Abstract
Energy Efficient Building (EEB) design, construction, and operations require the development and sharing of building information among different individuals, organizations, and computer applications. The Representational State Transfer (RESTful) Building Information Modeling (BIM) web service is a solution to enable an effective exchange of data. This paper presents an investigation into the core RESTful web service requirements needed to effectively support the EEB project lifecycle. The requirements include information exchange requirements, distributed collaboration requirements, internal data storage requirements, and partial model query requirements. We also propose a RESTful web service design model on different abstraction layers to enhance the BIM lifecycle in energy efficient building design. We have implemented a RESTful Application Program Interface (API) prototype on a mock BIMserver to demonstrate our idea. We evaluate our design by conducting a user study based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The results show that our design can enhance the efficiency of data exchange in EEB design scenarios.
Highlights
The topic of facilitating data exchange between different design and simulation tools in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry is gaining increasing interest
We investigate the advantages of using Building Information Modeling (BIM) RESTful web services to support the Efficient Building (EEB) lifecycle
We identify the requirements to support the EEB lifecycle from four different perspectives: information exchange requirements, distributed collaboration requirements, internal data storage requirements, and partial model query requirements
Summary
The topic of facilitating data exchange between different design and simulation tools in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry is gaining increasing interest. With Building Information Modeling (BIM), attributes and data can be attached to a model, which potentially allows integrated analysis and simulation, especially for Energy Efficient. Redundancies and inefficiencies have been challenging the AEC community in recent years, and BIM is being widely adopted in the industry to foster communication and collaboration [13]. BIM acts as an integrated platform for team members to share and exchange project information through comprehensive object-oriented building models [15,16]. It utilizes CAD that ties all building components together with rich information embedded [17], and can be implemented in the lifecycle of a project representing the plan, design, construct and operate phases [18]
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