimization in the construction phase of green buildings. Through the discussion, it can be concluded that BIM utilization can be adopted from the pre-construction phase to the post-construction stage in the green building construction process. Besides these, the barriers to BIM utilization in the green building construction phase are also revealed in the discussion section, including the non-uniform data format, insufficient interactivity, ambiguous ownership, insufficient BIM training, and hesitation toward BIM adoption. Moreover, the challenges and future directions of BIM utilization in green building construction are identified. The findings of this study can facilitate construction personnel to be acquainted with BIM capabilities in the construction of green buildings to promote the utilization and optimization of BIM capabilities in the green building construction process.

Comprehensive Social Cultural and Economic Benefits of Green Buildings Based on Improved AHP–FCE Method

“…Cao Yu et al studied the application of BIM technology in the construction process of green buildings and found that BIM technology is used in green building construction. It plays a big role in quality improvement, data storage, and collaborative optimization [43].…”

Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Green Building Projects

“…Moreover, BIM also can simulate (Ansah et al, 2019;Farahaneza et al, 2018;Gao et al, 2019;Memon et al, 2014;Wen et al, 2020) energy efficient analysis (Ghaffarianhoseini et al, 2016;Mirpanahi & Noorzai, 2021;Raouf & Al-Ghamdi, 2018) which in line with the goal of green building projects where to minimize the uses of energy of the building. BIM has been proven as a very beneficial approach in reducing uncertainties and improving the efficiency of the construction process (Cao et al, 2022;Eadie et al, 2013;Memon et al, 2014;Pu & Wang, 2021;Sacks et al, 2018), increasing the speed and utility of activities and improving the interaction between stakeholders (Huang et al, 2020b).…”

A Systematic Review of Green Building Development in China: Advantages, Challenges and Future Directions

“…A green building is a high-quality building that can conserve resources, protect the environment, minimize pollution, and provide occupants with a healthy, suitable, and efficient living environment, maximizing the benign coexistence of human beings and nature during the entire lifecycle of green buildings [9][10][11]50,67,[69][70][71][72][73][74]76,78,82,83,85,87]. The earliest official concepts of the modern green building date back to the 1960s [53][54][55].…”

“…According to the Evaluation Standard of Green Building in China, green buildings are buildings that provide environmental benignity, energy savings, pollution reduction, healthy residential environments, and comfortable utilization experiences throughout the entire lifecycle of the asset [9]. Compared to conventional architecture, green buildings have some significant advantages and benefits, including a low negative environmental impact, no toxic gas emissions, a preference for recycled materials and renewable energy utilization, and high residential satisfaction [10,11]. Based on the abovementioned contributions, green buildings have significant advantages regarding environmental protection and public health optimization.…”