scholarly journals BIM-Enabled Virtual Reality (VR) for Sustainability Life Cycle and Cost Assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Aliakbar Kamari ◽  
Ashwin Paari ◽  
Henrik Øien Torvund
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Construction Engineering ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Design Options ◽  
The Impact

Virtual Reality (VR) is receiving ever-increasing attention and is utilized by many construction companies in their current practices. This paper aims at a critical investigation of the impact of VR technology on how sustainability and cost are understood and perceived by the users in building design projects, which could lead to improving and supporting the actual building design processes. The research study focused on evaluating design alternatives using Building Information Modeling (BIM)-enabled VR technology integrated with cost and sustainability life cycle assessment (LCA) software. In doing so, the paper begins with reviewing the relevant literature in the mentioned areas. Thereafter, it adopts an experimental-qualitative-quantitative method to test the research hypothesis and analyze the effects of 360-degree VR on the users (66 participants), while distinguishing between users who have a relevant background in building/construction engineering (i.e., architect engineers and civil engineers), and those who have not (i.e., owners and clients). It is observed that despite their background, the user participants positively embrace the ideas and aspirations of sustainability, and that there is some evidence of respondents preferring the economy over sustainability. Likewise, the participants are not making an effort to measure the emissions of their design options rather than focus on the building’s economic aspects.

Assessing design buildability through virtual reality from the perspective of construction students

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Amila Sajeevan Samarasinghe ◽  
Imelda Saran Piri
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Building Information ◽  
2D Drawing ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of visual models on the ability of construction students to assess design buildability.Design/methodology/approachThe study engaged 45 construction students from one selected tertiary education institute in New Zealand. The data collection process involved meeting the students face-to-face and demonstrating the VR model to them, after which the students completed an online questionnaire and assessed design buildability using both 2D drawing and virtual reality (VR) models. To make this assessment, the participants considered a residential earth building modelled to promote sustainable building features. The assessment process required the participants to evaluate the design buildability of the same building design using a 2D drawing and a 3D VR model.FindingsThe study found that VR models have significant advantages for assessing design buildability. Students measured 16.80% higher average buildability with the 3D VR model compared to the 2D drawing. The participants in the evaluation felt that the visual model significantly improved the comprehensibility of complex designs, which helped identify and manage design buildability (overall, 83% of participants strongly supported this).Originality/valueThe paper showed construction digitisation such as VR, augmented reality and building information modelling is highly cooperative as it can easily be made available for online learning. Thus, the findings support construction educators use online-based VR learning to promote efficient teaching of design buildability to students.

GREEN BUILDING AND BIODIVERSITY: FACILITATING BIRD FRIENDLY DESIGN WITH BUILDING INFORMATION MODELS

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Kensek ◽  
Ye Ding ◽  
Travis Longcore
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Visual Programming ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
Information Models ◽  
Building Information ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Bird Collisions

Green buildings should respect nature and endeavor to mitigate harmful effects to the environment and occupants. This is often interpreted as creating sustainable sites, consuming less energy and water, reusing materials, and providing excellent indoor environmental quality. Environmentally friendly buildings should also consider literally the impact that they have on birds, millions of them. A major factor in bird collisions with buildings is the choice of building materials. These choices are usually made by the architect who may not be aware of the issue or may be looking for guidance from certification programs such as LEED. As a proof of concept for an educational tool, we developed a software-assisted approach to characterize whether a proposed building design would earn a point for the LEED Pilot Credit 55: Avoiding Bird Collisions. Using the visual programming language Dynamo with the common building information modeling software Revit, we automated the assessment of designs. The approach depends on parameters that incorporate assessments of bird threat for façade materials, analyzes building geometry relative to materials, and processes user input on building operation to produce the assessment.

scholarly journals Teaching Building Design and Construction Engineering. Are we ready for the paradigm shift?

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Forgues ◽  
Sheryl Staub-French ◽  
Leila M. Farah
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Building Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Practice Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Programs ◽  
The Impact

Drastic changes are occurring in the construction industry. Building Information Modeling (BIM) processes and technologies, and new Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approaches are transforming the way buildings are planned, designed, built and operated. With the needs for new skills to cope with these accelerating changes, architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) associations in the United States are working with universities to reengineer teaching programs, integrating architecture training within an engineering and construction curriculum. Leading universities are already developing new programs, such as BIM studio courses, and promoting new ways to teach practice knowledge within design laboratories.These changes are also starting to occur in the Canadian industry. Some large governmental bodies are starting to request that their projects are designed and built using BIM. Canadian universities must respond to these changing requirements to prepare future architects, engineers, and construction managers for these new challenges and emerging industry needs. This paper provides examples for how to bridge this gap by bringing practice knowledge and research to the classroom. First, it synthesizes the impact of BIM and IPD on engineering practices in Canada. Second, it describes curriculum development undertaken between a school of architecture and two engineering departments for the development of multidisciplinary design studios to teach integrated design and BIM. Case studies are set in urban contexts and include the development of new buildings as well as refurbishment proposals for an industrial obsolete landmark. Finally, learning from this teaching and research experience, it raises questions and issues regarding our readiness to cope with this paradigm shift.

BIM

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Morton
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has made a considerable impact on the construction industry and the way in which building design information can be accessed and interrogated. This impact is now being seen in the Schools of Architecture in the UK. Academia is beginning to see the feasibility and benefits of converting to such a new technology; will this inevitably start to filter into teaching BIM to architecture students? The concern by many in academia is that design will become secondary to pedagogy of building design. This viewpoint is based on the impact of CAD, where the art of hand drawing was feared lost forever. The use of computers in schools of architecture has become the norm, and the creative moving of a pen across paper has been replaced, to a degree, by the cursor across the CAD screen. As academia moved to respond to this change, the need to teach CAD became increasingly important. Therefore, will the paradigm shift of BIM require the inevitable move to a new approach in the design and construction of buildings? There are many misconceptions of BIM and the dilemma is that those teaching within the schools need to understand how BIM can readily interface with the design process and allow interrogation of the design are far earlier stages of the concept. Will academia ensure that BIM is used to enhance the creative process not hinder it?

The Practical Application of Building Information Modeling in the Construction Phase of the Building Life Cycle

2014 ◽  
Vol 496-500 ◽  
pp. 2523-2528
Author(s):  
Ying Ming Su ◽  
Chung Yi Lan
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Operating Cost ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Cumulative Cost ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Building Life Cycle ◽  
Design And Construction

With inappropriate design or construction, the functions and service life of buildings begin to decline from the day of official use until they are demolished and resulting in extremely high cumulative cost throughout the building life cycle (BLC). However, the development of building information modeling (BIM) provides a solution for short BLCs and massive cumulative cost caused by errors occurring during the building design and construction phases. BIM is an innovative technique applicable to building design and construction management that has been vigorously developed in the construction industry. The development of BIM technology is now a global trend that can not be ignored, similar to 2D CAD before. BIM can be further developed into several aspects and applied during the construction phase, most important of all, enhance the overall building functionality and save operating cost throughout the BLC.

scholarly journals PROSPECTS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF BIM-TECHNOLOGIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-63
Author(s):  
Valeriya Yu. Gulik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Design Construction

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has revolutionized the construction industry. Currently, it is impossible to imagine the industry without this fundamentally new approach to building design and working with documentation. The integration of design, construction, approval and monitoring processes through BIM is an effective way to improve the economic, environmental and other key performance indicators of construction companies, and thus increase their competitive advantages. However, it is too early to talk about the widespread transition of industry organizations to BIM. This article describes the advantages of information modeling technologies and the complexity of their implementation in the workflow.

ADOPTING BIM IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OFFICES

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeliz Tulubas-Gokuc ◽  
David Arditi
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Design Firms

Developments in technology such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) have recently created serious competitive pressures on architectural design firms and building construction companies. Design firms and construction companies need to adopt these new technologies to survive and thrive in this environment. Despite the advantages of BIM in building design, its adoption by architectural design firms has been slow due to obstacles such as lack of familiarity with BIM, lack of training in BIM, and lack of supporting resources such as hardware and software. The problems faced in adopting BIM were investigated by only few researchers who focused on the acceptance or penetration of BIM into construction firms. The objective of this research is to develop an integrated model to understand the adoption of BIM in architectural design firms. The model involves (1) the fit between the tasks to be performed by design professionals and the technology provided by BIM, (2) the fit between the organizational competency in the design firm and the capabilities offered by BIM, and (3) the fit between the designers’ knowledge/skills in BIM and the sophistication of the BIM product. After a thorough review and synthesis of technology adoption models and theories, this paper proposes an integrated model to understand the adoption of BIM by architectural design firms. The model argues that using BIM depends on BIM’s properties as well as the tasks at hand, the organizational competency of the company, and the perceived ease of use.

scholarly journals Sustainable BIM-Based Construction Engineering Education Curriculum for Practice-Oriented Training

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 6120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanghyo Lee ◽  
Joosung Lee ◽  
Yonghan Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Information Modeling ◽  
Construction Engineering ◽  
Educational Curriculum ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Process Innovations ◽  
Construction Methods ◽  
New Information ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Traditional Construction ◽  
Productivity Gains

The latest IT technology integration movements, such as building information modeling (BIM), have engendered changes in the technology and participatory organizations in the construction industry, which have resulted in process innovations and productivity gains. BIM lays the foundation for using a variety of new information that is not applicable to traditional construction methods. Construction companies are applying such information to various analyses, simulations, and learning and education projects to stimulate innovation. In Korea, however, since BIM was introduced in 2008, it has been used in various ways across diverse fields, but its contribution remains minimal. This is due to the inadequate competence level of BIM managers, who emerge from a system incapable of adequately educating BIM managers. In other words, the curriculum has not been able to impart the BIM skills necessary to accommodate the requirements of the industry. Only the most basic BIM modeling course is offered, and even such a course is dependent on external instructors. This creates a gap with the existing construction engineering educational curriculum. This study proposes a BIM-based construction engineering educational curriculum that has not been attempted before to overcome these limitations and generate a BIM workforce to cater to the industry.

scholarly journals A Two-Stage Building Information Modeling Based Building Design Method to Improve Lighting Environment and Increase Energy Efficiency

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (19) ◽  
pp. 4076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sha Liu ◽  
Xin Ning
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Optimal Design ◽  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Optimized Design ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Lighting Environment ◽  
Building Designs

Buildings are one of the largest energy consumers in the world, and have great energy saving potential. Thermal systems and lighting systems take most of the energy in a building. Comparing with the optimization solutions developed for a thermal system, the research of improving the lighting system is insufficient. This study aims to improve the lighting environment and reduce the energy by optimizing the building design, which has the largest potential for cutting energy economically compared with the other stages in the life cycle of a building. Although many approaches have been developed for building design optimization, there is still one big problem obstructing their successful practices, in that the designers who take the responsibility of making building designs are not experts in building physics, thus they are not capable of calculating the most appropriate parameters and operating the professional software to optimize their designs. Therefore, this study proposes a user-friendly method for designers to improve building designs. Firstly, Building Information Modeling (BIM) and particle swarm optimization algorithm are applied to build an intelligent optimal design search system. The optimized design from this system can largely use daylighting for internal illumination and save energy. Secondly, different types of lighting control systems are compared and the one which can save maximal energy is added to the selected optimal design. A case study demonstrates that optimized designs generated by the proposed design method can save large amounts of life cycle energy and costs, and is effective and efficient.

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