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Keywords: building information modelling, BIM advantages, BIM adoption, sustainable BIM design, collaboration, construction engineering, sustainable design.

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The UK construction industry is rapidly advancing the use of BIM to achieve the UK Construction strategy of 2016 and 2025. The strategy comprehensively deals with the delivery of a product, which can be used for facilities management from the BIM process. The headline targets for 2025 are: 33% reduction in the initial cost of construction and the whole life cost of built assets; 50% reduction in the overall time, from inception to completion, for new build and refurbished assets; 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment; and 50% reduction in the trade gap between total exports and total imports for construction products and materials.

This paper evaluates how incorporating weather and topographical data and specification or sourcing of materials at the early project stages can help reduce the carbon footprint of a building project. The paper reports the findings from examining how the existing procurement processes achieve economically viable sustainable design solutions and impact on the supply chain and appointment processes as a result of the early incorporation of the relevant data into the BIM model. Architectural practices and contractors intentions to provide sustainable solutions over and above government's policies are assessed through self-administered questionnaires. A key finding is that the nature of their appointments or arrangements for procurement of specialist subcontractors within a BIM framework is crucial for the delivery of efficiently designed active/passive sustainable solutions. Furthermore, there is also a need to increase our understanding of the interrelationship between the BIM and building certification processes under the various systems such as LEED and BREEAM.

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Front Page Browse CCP CSETS CTR IJRT Other Authors Search Purchase Guide FAQ Contact us	Civil-Comp Proceedings ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 108 PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING Edited by: J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis and B.H.V. Topping Paper 178 Evaluating and Integrating Active and Passive Sustainable Design Technologies during the Preconstruction BIM Process M. Basu¹ and M. Phiri² ¹HLM Architects, Sheffield, United Kingdom ²School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom doi:10.4203/ccp.108.178 purchase the full-text of this paper Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper M. Basu, M. Phiri, "Evaluating and Integrating Active and Passive Sustainable Design Technologies during the Preconstruction BIM Process", in J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 178, 2015. doi:10.4203/ccp.108.178 Keywords: building information modelling, BIM advantages, BIM adoption, sustainable BIM design, collaboration, construction engineering, sustainable design. Summary The UK construction industry is rapidly advancing the use of BIM to achieve the UK Construction strategy of 2016 and 2025. The strategy comprehensively deals with the delivery of a product, which can be used for facilities management from the BIM process. The headline targets for 2025 are: 33% reduction in the initial cost of construction and the whole life cost of built assets; 50% reduction in the overall time, from inception to completion, for new build and refurbished assets; 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment; and 50% reduction in the trade gap between total exports and total imports for construction products and materials. This paper evaluates how incorporating weather and topographical data and specification or sourcing of materials at the early project stages can help reduce the carbon footprint of a building project. The paper reports the findings from examining how the existing procurement processes achieve economically viable sustainable design solutions and impact on the supply chain and appointment processes as a result of the early incorporation of the relevant data into the BIM model. Architectural practices and contractors intentions to provide sustainable solutions over and above government's policies are assessed through self-administered questionnaires. A key finding is that the nature of their appointments or arrangements for procurement of specialist subcontractors within a BIM framework is crucial for the delivery of efficiently designed active/passive sustainable solutions. Furthermore, there is also a need to increase our understanding of the interrelationship between the BIM and building certification processes under the various systems such as LEED and BREEAM. purchase the full-text of this paper (price £20) go to the previous paper go to the next paper return to the table of contents return to the book description purchase this book (price £75 +P&P)
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