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BIM-Based Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Buildings, Volume II

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 10200

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Prof. Dr. Antonio Garcia-Martinez

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Instituto Universitario de Arquitectura y Ciencias de la Construcción, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: LCA BIM-based method; life cycle sustainability assessment of building and urban systems
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Dear Colleagues,

Following the success of the Special Issue of Sustainability on “BIM-Based Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Buildings”, we are delighted to open a new Special Issue entitled “BIM-Based Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Buildings, Volume II”.

The activity carried out by the construction sector produces huge environmental, social and economic consequences at local, regional and global levels. In order to contribute to the optimization of the impacts of this essential activity, numerous current investigations try to analyze and evaluate building and construction alternatives, using different methodological approaches. Many of these research projects are based on the use of the life cycle sustainability assessment framework, which has turned out to be a set of useful methodologies that are effective for analysis and evaluation. However, the application of these tools and procedures generally consumes a large amount of time, energy and resources when applied to construction and building systems, mainly due to the qualitative and quantitative complexity of the building phenomenon. Fortunately, in recent years, the use of building information modeling (BIM) platforms has proven to be an innovative, useful, and effective aid to the development of building assessments, especially in the process of calculating inventories, obtaining and visualizing results and, more recently, optimizing systems from the life cycle perspective. In order to present the current approaches and trends in this field and to show their practical applications, this Special Issue will compile a selection of research projects that use BIM platforms as a methodological basis and are carried out in the context of the environmental, economic and social assessment of construction, building and urban systems.

Prof. Dr. Antonio Garcia-Martinez
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Keywords

  • building information modeling (BIM)
  • environmental impact assessment
  • life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA)
  • life cycle assessment (LCA)
  • life cycle cost (LCC)
  • social life cycle assessment (S-LCA)
  • geographical information system (GIS)
  • embodied and operational environmental impacts
  • integration and visualization
  • BIM–LCA integration tools
  • sustainable building

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Energy Consumption of Retrofitting Existing Public Buildings in Malaysia under BIM Approach: Pilot Study
by Nawal Abdunasseer Hmidah, Nuzul Azam Bin Haron, Aidi Alias Hizami, Teik Hua Law and Abubaker Basheer Abdalwhab Altohami
Sustainability 2023, 15(13), 10293; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151310293 - 29 Jun 2023
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Building information modeling (BIM) platforms to enhance design and construction processes have been rising recently, with BIM-based tools such as Autodesk Revit’s Architecture. The importance of BIM can be mainly seen in reducing energy consumption by at least 30%, leading to a huge [...] Read more.
Building information modeling (BIM) platforms to enhance design and construction processes have been rising recently, with BIM-based tools such as Autodesk Revit’s Architecture. The importance of BIM can be mainly seen in reducing energy consumption by at least 30%, leading to a huge cut in carbon dioxide, and saving the environment. BIM helps engineers and contractors to use less material for better benefits for stakeholders, including organizations, governmental offices, and businesses. This study investigates the reliability and validity of a constructed questionnaire to pre-determine the applications relevant to a questionnaire to be used in a large-scale study. The literature has highlighted the connection between BIM and energy-driven retrofits. However, the application of BIM to the retrofitting of existing structures confronts obstacles, which may be attributable to the multidisciplinary character of information sharing, the timeliness of communication, and the large number of technology components required to provide an optimal exchange. A pilot study was conducted, identifying the sample size of 30 random respondents out of 167 samples. SPSS was used for estimating the percentages of the demographic attributes for the respondents, the face validity, internal-consistency validity, the validation of all contracts, and Pearson’s correlation. The results show that engineers constitute 46%, project managers (20%), contractors (17%), and the rest (approximately 17%) are divided among other professionals. The validity of internal consistency ranges from 0.791 to 0.912, which reflects perfect consistency. The internal consistency of each part was recorded at 0.942 (energy), 0.957 (strategies), and 0.979 (framework). The validation for the energy part ranges from 0.610 to 0.912; for strategies (0.451 to 0.884,) and for the framework (0.681 to 0.884). Pearson’s correlation for all 17 questions showed a minimum value of 0.464, while the maximum value was 0.890. The results show that all questionnaire elements were successfully validated with a Cronbach alpha factor mainly higher than 0.6—the threshold accepted by most researchers. Hence, the work on the broader scale of testing and analysis could proceed. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue BIM-Based Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Buildings, Volume II)
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A BIM–LCA Approach for the Whole Design Process of Green Buildings in the Chinese Context
by Qiyuan Li, Wei Yang, Niklaus Kohler, Lu Yang, Jie Li, Zhen Sun, Hanze Yu, Lu Liu and Jun Ren
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3629; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043629 - 16 Feb 2023
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The integrated description of the building geometry and the element attributes of the building information model (BIM) can reduce the effort needed to acquire data for life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) at each design stage while supporting their potential [...] Read more.
The integrated description of the building geometry and the element attributes of the building information model (BIM) can reduce the effort needed to acquire data for life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) at each design stage while supporting their potential for analyzing life cycle performances and feeding back to the design process. To support this, several methods and tools have been proposed that aim to obtain the life cycle performances of buildings following the level of model fidelity with the life cycle inventory (LCI) database at different scales. However, inconsistencies in decision-making caused by regional differences in LCA/LCC data sources, benchmarks, and building standards cannot be ignored. In this study, a scalable LCA/LCC method integrated with the BIM platform is proposed for the whole green building design process in the Chinese context, and it is implemented with a developed tool based on Revit. A national-/regional-specified database of building elements and materials is established. Referring to China’s carbon-neutral target and relevant standards for green buildings, the baseline values are deduced, and a reference building is defined accordingly to facilitate the evaluation and improvement of the design scheme. According to the Assessment Standard for Green Building (GB50378-2019) and the survey of architectural design practices in China, the key parameters at different design stages are defined. The method and tool are demonstrated using the case study of a school building, analyzing its life cycle carbon emissions and life cycle costs throughout the design process. The results show that the proposed method can facilitate the improvement of the scheme at different design stages and that it can cope with different data accuracies and different LODs in the building information model in the Chinese green building design process. Lastly, the uncertainties raised by the data quality and time-associated factors are discussed. Full article
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Utilization of an Automatic Tool for Building Material Selection by Integrating Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in the Early Design Stages in BIM
by Bernardette Soust-Verdaguer, José Antonio Gutiérrez Moreno and Carmen Llatas
Sustainability 2023, 15(3), 2274; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032274 - 26 Jan 2023
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Recent international scientific studies have described the current situation regarding CO2 emissions and have provided evidence of its catastrophic short- and medium-term consequences. The implementation of solutions of a more sustainable nature to reduce and mitigate this situation is becoming increasingly urgent. [...] Read more.
Recent international scientific studies have described the current situation regarding CO2 emissions and have provided evidence of its catastrophic short- and medium-term consequences. The implementation of solutions of a more sustainable nature to reduce and mitigate this situation is becoming increasingly urgent. To this end, the integration of multi-dimension and life cycle assessment into the design process of buildings can help and support decision making. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) is one of the scientific community’s most widely recognized methodologies for this purpose, combining the evaluation of the social, economic, and social dimensions (Triple Bottom Line). One of the main obstacles to implementing this methodology lies in the difficulties in automatically comparing alternative design options for the selection of different materials. To overcome this limitation, the authors developed the BIM3LCA (Building Information Modelling Three Life Cycle Assessment) tool conceived to guide the decision-making process during the early design steps. This study introduces a Building Information Modelling (BIM) plug-in development and validates its application in a case study to support the multi-criteria building material selection based on the LCSA implementation at the early design stage. Three building material alternatives for the structural system of a multi-family residential building are employed to validate this plug-in. The results show the viability of using this tool during the early design stages and demonstrates the consistency of the results regarding the use of the BIM model to conduct the LCSA. The study discusses the benefits and limitations of the BIM3LCA tool. This research contributes towards the integration of multi-dimension real-time assessment in the building design process by using semantically rich BIM models. Full article
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