Consistent BIM-led LCA during the entire building design process

Building Information Management (BIM): From Planning Towards Work Process Tool?

The need for better integration and higher coordination in order to deliver the envisaged building requirements should avoid problematic situations in which the various professionals are not well informed about the building plans. This situation calls for more cooperative and interactive work practices e.g. at the interface between planning and production. Beside organisational gaps there are a...

Building Information Modeling (bim)-based Design of Energy Efficient Buildings

With the increased awareness of energy consumption as well as the environmental impact of building operations, architects, designers and planners are required to place more consideration on sustainability and energy performance of the building. To ensure most of those considerations are reflected in the building performance, critical design decisions should be made by key stakeholders early dur...

Building Ontology to Implement the Bim(building Information Modeling) Focused on Pre-design Stage

Pre-planning stage is a most important stage to determine the success of the project throughout the construction lifecycle. Therefore, all information generated from the pre-planning stage must be processed and retained in the format which all the project participants can share. Furthermore, using object-oriented attributes and meta-data in BIM (Building Information Modeling) for easy control o...

Integration of LCA and BIM for Sustainable Construction

The construction industry is turning towards sustainability. It is a well-known fact that sustainability is based on a balance between environmental, social and economic aspects. In order to achieve sustainability efficiently, these three criteria should be taken into account in the initial project phases, since that is when a project can be influenced most effectively. Thus the aim must be to ...

The Computer and the Building Design Process