Integrating BIM-Based LCA and Building Sustainability Assessment

Carvalho, José Pedro Almeida; Alecrim, Ismael; Bragança, L.; Mateus, Ricardo

doi:10.3390/su12187468

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“…Designers can quickly compare the life cycle impacts and costs of different building elements/envelopes. Additionally, the results of this method are also in line with the sustainability assessment method SBToolPT-H, allowing for the assessment of 3 out of 25 criteria [27,38].…”

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“…Overall, the LOD 300 has also been identified as the most appropriate to carry out LCA analysis. Typical approaches consist of the collection of LCI data-Bill of Quantities (BoQ)-from BIM to compare the environmental impacts of different solutions in a specific project phase [27]. Nevertheless, Rezaei et al [28] made a BIM-based LCA analysis capable of acting from the project conceptual stage until the design stage.…”

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Assessing Life Cycle Environmental and Economic Impacts of Building Construction Solutions with BIM

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Worldwide authorities are increasingly concerned about construction’s efficiency and sustainability, leading to the development of high-performance buildings. However, such facts have shifted a significant percentage of the building life cycle environmental impacts from the operation to the product and construction phases. Thus, the need to evaluate and select more sustainable materials and construction solutions arises, to also minimize impacts from these stages. To evaluate those impacts, LCA and LCC analysis are usually applied to assess the building impacts and costs, through the different life cycle stages. Despite the usefulness of LCA and LCC methods during the project phase, they are usually evaluated in the project later stages. It is too complex and time-consuming to gather and process all the required data during the project early stages. With the recent deployment of BIM, the opportunity to automate and shift LCA and LCC analysis to project early stages stands out. Facing the research gap, this study aims to develop a BIM-based decision-making tool for designers to evaluate the environmental, economic, and functional performance of different building construction solutions. To do so, 18 different simulation scenarios have been created in Autodesk Revit with different combinations of external walls, roofs, and floors. Then, a framework was developed in Dynamo to automatically characterize the building elements life cycle environmental impacts and costs, as well as to automate the LCA and LCC analysis during the project early stages. The outcomes can significantly reduce the required time, errors and efforts when performing LCA and LCC analysis, providing designers with real time decision support data and making an important contribution to the use of BIM for sustainability purposes.

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Assessing Life Cycle Environmental and Economic Impacts of Building Construction Solutions with BIM

2021

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“…BIM technologies are used for various aspects of construction life-cycle management such as: assessing building performance for improvement requirements, monitoring all activities throughout the project, optimization of cost and time, using BIM for monitoring the sustainability of buildings with technologies such as IoT solution, developing a 5D BIM model for dynamic monitoring of deep foundation by considering time and cost, and real-time online monitoring of underground space to eliminate errors and difficulties related to this area [ 254 , 255 , 256 , 257 , 258 , 259 , 260 , 261 ].…”

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

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2021

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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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“…For example, Švajlenka et al [19] reported the commercial availability of process databases for material and energy flows to improve on the lack of data for LCA. An analysis of state of the art in the integration of LCA with building information modeling (BIM) for data management [20][21][22] highlights many benefits: the integration of BIM-LCA with environmental product declarations (EPDs) for detailed and accurate data for a life cycle inventory [23]; the integration of building LCA and BIM's standard industry foundation classes (IFC) to reduce access barriers and assessment effort/time [24,25]; the comparison of LCAs of buildings with different material structure alternatives [26]. These advantages are the point of departure for assessing the relevance of an exergy-based LCA of buildings.…”

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Exergy-Based Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings: Case Studies

Nwodo

Anumba

2021

Sustainability

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The relevance of exergy to the life cycle assessment (LCA) of buildings has been studied regarding its potential to solve certain challenges in LCA, such as the characterization and valuation, accuracy of resource use, and interpretation and comparison of results. However, this potential has not been properly investigated using case studies. This study develops an exergy-based LCA method and applies it to three case-study buildings to explore its benefits. The results provide evidence that the theoretical benefits of exergy-based LCA as against a conventional LCA can be achieved. These include characterization and valuation benefits, accuracy, and enabling the comparison of environmental impacts. With the results of the exergy-based LCA method in standard metrics, there is now a mechanism for the competitive benchmarking of building sustainability assessments. It is concluded that the exergy-based life cycle assessment method has the potential to solve the characterization and valuation problems in the conventional life-cycle assessment of buildings, with local and global significance.

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Integrating BIM-Based LCA and Building Sustainability Assessment

Cited by 49 publications

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Assessing Life Cycle Environmental and Economic Impacts of Building Construction Solutions with BIM

Assessing Life Cycle Environmental and Economic Impacts of Building Construction Solutions with BIM

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

Exergy-Based Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings: Case Studies

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