ARCOM

Search or browse again.

Click on the titles below to expand the information about each abstract.
Viewing 10 results ...

Brunet, M, Motamedi, A, Guénette, L and Forgues, D (2019) Analysis of BIM use for asset management in three public organizations in Québec, Canada. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(01), 153–67.

Che Ibrahim, C K I, Mohamad Sabri, N A, Belayutham, S and Mahamadu, A (2019) Exploring behavioural factors for information sharing in BIM projects in the Malaysian construction industry. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(01), 15–28.

Duryan, M and Smyth, H (2019) Service design and knowledge management in the construction supply chain for an infrastructure programme. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(01), 118–37.

Fuentes, M E (2019) Co-creation and co-destruction of experiential value: a service perspective in projects. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(01), 100–17.

Hassanain, M A, Aljuhani, M, Sanni-Anibire, M O and Abdallah, A (2019) Interdisciplinary design checklists for mechanical, electrical and plumbing coordination in building projects. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(01), 29–43.

Kannimuthu, M, Raphael, B, Palaneeswaran, E and Kuppuswamy, A (2019) Optimizing time, cost and quality in multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(01), 44–63.

Lim, T, Porras-Alvarado, J D and Zhang, Z (2019) Pricing of highway infrastructure for transportation asset management. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(01), 64–79.

Murphy, M and Eadie, R (2019) Socially responsible procurement. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(01), 138–52.

Smyth, H, Duryan, M and Kusuma, I (2019) Service design for marketing in construction. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(01), 87–99.

Zhou, H and Rezazadeh Azar, E (2019) BIM-based energy consumption assessment of the on-site construction of building structural systems. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(01), 2–14.

• Type: Journal Article
• Keywords: Energy consumption; Reinforced concrete; Building information modelling; Carbon emissions; On-site construction; Steel structure; Structural system;
• ISBN/ISSN: 2044-124X
• URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-01-2018-0002
• Abstract:
  Steel and reinforced concrete are among the most common structural materials used in the construction industry. Cost and the speed of construction have been usually the main criteria when selecting a building’s structural system, whereby the environmental impact of the structural material is sometimes ignored. Availability of an easy-to-use tool for environmental assessment of the structural alternatives could encourage this evaluation in the decision making. The purpose of this paper is to introduce an automated tool for the environmental assessment of the on-site construction processes of a building structural system, which calculates the energy consumption and carbon emissions of the structural system as a parameter for comparison. This assessment tool is implemented using a building information modeling (BIM) platform to extract structural elements and their key attributes, such as type, geometrical and locational data. These data are processed together with a productivity database to calculate machine hours, and then predefined energy and carbon inventories are used to assess the energy consumption of the structural system in the erection/installation stage. This assessment tool provides an automated and easy-to-use approach to estimate energy consumption and carbon emissions of different structural systems that are modeled in a BIM platform. The results of this tool were within the ranges reported by the available studies. This research project presents a novel approach to use BIM-based attributes of the structural elements to calculate the required efforts, i.e. machine hours, and assess their energy consumption and carbon emissions during construction processes.