Green building assessment tool (GBAT) for integrated BIM-based design decisions

Ilhan, Bahriye; Yaman, Hakan

doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2016.05.001

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“…A survey applied by McGraw-Hill Construction for 2010 Green BIM Study [11] was conducted with a group of building industry professionals who use BIM tools to help achieve sustainability and building performance goals, and the provided results show that BIM is considered an essential tool, expected to be in extensive use in the near future for sustainable-aimed design. Larger use of green integrated design is also highlighted in other research as one of the key areas of potential growth for Green BIM [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Among the barriers to full integration, the most proeminent are the lack of functional tools and the complex structure of the existing ones [15], [16]. Thus, it is important to develop a supporting method which facilitates the sustainable project decisions provided by BIM software for an integrated BIM and environmental data model [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The approached tools by [17] were Autodesk Green Building Studio, Elodie, eToolLCD, Lesosai, LCADesign and Tally, however, new tools were also recently lauched as Green building assessment tool (GBAT) [5], IESVE Impact Compliant Suite and One Click LCA, for instance. The currently available tools still have many barriers to overcome in order to be practally applied by planners, designers and investors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A sustainable-integrated design process simplifies the certification process in terms of time and cost, since early stage interactions and decisionmaking are possible, providing improved outputs. As the advantages of BIM are spread among building design professionals, they will play a more significant role in environmental performance throughout whole building life cycle [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The challenge then, as identified by Brahme et al [3], is to develop new methods for application of detailed analysis tools even during the early stages of building design when many of the variables for the building's technical sub-systems are not yet specified, and to provide the designer with quantitative analyzes and predictions of the building's performance [3]- [5].…”

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Methodological Discussion of Insertion and Exportation of Lca Data Embedded in Bim Elements

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Fabrício

2017

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology can be used to quantify, in the design phase, the impacts of a product throughout its life cycle and to determine which building components have the highest potential impacts. However, such a method has often been avoided due to the need for detailed input data and the complexity of the available tools. For that reason, although LCA is increasingly present in the construction sector demands, professionals continuously pursue new ways to incorporate such methodology to the building design and construction processes, as simple and uncomplicated as possible. A promising possibility is the incorporation of building systems LCA data in the BIM software tools. Numerous limitations of BIM-based LCA have been identified over the years. For instance, the complexity of LCA software tools, particularly as regards the data input and interpretation of results, and the interoperability issues, all need to be overcome. Once BIM models are composed of smart objects, which represent construction elements with encapsulated intelligence, they are expected to be where LCA data could be applied. In this paper a conceptual and methodological discussion will be developed on the practical possibilities of inclusion and export of LCA data embedded in BIM elements, focusing on Autodesk Revit software and its features. Such a discussion will take place by exploiting technological possibilities of such software and evaluating the possibilities of development and modification of parametric elements and families, as well as the further export potential of such embedded LCA information. The main goal is the construction of a robust theoretical framework that will precede the future development of a methodological BIM-LCA integration tool by the exploitation of the features available in the existing software.

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confidence: 99%