Recent advances in BIMSUSTAIN:

The application of building information modeling in the context of

building physics and building ecology

K. Kiesel, L. Skoruppa, A. Mahdavi

K. Kiesel, L. Skoruppa, A. Mahdavi

BIMSustain - Background

Definition

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Building Information Modeling (BIM)

as a process involving thegeneration and managementof digitial representationsregarding physical andfunctional characteristics ofa construction

BIMSustain - Background

Statics Architecture Building science

K. Kiesel, L. Skoruppa, A. Mahdavi

Calculation Energy certificate Thermal simulation

BIMSustain - Method

Student project

CAD Archicad 16

CAD/MEP Allplan 2012

CAD/MEP Revit 2013

FEM Sofistik

FEM Tekla

FEM Dlubal

FEM

Software used for the case study:

type office

gross area 7500 m²

employees 300

location Vienna

concept low energy

Assignment:

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A = architectB = building scientistC = civil engineer

FEM Scia

MEP Plancal 8.1

Thermal Simulation EDSL Tas 9.2

Lighting Dialux 4.9

Energy Certificate Archiphysik 10

construction concrete

heating demand < 50 kWh.m-2.a-1

A

C B

structural concept energy concept

Design

calculation energy certificate

simulation prove thermal simulation

recommendations

A

Adjust design

C B

BIMSustain - Method

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New calculation New calculation

New simulation New simulation

C B

recommendations

A

Adjust design

New … New …

C B

…

A

Energy efficient building

BIMSustain - Method

Overview of all the teams and the assigned software

Software

Architect Civil engineer Building science

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BIMSustain - Results

Software

File format exchange possibilities between assigned software

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GBXML – Green building XML (Extensible markup language)IFC – Industry foundation class

BIMSustain - Results

FTA - Fault tree analysis

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BIMSustain - Conclusion

Interdisciplinary requirements : organizationcommunicationmotivationflexibiltypatience

to deal with software constraints

K. Kiesel, L. Skoruppa, A. Mahdavi

Technical interface:Import/ Export works frequentlymanual model optimization requiredmultitude makes workflow complex and time consumingimprovement would yield more efficiency

BIMSustain - Future Reseach

Technical interface:further analysis and focalize on one specific format

Interdisciplinary requirements : application of lessons learned in future project

experiments

K. Kiesel, L. Skoruppa, A. Mahdavi

K. Kiesel, L. Skoruppa, A. Mahdavi

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