Investigation into informational compatibility of Building Information Modelling and Building Performance Analysis software solutions

Hyun, Seung; Marjanovic-Halburd, Ljiljana; Raslan, Rokia

doi:10.2495/bim150441

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“…The efforts to bridge this gap were channeled towards synchronizing the data exchange between the architectural model and the energy model. According to Hyun et al [1], BIM can play a key role in improving the consistency of construction information related to building energy analysis. Through the use of BIM, the process of creating an energy model can be easily automated.…”

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Behavioral and parametric effects on energy consumption through BIM, BEM, and ABM

Hajj-Hassan¹,

Khoury²

2018

Creative Construction Conference 2018 - Proceedings

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Over the past years, several tools and methods have been developed to address performance-related designs and provide designers with integrative platforms to estimate building energy consumption and mitigate its impact. However, the predictions obtained through different energy modeling engines have been typically deviating from the actual energy consumption. As such, many efforts have attempted at bridging this so-called "performance gap. Nonetheless, this was conducted in a fragmented fashion whereby synchronizing the geometric exchange of Building Information Modeling (BIM) to Building Energy Modeling (BEM) was done independently from incorporating, through Agent-Based Modelling (ABM), building occupants' behavior vis-à-vis energy consumption. Therefore, this paper merges the aforementioned approaches and presents work targeted at assessing the diverse and dynamic energy-use behavior of occupants using BIM, BEM and ABM. To that end, a simulation environment was developed to study both the parametric design and behavioural factors. The design parameters included within a BIM model were utilized to set the thermal zone, the internal zone gains were defined using ABM, and resulting data was exported as an input data file to EnergyPlus. Several experiments have been conducted for the case of an academic office and results of the energy analysis highlighted a variation of up to 11% as compared to static occupant behavioral patterns generally adopted.

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Behavioral and parametric effects on energy consumption through BIM, BEM, and ABM

Hajj-Hassan¹,

Khoury²

2018

Creative Construction Conference 2018 - Proceedings

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Review of BIM's application in energy simulation: Tools, issues, and solutions

Kamel

Memari

2019

Automation in Construction

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Improving the Design of Energy-Efficient Building Retrofitting

Hukkalainen

Klobut

Mäkeläinen

et al. 2018

Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering

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Practical guidelines are presented for improved process for design and retrofitting of energy-efficient buildings, with an aim to integrate buildings better with the neighbourhood energy system, among others through energy matching. The chapter describes the role of energy simulations in an integrated building retrofitting process and how to select technologies for the retrofitting toward nearly zero energy building level. Feasibility of performing a holistic analysis of retrofitting options can be increased through the integration of BIM, well populated, and linked databases and a multi-criteria decision-making approach. Multiple-criteria decision-making methods aid taking into account a number of building energy performance and user-preference-related criteria and the trade-offs between the different criteria for each retrofitting option. The real-life viewpoints and benefits of utilising the developed methods and processes are discussed, especially from the Eastern European view.

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Investigation into informational compatibility of Building Information Modelling and Building Performance Analysis software solutions

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Behavioral and parametric effects on energy consumption through BIM, BEM, and ABM

Behavioral and parametric effects on energy consumption through BIM, BEM, and ABM

Review of BIM's application in energy simulation: Tools, issues, and solutions

Improving the Design of Energy-Efficient Building Retrofitting

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