scholarly journals On the Exploration of Building Information Modeling Capabilities for Promoting Sustainability-related Practices in Construction Projects: Case Studies in China and USA

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 764-786
Author(s):  
Ghasan Alfalah ◽  
Abobakr Al-Sakkaf ◽  
Eslam Mohammed Abdelkader
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Green Design ◽  
Rating Systems ◽  
First Case ◽  
Building Information

This paper deals with sustainable design and construction, since the interest in and the awareness of green design has grown dramatically in the past several years and the different rating systems used worldwide the main focus will be on LEED; the different LEED certifications available, the process of the certifications, and the criteria on which the certification consider. Additionally, it will relate its new trends with each other by showing how building information modeling can be used to achieve a sustainable design. The powerful tools of building information modeling (BIM) will be discussed that can ease and aid the process of the LEED certification of a building. This paper also reports a demonstration pertinent to the implementation BIM can provide to achieve a sustainable green design. Two case studies are investigated; the first case study is a LEED Gold certified 128-story tower in Shanghai, China while the second is a LEED Platinum certified 13-Story building in San Francisco, USA.

scholarly journals Lean Applications in Construction

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Mohammad Darabseh
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Lean Construction ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Building Information

Lean Construction is one of the methods used to improve control over construction projects by eliminating waste in time and materials. Lean Construction is an adaptation from the Lean Manufacturing principles to the construction industry. The purpose of this article was to review the case studies published in 2018 in the Inspec database to find out where Lean is being implemented and how. The article approach by setting the search criteria first and then inspect the result to find the non-related results and eliminate it. After that, the article was reviewed and summarized. The article verifies each article finding; however Lean Construction and Building Information Modeling (BIM) are relatively new for the construction industry and they still need more time to be adopted widely and to be applied on a lower-cost budget. However, the discussed cases show a promising future for these technologies.

scholarly journals Challenges of the expansive use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in construction projects

Production ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannele Kerosuo ◽  
Reijo Miettinen ◽  
Sami Paavola ◽  
Tarja Mäki ◽  
Jenni Korpela
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Building Information

Building information modeling for sustainable design and LEED® rating analysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salman Azhar ◽  
Wade A. Carlton ◽  
Darren Olsen ◽  
Irtishad Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Building Information

scholarly journals Towards Enhancing Building Information Modeling Implementation in the Egyptian AEC Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Nouran Elabd ◽  
Laila Khodeir
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Recent Decade ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Design Construction ◽  
Design And Construction ◽  
Aec Industry

Since the expression "Building Information Modeling" (BIM) was initially presented in the Engineering and Construction AEC industry in the most recent decade; it has changed numerous parts of the design, construction, and operation of a building. BIM is a middleware connector that represents the advancement and utilization of PC. BIM has various frameworks which have been conducted by the pioneers in the BIM industry to enhance the BIM process. There is a study of the reflection of those frameworks on the Egyptian AEC industry to overcome the threats that prevent Egypt from applying BIM technology more broadly. In addition, a comparison is conducted between the successful countries which implemented BIM in their projects and managed to enhance their adoption by examining the local challenges and targets. The countries then made strategies and standards to overcome the aforementioned obstacles. Furthermore, successful actions were applied that can match with the Egyptian industrial requirements. This paper is expected to define the challenges which are facing the Egyptian industry to apply BIM and the potential capabilities of solving those problems. To acquire the vital information to carry on this paper, a questionnaire was created and distributed in the AEC community. The reason for the study was to see how experts consider BIM as a device in the fields of design and construction in general and in the Egyptian industry particularly. The aim of this paper is to propose a framework through several case studies which are discussed, analyzed and compared. The purpose of the analysis is to explore the importance of using BIM. Additionally, exploring the effect of different parameters on implementing BIM helped significantly during the process. It starts with proposing its framework with evaluating matrix that contains attributes to measure its success, moreover, it serves as a great help to the Egyptian companies that make real business decisions about enhancing BIM implementation through this framework.

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