How BIM Contributes to a Building’s Energy Efficiency throughout Its Whole Life Cycle: Systematic Mapping

Abstract

This paper presents a systematic mapping (SM) study with the aim to determine how Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodologies and technologies contribute to energy-related analyses over the course of the entire building life cycle. The method adopted in the study is based on a set of seven research questions. We used a mixed technique combining co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling in order to analyze the publications’ datasets for the period 2010–2020. The main advantage and novelty of this study are that the joint dataset from the Scopus and Web of Science databases was used to develop the keyword map. The main findings of this study indicate that many BIM-based applications can be used to analyze the building energy performance at all stages of the building life cycle. However, the applications of BIM in conjunction with other information technologies are limited and are still in the initial stage. In the future, the main improvements should be focused on process, model, system, tool, use and information modeling. The most promising long-term solution is an open BIM framework based on open standards, which allows the integration of BIM and energy simulation tools and satisfies specific data exchange requirements.

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“…The use of building information modeling (BIM) can help reduce facility energy consumption during O&M phase (GhaffarianHoseini et al, 2017) and improve quality of facility O&M (Cao et al, 2022). BIM could be used for energy monitoring, simulation, analysis and management to achieve optimal energy performance of facility (Vilutien_ e et al, 2021) and for facility maintenance, repair, retrofitting and renovation (Cao et al, 2022). Previous studies pointed out several BIM-related challenges such as high costs, a lack of interoperability between the systems (Cao et al, 2022), a lack of mature interfaces (GhaffarianHoseini et al, 2017) and a lack of integration of BIM into FM phase (Oti et al, 2016).…”

“…, 2022). BIM could be used for energy monitoring, simulation, analysis and management to achieve optimal energy performance of facility (Vilutienė et al. , 2021) and for facility maintenance, repair, retrofitting and renovation (Cao et al.…”

Systematic Literature Review of Open Infrastructure BIM

“…Ramji et al, in 2020, dealt with using BIM for evaluation of the energy performance of buildings in the early stages of a project, performing a data file format integration between BIM and BEM (building energy modeling) [154]. BEM is a thriving research topic, with great focus on energy efficiency evaluation, planning, and optimization [155][156][157][158][159]. For example, Bughio et al [160] investigated potential reductions in indoor temperatures by exploiting simulations run in building information models.…”