Building Information Modeling (BIM) for green buildings: A critical review and future directions

Lu, Yujie; Wu, Zhilei; Chang, Ruidong; Li, Yongkui

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“…Designers involved in the development of projects based on international green building standards face additional challenges, primarily the need for additional design time, uncertainty regarding special equipment and materials, inclusion of green requirements in the contractual specifications, and planning green activities within the general master plan [1,8,29]. In this scenario, the standardization of procedures through green building certification is appropriate [5,30]. This way, reference standards, such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design [31], or the British Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method [32], have begun to be implemented as an international benchmark for the definition of common sustainable quality for buildings.…”

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“…This way, reference standards, such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design [31], or the British Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method [32], have begun to be implemented as an international benchmark for the definition of common sustainable quality for buildings. LEED and BREEAM are the most used reference standards for green building worldwide [5,30] developed on the basis of the Anglo-American scenario. Furthermore, different methodologies and tools, such as life-cycle assessment, resource planning, green building reference standards, building information modeling, and others have been implemented in order to improve building sustainability [7,8,33], and it is important to coordinate such new tasks through appropriate project management processes [13][14][15][16][17].Furthermore, case studies, interviews, standards, and data collection used for the majority of the accessed research articles related to project management and green building management are also mainly focused on the Anglo-American construction process [8,10,24,26].…”

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Optimization of Green Building Design Processes: Case Studies within the European Union

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Green buildings have recently become a key aspect of the construction field and bring along a renovation of the whole industry chain. Such changes introduce new challenges for all subjects involved, and designers are also affected by such issues, especially for the development of projects based on international green building standards. Within this scope, project management plays a key role in the optimization of the design phase. This research analyzes the design process of international projects from the project management perspective through a multiple case study approach, considering the sustainability-related tasks that negatively affect the project design development under two types of contractual approaches: Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build. It aims to identify whether the Design-Build or Design-Bid-Build process is the best solution for developing green building projects. Two case studies in Italy and two case studies in Spain are analyzed, and the effects of the project management issues are evaluated under three different points of view: Time, cost, and level of sustainability of the building. A poorly planned process for the achievement of the various green building features of the project can impact the project schedule and the budget, whereas, a poorly managed project could also negatively impact its green building features. Finally, this research also highlights the positive relationship between process integration and green building design development.Sustainability 2020, 12, 2276 2 of 16 of necessary inputs and integrate them to meet pre-defined objectives [18]. During the last years, several research studies have analyzed project management processes to optimize green building projects focusing on various aspects, such as leadership factors [19,20], building information modelling implementation [12,21], lean construction [13,14], economic value [22], schedule performance [23], procurement approaches [24], rating systems [3], best practices [11], project-based organizations [25], processes [1], design teams [26], and design development [27,28].The management of the design phase is especially critical within the facility lifecycle, as any later changes will produce cost overruns and delays [12,29]. Designers involved in the development of projects based on international green building standards face additional challenges, primarily the need for additional design time, uncertainty regarding special equipment and materials, inclusion of green requirements in the contractual specifications, and planning green activities within the general master plan [1,8,29]. In this scenario, the standardization of procedures through green building certification is appropriate [5,30]. This way, reference standards, such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design [31], or the British Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method [32], have begun to be implemented as an international benchmark for the definition of common sustainable quality for buildings. LEED and BREEAM are the most used reference st...

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“…The IFC interchange format for the BIM model is approached by several studies [47,48] to integrate data relating to sustainable development but experiences difficulties due to generated file errors during export and import [49]. In this regard, several papers showed the weak interoperability, the lack of industry standards holistically covering the various application areas of BIM for sustainable buildings, the lack of methods and low accuracy of BIM-based prediction models [50]. The methodology proposed in our study will propose an extension of the BIM standards.…”

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A BIM-Based Framework and Databank for Reusing Load-Bearing Structural Elements

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In a context of intense environmental pressure where the construction sector has the greatest impact on several indicators, the reuse of load-bearing elements is the most promising by avoiding the production of waste, preserving natural resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by decreasing embodied energy. This study proposes a methodology based on a chain of tools to enable structural engineers to anticipate future reuse. This methodology describes the design of reversible assemblies, the addition of complementary information in the building information modeling (BIM), reinforced traceability, and the development of a material bank. At the same time, controlling the environmental impacts of reuse is planned by carrying out a life cycle assessment (LCA) at all stages of the project. Two scenarios for reuse design are applied with the toolchain proposed. A. "design from a stock" scenario, which leads to 100% of elements being reused, using only elements from stock. B. "design with a stock" scenario, which seeks to integrate as many reused elements available in the stock as possible. The case study of a high-rise building deconstructed to rebuild a medium-rise building demonstrated that the developed toolchain allowed the inclusion of all reuse elements in a new structural calculation model. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3147 2 of 24 the largest exploiters of natural resources [8], accounting for between 40% of the total raw materials consumption [9] and 50% [10].This growing development has repercussions on the emission of GHGs, among other indicators. In France, the construction and building industry is the leading emitter of GHGs [11], i.e., 33% of total GHGs. Several studies confirm this number worldwide [6,12,13]. Kumar Dixit et al. [8] define the embodied energy (EE) and embodied carbon (EC). EE during the construction phase is the amount of energy used for the extraction of raw materials, the production and transport of building components as well as the building construction and end-of-life (EOL). Moreover, EC refers to the associated GHG emissions [3]; the operating energy during the operation phase as energy consumption and associated operational carbon emissions during the use phase of buildings (heating, cooling, etc.). The average value of EE is 50% of the total primary energy demand [14]. The share of operational energy seems to decrease recently (even disappearing in passive or zero energy buildings) with technical progress and, therefore, the share of EE increases [15].Another impact of the construction sector is due to waste generation [5,16]. Most of the literature focuses on waste management, which shows a great interest in reducing the construction and demolition waste (CDW) generated by the construction sector as it represents around 40% of the waste produced [17]. Cai et al. [18] and Lismont et al. [19] explained that in Europe, about 25-30% of the waste result from the building sector amounting to 870 million tons annually and Brütting et al. [3] estimated this share at more than a third ...

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“…Further improvement, therefore, in algorithms and electronics components is necessary. Engineers can also combine the proposed system with Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools for a more systematic built environment design [57,58].…”

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An NNwC MPPT-Based Energy Supply Solution for Sensor Nodes in Buildings and Its Feasibility Study

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Sensors for data collecting are vital in the development of IoT and intelligent systems. High power consuming current and voltage monitors are indispensable in conducting maximum power point tracking (MPPT) in traditional PV energy wireless sensor nodes. This paper presents a sensor node system based on Neural Network MPPT with cloud method (NNwC) which utilizes information sharing process that is specific to sensor networks. NNwC uses a few sample sensor nodes to collect environmental parameter data such as light intensity (L) and temperature (T) to build the MPPT regression model by Neural Network. Then all other functional sensor nodes implement the model with their environmental parametervalues to conduct MPPT. As a result, the new sensor node system reduces energy consumption as well as the size and cost of the harvester. Then, this paper provides a SPICE simulation to estimate the percentage of power consumption reduced in the new sensor node system and also estimates the percentage of loss in neural network MPPT power generation compared with the perfect MPPT. Finally, the study compares the economic and environmental performance of the proposed system and the traditional ones through a case in a real building situation.Energies 2019, 12, 101 2 of 20 of pervasive and massive. Another solution employs the self-energized PV wireless sensor nodes [1,2] for power generation from solar energy. These systems commonly use batteries or supercapacitors for energy storage to maintain the continuous operation of sensor nodes. However, due to the limited PV conversion efficiency, this design requires large-size PV panels to generate enough energy for sensor nodes. These large-size sensor nodes will not only alter original environmental factors but also restrict their distribution range, and then, reduce the reliability of data collected by the sensors.Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms, a technique for increasing the output of the solar panel in a given size, is a promising solution to the energy storage problem in sensor node systems. However, MPPT requires voltage and current monitors to acquire the real-time power output of the harvester. Sensor node is a kind of low energy consumption application. In order to acquire more precise voltage and current parameters, the monitor components insulated with original output circuit should be adopted because they can obtain the voltage and current data without affecting the original values. The Hall Effect-Based Current/Voltage Monitors such as CSM series and VSM series are suitable for high accuracy current and voltage data collecting. However, the monitors, especially current monitors, not only have a high initial cost [3] but also require relatively large power support according to the load [4]. As the result, these sensors are commonly designed with space-consuming solar panels to avoid the interruption of sensors. To address such problem, there is a strong demand for a new wireless solar energy harvester for sensor node network systems with a higher conversi...

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Building Information Modeling (BIM) for green buildings: A critical review and future directions

Cited by 440 publications

References 85 publications

Optimization of Green Building Design Processes: Case Studies within the European Union

Optimization of Green Building Design Processes: Case Studies within the European Union

A BIM-Based Framework and Databank for Reusing Load-Bearing Structural Elements

An NNwC MPPT-Based Energy Supply Solution for Sensor Nodes in Buildings and Its Feasibility Study

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