Application of building information modelling (BIM) to perform life cycle assessment of buildings
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-2762.v23i40p96-121Keywords:
Life cycle assessment. Building information modelling (BIM). Building environmental assessment. Construction materials.Abstract
The environmental impacts from construction materials are often considered only as resources depletion in the buildings environmental assessment and certification applications. Building materials life cycle is rarely taken into account in such methodologies. That remark can be explained by the limitations of the Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), which provide environmental information that does not allow direct comparison and choice of construction products. The insertion of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data in models developed in the Building Information Modelling (BIM) platform would facilitate the implementation of such environmental assessment quantitative methodology in the construction field. Therefore the aim of this research is a literature review on the integration of environmental assessment studies in BIM platform, so that it becomes possible to predict and assess the potential environmental impacts of construction and technological choices made in the building design phase. An investigative approach on existing applications that enable such integration is developed, especially addressing the inclusion of LCA data in BIM platform. An action research is performed by BIM users, towards the evaluation of the selected applications. The final outcome of this paper is an overview of existing BIM-LCA applications and, moreover, the presentation of the main potentialities and limitations of such applications in order to understand the next steps in the development of new evaluation tools and methodologies.
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