Date of Publication: Jun 25, 2021

Author: Bruno Daniotti, Cecilia Maria Bolognesi, Sonia Lupica Spagnolo, Alberto Pavan, Martina Signorini, Simone Ciuffreda, Claudio Mirarchi, Meherun Nesa Lucky, Birgitta & ersson, Per & ersson, Alessandro Valra, Davide Madeddu, Jacopo Chiappetti, Diego Farina, Brian O’Regan, Eoin O’Leidhin, Farah Tahir, Karen Mould, Stephen O’Donovan, Sinead O’Sullivan, & riy Hryshchenko & Dominic O’Sullivan

Summary:

Since the buildings and construction sector is one of the main areas responsible for energy consumption and emissions, focusing on their refurbishment and promoting actions in this direction will be helpful to achieve an EU Agenda objective of making Europe climate-neutral by 2050. One step towards the renovation action is the exploitation of digital tools into a BIM framework. The scope of the research contained in this paper is to improve the management of information throughout the different stages of the renovation process, allowing an interoperable exchange of data among the involved stakeholders; the development of an innovative BIM-based toolkit is the answer to the research question. The research and results obtained related with the development of an interoperable BIM-based toolkit for efficient renovation in buildings in the framework of the European research project BIM4EEB. Specifically, the developed BIM management system allows the exchange of the data among the different tools, using open interoperable formats (as IFC) and linked data, in a Common Data Environment, to be used by the different stakeholders. Additionally, the developed tools allow the stakeholders to manage different stages of the renovation process, facilitating efficiencies in terms of time reduction and improving the resulting quality. The validity of each tool with respect to existing practices is demonstrated here, and the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed tools are described in the workflow detailing issues such as interoperability, collaboration, integration of different solutions, and time consuming existing survey processes. Full article

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https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/11/7/271