BIM-Based Green Hospital Building Performance Pre-Evaluation: A Case Study

Abstract

With ecological problems and energy crises intensifying today, greening is essential to sustainable development. Compared with other types of buildings, hospital buildings account for a relatively larger proportion of building energy consumption. In order to realize the rapid cycle optimization of a green hospital project in the design stage and improve the green grade of the building, a pre-evaluation Building Information Model (BIM) of green hospital building performance was established in this study. Firstly, the literature review and expert consultation established the building performance pre-evaluation index system for green hospitals. Then, BIM technology is taken to extract data needed for building a performance pre-evaluation system, and the Cloud Model and the Matter–Element Extension Theory are used to build models. The final green grade calculation is realized in MATLAB. Finally, the Maluan Bay Hospital is taken as an example to test the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed model. The results show that the green hospital building performance pre-evaluation model has advantages of simulation, cyclic optimization and fuzzy quantification, which can effectively guide the design and construction of a green hospital.

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“…Zhan et al. take BIM to extract data needed for building a performance pre-evaluation system, and the cloud model and the matter–element extension theory are used to build models; the final green grade calculation is realized in MATLAB (Zhan et al. , 2022).…”

“…According to the way in their model, computer aided design (CAD) and BIM are two basic manipulation tools for turning 2D drawings into 3D models, but it will take lots of time and it is hard to ignore is component and information will loss in the transition of Autodesk Revit to Glondon GTJ 2018 (Mao et al, 2019). Zhan et al take BIM to extract data needed for building a performance pre-evaluation system, and the cloud model and the matter-element extension theory are used to build models; the final green grade calculation is realized in MATLAB (Zhan et al, 2022). Similar to Lu's research, interoperability in BIM is a key aspect (Soust-Verdaguer et al, 2017), and the compatibility between different BIM software has not been completely solved (Gan et al, 2018).…”

“…As an important building type, hospital building is not only difficult to design, has long operation cycles and high energy consumption (Zaza et al, 2022), but also the number of daily clients and staffs is higher than that of villas, residences and office buildings because hospital building serves the population of the whole city (Lu et al, 2019). In America, healthcare's total floor space accounts for 4% of commercial buildings but consumes nearly 6% of energy sources (Taseli and Kilkis, 2016); the energy consumption of the unit building area of hospital building can reach up to 2-3 times than that of other public buildings (Zhan et al, 2022). Ma et al used eQUEST software to investigate the characteristics of public buildings energy consumption in China; the results indicate that the average comprehensive energy consumption per unit area of hospital building is the highest among three typical public buildings which accounts for 194.64 kWh/(m 2 •a) (Ma et al, 2017).…”

“…, 2019). In America, healthcare’s total floor space accounts for 4% of commercial buildings but consumes nearly 6% of energy sources (Taseli and Kilkis, 2016); the energy consumption of the unit building area of hospital building can reach up to 2–3 times than that of other public buildings (Zhan et al. , 2022).…”

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“…On the construction design side, the hospital must have green areas, strategic locations, access to public facilities, public transportation facilities and balanced landscaping areas. Efforts are also being made to create a comfortable microclimate, provide bicycle parking areas, manage stormwater runoff and reduce the risk of flooding around hospitals (Zhan et al , 2022). In terms of operations, hospitals must install separate electricity meters for electrical load subsystems, calculate energy efficiency, use natural lighting and good ventilation and measure CO 2 emissions to mitigate the impact of climate change.…”