Integration of Building Information Modeling and Economic and Environmental Impact Analysis to Support Sustainable Building Design

AbstractSustainable construction is critical to the architecture-engineering-construction (AEC) industry. The consideration and selection of optimal building components is necessary in order to fulfill multiple objectives of sustainable construction, which are often conflicting. Today, information and communication technologies (ICT) such as building information modeling (BIM) are widely used in the construction industry for decision making during design and construction. However, due to the complexity of building and construction, supporting multiple-objective decision making is not trivial. Currently, BIM has limited capability to support such a process. This paper introduces Simulation of Environmental Impact of Construction (SimulEICon), which is an extension of BIM designed specifically to aid in the decision-making process during the design stage of a construction project. SimulEICon is an add-on to the Autodesk Revit Architecture software, and it uses Microsoft Access for database-related operation...

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