Integrating Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Sustainability to Greening Existing Building: Potentials in Malaysian Construction Industry

Abstract

Apropos to numerous environmental issues highlighted globally and locally, Malaysia has now moving forward towards new agenda of greening the cities. A positive movement trend of new green building in the country can be seen as number of projects going into green rating application are increasing yearly. Nevertheless, sustainability impact is considered as significantly small since newly developed green building represent small percentage as compared to the existing non-green building. Therefore, the idea of greening the existing building through refurbishment emerged in order to achieve wider sustainability objectives. Apart from that, supported with recent evolvement of technology and digitalization in construction industry, in lieu with governments’ strategies to adopt Industry 4.0, Building Information Modelling (BIM) has also been acknowledged and used broadly as a solution to integrate and facilitate management of information throughout building lifecycles. Considering these two areas; sustainability and BIM are continuously gaining momentum these days, this paper attempts to explore BIM’s potentials as an enabler to help greening the existing non-green building. Literature review is conducted focus on reviewing BIM and sustainability present status in Malaysian construction industry, also their relationship including examining potential areas where BIM may contribute to enhance the buildings’ sustainability performances. Based on the reviews, there is a potential of bridging the two areas considering both has becoming a national construction industry agenda since the government released CITP2016-2020. To further concur the ideas, literature reviews has also proven that the ability of BIM to facilitate various functions has enable it to support several sustainability analyses such as energy, carbon emission, lighting, water, materials and waste, building and site, and costing analysis.

Assessing cost and benefit attributes of Building Information Modelling (BIM) implementation in Malaysian public agency: PLS-SEM approach

“…Economic aspects of BIM benefits discussed direct and indirect cost savings in project such as reducing capital costs and operation costs for investors throughout asset whole lifecycle (Carvalho et al, 2019;Reizgevičius et al, 2018). For environmental aspects of BIM benefit, the factors include minimization of environmental impacts related to material waste, carbon footprint etc as part of the 'green building' concept (Reizgevičius et al, 2018;Zulkefli et al, 2020). On the other hand, benefits related to social aspects are usually achieved indirectly through improvements on project and building operation that could eventually upgrade other areas such as occupant's health and accessibility which in turn will produce healthy communities (Carvalho et al, 2019;Mohammed, 2022).…”

Determining Factors for Measuring the Benefits of Building Information Modelling (BIM)

“…The environmental aspects of BIM benefit include minimization of environmental impacts related to material waste, carbon footprint etc. as part of the 'green building' concept [5], [6]. On the other hand, benefits related to social aspects are usually achieved indirectly through improvements to the project and building operation which can ultimately improve other areas such as occupant health and accessibility, leading to healthy communities [4], [7].…”

BIM and Mechanical Engineering—A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis

“…Digitalization of BE based on metamodels, augmented reality, digital twins, Internet of Things and Computer Vision [60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76] Digitalization of BE in general means also digitalization of ME subsystems, consequently all ME components must be available in an interoperable digital form with integrated information.…”