Abstract
The construction industry environment nowadays is becoming more complex with more issues to be resolved with the agreeable approaches amongst the team. Nevertheless, the Building Information Modelling (BIM) innovation is acknowledged to disentangle those prevalent issues towards delivering a better project performance. With the emergence of BIM technology, various concerns such as constant errors and reworks, team-miscommunication, construction waste, energy inefficiencies, and many more in the industry practices, could be refined. Specifically, BIM capabilities mainly facilitate the design and construction operations. Albeit the processes involved demand an early planning and profound decision-making, the BIM mechanism helps the project team to execute the proposed construction projects effectively. With regards to maintaining the sustainability in the industry, “Green BIM” term is introduced to describe the manipulation of BIM technology to be incorporated along with the sustainable design and construction techniques. Therefore, this paper reviews the potentials of “Green BIM” in improving the traditional practices of project stakeholders throughout the project life cycle, particularly focusing on the design and construction phases. It discusses the previous studies on “Green BIM”, “Green BIM” concepts, and “Green BIM” approaches concerning its benefits and challenges in enhancing the construction industry practices. Significantly, through the appropriate “Green BIM” resolution, the procedures initiated with the green settings and completed with the green requirements, could empower more sustainable construction industry
Highlights
The “green” construction is increasingly becoming the norm in most new construction project nowadays
Presents a methodology conforming Building Information Modelling (BIM) and LCA tools towards designing sustainable building projects that develop information database via a model to simplify the process of creating sustainable designs and to evaluate the environmental impacts (EI) of buildings [15]
Green BIM as one of the sustainable development platforms conceivably could assist towards accomplishing the sustainability goals
Summary
The “green” construction is increasingly becoming the norm in most new construction project nowadays. Due to its numerous benefits, green construction that promotes sustainability in the construction industry brings altogether the industry stakeholders to join the green building bandwagon. The green project's principles are evolved around developing design and construction conforming towards natural resources usage efficiency including energy, water, material selection, environmental quality, operations and maintenance, and waste and toxic reduction [1]. To make more effective improvement in the construction industry, governments across the globe significantly took initiatives to mandate green standards as for making their construction projects more sustainable against environmental impact. Following the green design and construction trends, the term “Green BIM” comes into the scene, contributing more effects towards sustainability in the construction industry.
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