ICT-enabled Collaborative Working Environment for Concurrent Conceptual Design

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

“…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).…”

“…Viewpoint, Asite, Conject) facilitate a CDE for communication of project information among the project teams (Anumba, Baugh, and Khalfan, 2002). For SBD, the need for coordinating a larger amount of information from a wider range of participants, as supported by CDEs, increases significantly (Bouchlaghem et al, 2005;Yang, Zou, and Keating, 2013).…”

“…Viewpoint, Asite, Conject) facilitate a CDE for communication of project information among the project teams (Anumba, Baugh, and Khalfan, 2002). For SBD, the need for coordinating a larger amount of information from a wider range of participants, as supported by CDEs, increases significantly (Bouchlaghem et al, 2005;Yang, Zou, and Keating, 2013).Although BIM adoption in the UK has increased in recent years (NBS, 2015), there is scant evidence that sustainability has been systematically considered as an integral part of the BIM collaborative process. 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.…”

“…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.…”

Participated Planning of Large Water Infrastructures through Virtual Prototyping Technologies

“…For example, INTEGRA is a VR tool to involve various remote stakeholders in the design of buildings [40]. Different aspects are integrated together, including visualisation, cost modeling and risk assessment.…”