Optimizing the evaluation of building envelope design for thermal performance using a BIM-based overall thermal transfer value calculation

Natephra, Worawan; Yabuki, Nobuyoshi; Fukuda, Tomohiro

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.03.032

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“…The building envelope is composed of walls, roofs, windows, shading devices and thermal insulation materials, which greatly affects the indoor environment quality in terms of daylight, the energy consumption of HVAC systems and thermal comfort [16]. Existing studies [17][18][19][20] have proved that the building envelope has an extremely important influence on thermal performance and is one of the critical factors in obtaining green building certifications. Bressch and Janssens [17] applied a standardized regression coefficient (SRC) to identify the factors that had the greatest impact on thermal comfort on the south side of a typical Belgian office building.…”

Section: Building Envelope Thermal Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Natephra et al [19] proposed a method (integrating time-stamped 3D thermal data in the BIM) to collect environmental and thermal data and to integrate them with BIM to be used for various applications. Furthermore, Natephra et al [20] presented the integration of BIM and visual scripting to automatically extract thermal properties from BIM to computing thermal transfer value.…”

Section: Building Envelope Thermal Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…BIM is able to capture project information and generate documents and the advent of BIM technology, particularly anecdotal evidence of its widespread use in green building projects, has led professionals and researchers to envision the integration of the BIM and green building certification processes. In particular, the application of BIM in envelope thermal performance measurement has attracted attention, such as project Helios [28], Integrated Environmental Solutions Virtual Environment (IES VE) Green Mark Navigator [29], ETTV Assessment through BIM and VPL [22] and a BIM-based OTTV Calculation [20].…”

Section: Bim For Envelope Thermal Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recently, Natephra et al [20] presented a BIM approach integrating with scripting to automatically extract thermal parameters from a database and provide an instant OTTV calculation.…”

Section: Bim For Envelope Thermal Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is well known that generating an envelope thermal performance calculation report is a cumbersome and time-consuming process for project stakeholders. The current manual calculation method is time-consuming, and human error can occur throughout the completion of the calculation process [20]. In addition, the current envelope thermal calculation method does not consider some of the contributions by non-conventional shading devices, shading of opaque construction, and shading from surrounding buildings [29].…”

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Envelope Thermal Performance Analysis Based on Building Information Model (BIM) Cloud Platform—Proposed Green Mark Collaboration Environment

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Building Information Modeling (BIM) and sustainable buildings are two future cornerstones of the Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. In Singapore’s context, the Green Mark (GM) scoring system is prevalently used to assess the sustainability index of green buildings. BIM provides the semantic and geometry information of buildings, which is proliferated as the technological and process backbone for the green building assessment. This research, through vast literature reviews, identified that the current procedure of achieving a Green Mark score is tedious and cumbersome, which hampers productivity, especially in the calculation of building envelope thermal performance. Furthermore, the project stakeholders work in silos, in a non-collaborative, manual and 2D-based environment for generating relevant documentation to achieve the requisite green mark score. To this end, a cloud-based BIM platform was developed, with the aim of encouraging project stakeholders to collaboratively generate the project’s green mark score digitally in accordance with the regulatory requirements. Through this research, the authors have validated the Envelope Thermal Transfer Value (ETTV) calculation, which is one of the prerequisite criteria to achieve a Green Mark score, through a case study using the developed cloud-based BIM platform. The results indicated that using the proposed platform enhances the productivity and accuracy as far as ETTV calculation is concerned. This study provides a basis for future research in implementing the proposed platform for other criteria under the Green Mark Scheme.

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Section: Building Envelope Thermal Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Building Envelope Thermal Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Bim For Envelope Thermal Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recently, Natephra et al [20] presented a BIM approach integrating with scripting to automatically extract thermal parameters from a database and provide an instant OTTV calculation.…”

Section: Bim For Envelope Thermal Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Thermal comfort and energy performance improvement by optimization of shading devices using improved Battle Royal algorithm

Pouramini

2023

Concurrency and Computation

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China's building energy consumption accounts for 27.5% of China's total energy demand. This amount is increasing because of the considerable increase in the rate of household equipment mostly in air-conditioning systems. In this study, the TRNSYS simulation tool and improved Battle Royal optimizer (IBRO) is coupled for energy optimization of the building based on the simulation to study the impact of the overhangs optimization. The thermal comfort enhancement is evaluated in three case studies of three different weather conditions in China. To validate the achieved results, a comparison of the optimum values with benchmark cases is performed with consideration of heating and cooling demands, and yearly discomfort percentage. According to the achievements, an improvement can be seen in the comfort level. Also, the cooling demand is decreased by 4.2% for Shanghai. K E Y W O R D Sadaptive model, thermal comfort, improved Battle Royal optimizer, simulation-based optimization, thermal comfort, TRNSYS INTRODUCTIONBuildings use more than 30% of the overall energy demand worldwide, with estimates for increases in this portion because of urbanization, changes in weather conditions, and further living comfort standards. 1 In China, the rate of urbanization has been increased from 37.7% to 55.0% from the year 2001 to 2014. 2 Generally, the building's energy consumption is defined by the behavior of occupants, size of the building, climate, interior environment, building performance, building envelope, and service systems of the building. 3 Designing energy-effective buildings is essential. For achieving energy-savings in buildings, energy-effective strategies can be performed. [4][5][6] The equipment rate in heating and cooling devices is multiplying, then, the consumption of energy for heating and cooling is increasing. [7][8][9][10][11][12] Application of outer shading devices can be an efficient policy to decrease the cooling demand because it can keep the building from overheating from the solar resource through fenestrations in hot weather conditions. 13 Different papers have studied the shading devices' impact on enhancing the thermal operation and the comfort level of occupants in the literature. For example, in Reference 14, the impact of shading devices on the occupants' thermal comfort in a cross-ventilated office case for altering interior airflow speeds in hot seasons has been studied. The results indicated that the element placed on the façade and geometry are two important factors that affect the performance of shading devices on the occupants' thermal comfort.In Reference 15, a BIM-based technique has been proposed to give an automatic evaluation of the envelopes OTTVs of an office building. In this paper, developed visual scripting and BIM are integrated to obtain physical and thermal properties to confirm the calculation of thermal transfer amount. 16 This system gives a useful decision support system for decision-makers 17 to choose a proper material of envelope to obtain an optimal OTTV to optimize the en...

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Dynamic thermal simulation based on building information modeling: A review

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Shirmohammadi

Kasaeian

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Intl J of Energy Research

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With the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution and extensive promotion of information communication tools, it is on the construction industry to reconsider the current linear design approach and adopt more integrated design approaches that encompass dynamic thermal simulation. Building information modeling (BIM), without a doubt, is a technology, which proposes an integrated practice for building design. Design team using BIM cooperatively work on each activity loop during the design procedure and present a three-dimensional (3D) design model with all data from various disciplines attached at the final stage. The inclusion of a data-rich 3D shape into the design procedure marks the dynamic thermal simulation as a simple, accessible, and, more importantly, decisive stage. This article aims to draw the role of BIM in facilitating the inclusion of dynamic thermal simulation in building design procedures. BIM in this article is introduced as an effective remedy for dealing with the linear nature of conventional building design that is the major impediment to the inclusion of dynamic thermal simulations in the design efforts. This article goes through the conventional method's deficiencies and challenges with the BIM-based method to portray each approach's advantages and disadvantages. Renowned BIM software, interoperable simulation tools, and their distinguishing characteristics are introduced in summary to give a better insight into the application of BIM for dynamic thermal simulation purposes. Additionally, a literature survey on applying the introduced tools is

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Optimizing the evaluation of building envelope design for thermal performance using a BIM-based overall thermal transfer value calculation

Cited by 84 publications

References 16 publications

Envelope Thermal Performance Analysis Based on Building Information Model (BIM) Cloud Platform—Proposed Green Mark Collaboration Environment

Envelope Thermal Performance Analysis Based on Building Information Model (BIM) Cloud Platform—Proposed Green Mark Collaboration Environment

Thermal comfort and energy performance improvement by optimization of shading devices using improved Battle Royal algorithm

Dynamic thermal simulation based on building information modeling: A review

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