Recommendations for Developing a BIM for the Purpose of LCA in Green Building Certifications

Veselka, Jakub; Nehasilová, Marie; Dvořáková, Karolína; Ryklová, Pavla; Volf, Martin; Růžička, Jiří; Lupíšek, Antonín

doi:10.3390/su12156151

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“…Due to the increasing interest in providing a more sustainable built environment, efforts in including building sustainability assessment into BIM environments have been emerging in the last years too [48][49][50]. In particular, Jalaei and Jrade [50] have proposed a customized plug-in for Revit to facilitate the assessment of LEED indicators within a BIM environment.…”

Section: Bim and Performance Assessmentmentioning

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Assessing the Transformability of Public Housing through BIM

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Public residential buildings make a large portion of the European existing stock and they quite often require deep renovation interventions. A methodology for setting priorities and targeting regeneration investments should be defined relying on the increasing use of building information modelling (BIM) tools even for managing existing buildings. The aim of this paper is to integrate the evaluation process into BIM Revit software developing a specific plug-in, a Decision support system (DSS) that will help to identify the most appropriate flats to be transformed. It is based on measuring three indicators: Usability, Fragmentation, and Constructive Modifiability. Through their weighted average it is possible to obtain a final transformability score. The proposed approach has been tested on a case study chosen within the 1st P.E.E.P. (1st public plan for council and affordable housing) that has been approved in Rome in 1964. The results demonstrate that the transformability of apartments is related mainly to the Constructive Modifiability indicator and buildings with reinforced concrete frames show higher scores. A widespread application of such a methodology on large real estate portfolio may lead stakeholders involved in housing management investments in clear choices related to maintenance of buildings.

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Assessing the Transformability of Public Housing through BIM

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“…There is also a direct integration into the IES-VE software [ 110 ]. In this study and many other studies (e.g., [ 112 , 113 , 114 , 115 , 116 , 117 ]), One Click LCA was used because of the abovementioned features, ease of use, and fast and accurate results.…”

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Comparative Study on Life-Cycle Assessment and Carbon Footprint of Hybrid, Concrete and Timber Apartment Buildings in Finland

Rinne

Ilgın

Karjalainen

2022

IJERPH

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To date, in the literature, there has been no study on the comparison of hybrid (timber and concrete) buildings with counterparts made of timber and concrete as the most common construction materials, in terms of the life cycle assessment (LCA) and the carbon footprint. This paper examines the environmental impacts of a five-story hybrid apartment building compared to timber and reinforced concrete counterparts in whole-building life-cycle assessment using the software tool, One Click LCA, for the estimation of environmental impacts from building materials of assemblies, construction, and building end-of-life treatment of 50 years in Finland. Following EN 15978, stages of product and construction (A1–A5), use (B1–B6), end-of-life (C1–C4), and beyond the building life cycle (D) were assessed. The main findings highlighted are as following: (1) for A1–A3, the timber apartment had the smallest carbon footprint (28% less than the hybrid apartment); (2) in A4, the timber apartment had a much smaller carbon footprint (55% less than the hybrid apartment), and the hybrid apartment had a smaller carbon footprint (19%) than the concrete apartment; (3) for B1–B5, the carbon footprint of the timber apartment was larger (>20%); (4) in C1–C4, the carbon footprint of the concrete apartment had the lowest emissions (35,061 kg CO2-e), and the timber apartment had the highest (44,627 kg CO2-e), but in D, timber became the most advantageous material; (5) the share of life-cycle emissions from building services was very significant. Considering the environmental performance of hybrid construction as well as its other advantages over timber, wood-based hybrid solutions can lead to more rational use of wood, encouraging the development of more efficient buildings. In the long run, this will result in a higher proportion of wood in buildings, which will be beneficial for living conditions, the environment, and the society in general.

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“…Analysis of material incorporated in a construction accounts for the life-cycle emissions of construction materials. Digital building models are able to contribute the required information for carrying out these analysis and there are methods for efficient retrieval of bulky data, even for buildings made of complicated materials or large-scale construction, as shown by Veselka et al (2020) and Teng and Pan (2018). The available methods to calculate these values range from fully automated workflows to manual or semi-automatic determination from Bill of Quantity data exported from CAD software with standard functionality.…”

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A Testbed for Applying Operationalized Graph Grammars to Sustainability Analysis in Integrated Bim-Gis Scenarios

Tauscher

Wong

2022

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. Environmental aspects are becoming increasingly important for construction projects and thus holistic analysis spanning different scopes such as the building and city context. With graph-based data integration we propose a general method to support cross-domain analysis tasks. In this paper, we present a testbed consisting of a data set with three university buildings in IFC and CityGML format and two use cases for sustainability analysis spanning the building and city scope. We discuss the details of the data set and the two use cases - solar irradiation and material impact analysis - and show how graph-based data integration will be carried out in the testbed.

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Recommendations for Developing a BIM for the Purpose of LCA in Green Building Certifications

Cited by 34 publications

References 29 publications

Assessing the Transformability of Public Housing through BIM

Assessing the Transformability of Public Housing through BIM

Comparative Study on Life-Cycle Assessment and Carbon Footprint of Hybrid, Concrete and Timber Apartment Buildings in Finland

A Testbed for Applying Operationalized Graph Grammars to Sustainability Analysis in Integrated Bim-Gis Scenarios

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