Abstract
The strength of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in achieving sustainable buildings is well recognized by the global construction industry. However, current understanding of the state-of-the-art green BIM research is still limited. In particular, a focus study on how BIM contribute to green building design through building performance analysis (BPA) is not available. This paper aims to provide systematic and comprehensive insights on current trends and future potentials of green BIM research by analyzing the existing literature with their research features (i.e. research backgrounds, goals, methods and outputs). In total, 80 publications have been collected, analyzed and discussed. The results show that among ten main BPA types, energy & thermal analysis, green building rating analysis, and cost and benefit analysis are the most studied. However, wind & ventilation analysis, acoustic analysis, and water efficiency analysis receive little attention. Moreover, more research focusing on integrated design analysis should be carried out for optimal design outcome. In addition, most of the collected literature research on the capability of data integration and analysis of green BIM tools, while their capability of visualization and documentation has limited examination. Furthermore, most researchers utilized one main software package while utilization of information exchange formats (IEF) is limited. To increase interoperability of green BIM tools, how different BIM authoring tools and IEFs can be utilized for BPA requires further investigation.
Highlights
The concept of “green building” arose in the 1990s in response to the considerable environmental problems that the building sector has caused worldwide (Zuo & Zhao 2014)
Wong and Zhou (2015) conducted a comprehensive review of green BIMrelated journal papers by four key project stages. It lacks a systematic review on green Building Information Modeling (BIM) literature based on green building aspects nor building performance analysis (BPA) types, which leads to a lack of knowledge of how green BIM can currently serve as an integrated green building design tool
To clearly define the scope of this literature review, the taxonomy presented by Cooper (1988) is utilized in this study, which includes six characteristics for literature review: (1) Goal: The aim of this study is to provide insights on the current progress and future potential of BIM research for green building design via BPA
Summary
The concept of “green building” arose in the 1990s in response to the considerable environmental problems that the building sector has caused worldwide (Zuo & Zhao 2014). Wong and Zhou (2015) conducted a comprehensive review of green BIMrelated journal papers by four key project stages. It lacks a systematic review on green BIM literature based on green building aspects nor building performance analysis (BPA) types, which leads to a lack of knowledge of how green BIM can currently serve as an integrated green building design tool. Chong et al (2017) tempted to examine the adoption of BIM for sustainability This time, they collected different types of literature (including standards, guidelines, journal and conference papers) and analyzed them by five key project stages and two key green building aspects. Conference literature is neglected and several important BPA types are overlooked in their work
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