Semantic material name matching system for building energy analysis

Kim, Karam; Kim, Gunwoo; Yoo, Dong-Keun; Yu, Jungho

doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2012.11.011

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“…Kim et al (2011) suggested a BEA approach that used data mining to determine useful patterns for improving energy efficiency during the design phase. And Kim and Yu (2013a) proposed a material namematching system using ontology to automatically add the thermal properties of construction materials.…”

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A Process to Divide Curved Walls in Ifc-Bim Into Segmented Straight Walls for Building Energy Analysis

Kim

2015

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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The amount of energy that buildings consume is currently attracting significant interest throughout the world, and considerable attention is being devoted to the development of green buildings to reduce energy consumption; however, the current process being used to conduct building energy analysis has a significant shortcoming in that it cannot directly use building information modelling (BIM)-based representational data that includes a curved wall. Currently, the curved wall must be converted into segmented straight walls (SSWs) in the building model in order for the building energy analysis (BEA) program to be able to recognize and use the data. In this paper, we have proposed a segmentation process for curved walls in industry foundation classes (IFC)-based BIM for BEA. The proposed process consists of three sub-processes: 1) extracting data from the IFC model; 2) dividing the curved wall into several segmented straight walls; and 3) generating an INP file as a building description for DOE-2.2-based BEA. The proposed process will enable the engineers who are responsible for BEA to use a BIM-based model directly in the BEA program without having to do additional work. The proposed process can help ensure that the BEA results are accurate and reliable.

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A Process to Divide Curved Walls in Ifc-Bim Into Segmented Straight Walls for Building Energy Analysis

Kim

2015

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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“…In the case of design agencies concerns, BIM implementation should include, but not be limited to: a) 3D modeling [100] , coordination between numerous drawings to identify potential conflicts or defect within the model [101] ; b) design validation [102] ; c) quantity take-off and cost analysis [103] ; d) an effective communication environment based on BIM models [104,105] ; and e) performance analysis, including energy [106] and evacuation simulation [107] .…”

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Formulating project-level building information modeling evaluation framework from the perspectives of organizations: A review

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Ding

Rao

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Automation in Construction

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This study identifies Building Information Modeling (BIM) benefits in the presentations of previous project participants and specialties. Based on recent data, a framework for evaluating the project-level BIM benefits from the perspectives of different stakeholders involved in the project is proposed. In order to maximize the benefits for each user or stakeholder, the functions and methods for implementing BIM on construction projects are explained. The results show that the advantages of implementing BIM in construction projects can be effectively evaluated by the proposed framework. Results presented herein provide documentation to improve the understanding of BIM benefits to all construction industry stakeholders.

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“…Moreover, agents, which are capable of reasoning over semantic knowledge, can automatically expand their knowledgebase [19]. Some examples of successful utilization of ontology and semantic technology in BAS with regard to energy efficiency, HVAC systems and sensor-based building monitoring can be found in [3,4,5,6,7,8] We believe that combining these three technologies can lead to a more energy efficient BAS. In the next section, we describe a scenario in which a rigid control system is not capable of coping with its resulting uncertainties in a real-time and automated fashion and therefore business processes and automation processes have to be merged.…”

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Energy efficient automation model for office buildings based on ontology, agents and IEC 61499 function blocks

Mousavi

Yang

Pang

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)

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Execution of business processes is an important factor that distinguishes residential and office buildings based on their energy usage. Unlike residential buildings, in offices workflows determine how and when energy-consuming devices have to be utilized. Thus, energy efficient building automation systems for office buildings should take into account the dynamic and unpredictable nature of business processes. However, the existing systems lack this important feature. In this paper, a model for combining automation and business processes is proposed. The model is implemented using IEC 61499 Function Block architecture, multi-agent systems and ontology. The proposed method has been examined in a meeting room scheduling scenario, in which meeting scheduling and automated control of the meeting room equipment have been combined and the energy usage has been measured to evaluate the improvement in efficient use of energy using the proposed model.

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Semantic material name matching system for building energy analysis

Cited by 25 publications

References 4 publications

A Process to Divide Curved Walls in Ifc-Bim Into Segmented Straight Walls for Building Energy Analysis

A Process to Divide Curved Walls in Ifc-Bim Into Segmented Straight Walls for Building Energy Analysis

Formulating project-level building information modeling evaluation framework from the perspectives of organizations: A review

Energy efficient automation model for office buildings based on ontology, agents and IEC 61499 function blocks

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