Optimizing Energy Consumption in Building Designs Using Building Information Model (BIM)

Egwunatum, Samuel I.; Joseph-Akwara, Esther; Akaigwe, Richard

doi:10.1515/sjce-2016-0013

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“…Other studies are concentrating on using BIM capabilities to improve existing building energy modelling (BEM) practices [11], optimizing energy consumption in building design with BIM [12], and BIM sustainable indicators towards construction cost estimate preparation [13]. With most of the previous researchers discussing the potentials of using BIM towards more sustainable construction industry, therefore, this paper reviews the benefits and challenges associated with the practice.…”

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A Review on Green BIM Potentials in Enhancing the Construction Industry Practice

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The construction industry environment nowadays is becoming more complex with more issues to be resolved with the agreeable approaches amongst the team. Nevertheless, the Building Information Modelling (BIM) innovation is acknowledged to disentangle those prevalent issues towards delivering a better project performance. With the emergence of BIM technology, various concerns such as constant errors and reworks, team-miscommunication, construction waste, energy inefficiencies, and many more in the industry practices, could be refined. Specifically, BIM capabilities mainly facilitate the design and construction operations. Albeit the processes involved demand an early planning and profound decision-making, the BIM mechanism helps the project team to execute the proposed construction projects effectively. With regards to maintaining the sustainability in the industry, “Green BIM” term is introduced to describe the manipulation of BIM technology to be incorporated along with the sustainable design and construction techniques. Therefore, this paper reviews the potentials of “Green BIM” in improving the traditional practices of project stakeholders throughout the project life cycle, particularly focusing on the design and construction phases. It discusses the previous studies on “Green BIM”, “Green BIM” concepts, and “Green BIM” approaches concerning its benefits and challenges in enhancing the construction industry practices. Significantly, through the appropriate “Green BIM” resolution, the procedures initiated with the green settings and completed with the green requirements, could empower more sustainable construction industry

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“…d). Identification of energy-saving opportunities and economic evaluation of energy-saving strategies (Egwunatum et al, 2016).…”

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Applicability of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Sustainable Design of Commercial and Office Buildings. A Case Study from Tehran, Iran

Nemati¹,

Aminnejad²,

Lork³

2020

JSSP

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“…Automation in the engineering field is not at an infancy stage as it has been implemented by engineers since the beginning where computeraided modelling and simulation was at its beginning [2]. In line with it, global warming and its significant climate changes are endangering the human existence [9]. Currently, the trends in global energy usage have brought up serious questions over the difficulties with supplies, the depletion of energy sources, and severe environmental impacts.…”

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“…In regards to that, a lot of software vendors/manufacturers have invented energy simulation systems that can be utilized to evaluate the efficiency of a building virtually [12]. A rapidly developing technology that has been demonstrated and proven to be able to help to build energy performance analysis thus achieving a more energy efficient building is Building Information Modelling (BIM) [9]. BIM allows for all sorts of information to be gathered and embedded in one model, which include structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and lighting [12].…”

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Automation in Civil Engineering Design in Assessing Building Energy Efficiency

Khairulzaman

Usman²

2018

IJET

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Automation in Civil Engineering design is no longer unfamiliar anymore in the construction industry. It brings great efficiency gains and has reduced many of the complicated aspects of design. Automation has been developing since over the last four decades where advancement of computer hardware and in line with software developments has enabled various sort of design to be computerized. The design process is now more fast and accurate, and the entire process has been outstandingly improved by the available technology. However, the problems related to computerized design, started from the possibilities for unrecognized or unanticipated consequences as the design becomes more complicated. In line with it is the global warming issue that has been threatening the human being. Therefore, this paper reviews the design automation and its application in civil engineering design emphasizing in assessing the energy efficiency of buildings, which includes background information, its application, advantages, and challenges and also suggestions to further improve the automation in civil engineering design by artificial intelligence (AI). It was discovered that since over the past few years, BIM implementation in Civil Engineering design has started to be adopted massively in construction industry due to its tremendous advantages. In this paper, a new flow process in design automation in assessing building sustainability has been proposed by implementing AI BIM which is linked with MyCREST, a green rating tool in Malaysia in order to assist designers to conceptually design for a more energy efficient building.

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Optimizing Energy Consumption in Building Designs Using Building Information Model (BIM)

Abstract: Given the ability of a Building Information Model (BIM) to serve as a multi-disciplinary data repository, this paper seeks to ex

Cited by 22 publications

References 26 publications

A Review on Green BIM Potentials in Enhancing the Construction Industry Practice

A Review on Green BIM Potentials in Enhancing the Construction Industry Practice

Applicability of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Sustainable Design of Commercial and Office Buildings. A Case Study from Tehran, Iran

Automation in Civil Engineering Design in Assessing Building Energy Efficiency

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