Method for Building Information Modeling Supported Project Control of Nearly Zero-Energy Building Delivery

Abstract

With the increasing number of nearly zero-energy buildings (NZEB) due to increase of global awareness on climate change, the new concepts of design and control must be developed because of great NZEB dependency on detailing and multidisciplinary approach. This paper proposes a three-level gateway control method for NZEB project delivery by using digital representation of the building in building information modeling (BIM) environment. These controls (C1, C2 and C3) are introduced before three main phases of any project delivery—design phase, construction phase and handover. The proposed project control procedure uses black-box building energy modeling within the BIM environment, so the paper explores the reliability of one tool for direct energy modeling within the BIM-authoring software. The paper shows two types of validation tests with satisfactory results. This leads to conclusion that analyzed tool for energy simulation within BIM environment can be used in a way that is described in a proposed project control procedure. For further research it is proposed to explore reliability of tools for energy simulation connected to other BIM-authoring software, so this project control procedure could be independent of BIM-authoring software used in the paper.

How BIM Contributes to a Building’s Energy Efficiency throughout Its Whole Life Cycle: Systematic Mapping

“…Future research directions discussed in recent studies include the information exchange and interoperability problems [15,20,27,28], energy management during the building operation stage and predictive analysis using BIM-aided building management systems [12,13,16,29,32,52,56,57]. These areas of interest are especially relevant, considering the issues introduced recently in the field of the BIM-based design and construction of new buildings or retrofitting of existing buildings as zero-emission, positive-energy or active houses [17,34,35,[58][59][60].…”

“…Most studies emphasize the need for more accurate data transfer, including the following: site-to-BIM [15]; between the BIM model and various simulation environments and tools, such as building energy simulation tools [8,12,26,28,[30][31][32]34,35,51,56,61]; GIS [16,44,[62][63][64]; BIM-O&M applications [12,17,20,26,29,52]; building sustainability assessment tools [20,50,53,55]; between BIM and IoT [9,13,16,52,54]. Matarneh et al [15] stated that future research could focus on the information exchange and interoperability issues that arise throughout the whole building life cycle, as well as easier BIM implementation in FM.…”

“…The initial stage of applying BIM in energy management involves providing basic building information for the energy analysis [6,7,14,29,30,33,34]. The integration of BIM and energy analysis is essential in designing and developing highly energy-efficient buildings [19,35]. Combining BIM and value engineering technologies optimizes the green building envelope in terms of energy savings and life cycle costs [36].…”

The use of BIM to achieve zero energy building

“…Жуковського, 64, 69063, Запоріжжя, Україна, тел. +38 (066) 196-28-28, e-mail: donenko@gmail.com, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5728-5081 3 Кафедра будівельного виробництва та управління проектами, Національний університет «Запорізька політехніка»; вул. Жуковського, 64, 69063, Запоріжжя, Україна, тел.+38 (095) 336-32-50, e-mail: e.l.fenenko@gmail.com, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4152-6135…”

Critical Review of Flywheel Energy Storage System

“…The severe environmental impact of fossil fuels, used in all aspects of our lives, is a serious threat, as is clear from the resulting health problems and climate change [1,2]. To reduce the severe problems caused by the different fossil fuels, scientists have proposed different solutions, such as waste heat recycling [3,4], developing efficient energy conversion systems that have low or no environmental impact [5][6][7], transitioning from fossil fuel resources to renewable energy resources [8][9][10], and, finally, CO 2 capture [11][12][13][14]. In the last decade, the renewable energy sources' capacity was exponentially increased, resulting in a critical need for energy conversion/storage systems that can effectively use/store such an increase in energy.…”