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Sustainability assessment through Green BIM for environmental, social and economic efficiency

Sustainability assessment through Green BIM for environmental, social and economic efficiency
Sustainability assessment through Green BIM for environmental, social and economic efficiency

BIM is representing a shift in the traditional process of building delivery. Its adoption in US reached 71% in 2012 rising from 17% in 2007; moreover, Europe is going to adopt BIM for public contracting as promoted by the European Union Public Procurement Directive. Meanwhile, BIM is widely diffused in UK and Northern Europe, as it includes a more accurate documentation, less rework and shorter project timelines. The use of BIM to provide data for energy performance evaluation and sustainability assessment is defined Green BIM and pioneering design organizations are adopting this approach to enable integrated design, construction and maintenance towards Net Zero Energy buildings. Green BIM includes Building Energy Modelling dealing with project energy performance to identify options optimising building energy efficiency during the life cycle. By allowing revisions during the design phase, project teams can ensure that customers' green ambitions beyond regulation compliance can be realized, together with technical and economic requirements. Thus, BIM can provide information to support the calculation of a number of credit points to define goal levels of sustainability related to rating systems. The aim of the paper is to investigate the opportunity to include the "green dimension" in BIM considering the more diffused rating systems.

BEM, BIM, Green BIM, rating, sustainability
520-530
Maltese, Sebastiano
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Tagliabue, Lavinia C.
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Cecconi, Fulvio Re
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Pasini, Daniela
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Manfren, Massimiliano
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Ciribini, Angelo L.C.
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Maltese, Sebastiano
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Tagliabue, Lavinia C.
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Cecconi, Fulvio Re
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Pasini, Daniela
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Manfren, Massimiliano
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Ciribini, Angelo L.C.
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Maltese, Sebastiano, Tagliabue, Lavinia C., Cecconi, Fulvio Re, Pasini, Daniela, Manfren, Massimiliano and Ciribini, Angelo L.C. (2017) Sustainability assessment through Green BIM for environmental, social and economic efficiency. Procedia Engineering, 180, 520-530. (doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.04.211).

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Abstract

BIM is representing a shift in the traditional process of building delivery. Its adoption in US reached 71% in 2012 rising from 17% in 2007; moreover, Europe is going to adopt BIM for public contracting as promoted by the European Union Public Procurement Directive. Meanwhile, BIM is widely diffused in UK and Northern Europe, as it includes a more accurate documentation, less rework and shorter project timelines. The use of BIM to provide data for energy performance evaluation and sustainability assessment is defined Green BIM and pioneering design organizations are adopting this approach to enable integrated design, construction and maintenance towards Net Zero Energy buildings. Green BIM includes Building Energy Modelling dealing with project energy performance to identify options optimising building energy efficiency during the life cycle. By allowing revisions during the design phase, project teams can ensure that customers' green ambitions beyond regulation compliance can be realized, together with technical and economic requirements. Thus, BIM can provide information to support the calculation of a number of credit points to define goal levels of sustainability related to rating systems. The aim of the paper is to investigate the opportunity to include the "green dimension" in BIM considering the more diffused rating systems.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 23 May 2017
Published date: 2017
Keywords: BEM, BIM, Green BIM, rating, sustainability

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Local EPrints ID: 414001
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/414001
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ORCID for Massimiliano Manfren: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1438-970X

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Date deposited: 12 Sep 2017 16:31
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:29

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Author: Sebastiano Maltese
Author: Lavinia C. Tagliabue
Author: Fulvio Re Cecconi
Author: Daniela Pasini
Author: Angelo L.C. Ciribini

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