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  • Article
  • Open Access
2,374 Views
18 Pages

Research on the Method for Pairing Drone Images with BIM Models Based on Revit

  • Shaojin Hao,
  • Xinghong Huang,
  • Zhen Duan,
  • Jia Hou,
  • Wei Chen and
  • Lixiong Cai

17 March 2025

With the development of drone and image recognition technologies, using drones to capture images for engineering structural damage detection can replace inefficient and unsafe manual maintenance inspections. This paper focuses on the pairing method b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,247 Views
24 Pages

6 August 2024

This study explores the transformative potential of integrating Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Generative Design methodologies in heritage conservation and building management. By utilizing BIM, detailed architectural, structural, and MEP mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,411 Views
29 Pages

An Integrated BIM-Based Application for Automating the Conceptual Design for Vietnamese Vernacular Architecture: Using Revit and Dynamo

  • Thai Bao Tran,
  • Tien Phat Dinh,
  • Truong Dang Hoang Nhat Nguyen,
  • Dang Huy Ly,
  • Byeol Kim and
  • Yonghan Ahn

16 June 2025

Vietnamese vernacular architecture (VVA), rich in cultural and historical significance, is increasingly endangered by modernization, the consequences of war, and environmental degradation. The preservation and revitalization of this architectural her...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,404 Views
25 Pages

29 January 2025

Conducting accurate and quick energy analyses for retrofitting purposes became crucial for Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) markets worldwide. This paper investigates the possibility of determining and implementing an ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
779 Views
16 Pages

10 December 2025

This study presents a terrestrial-laser-scanning-based scan-to-BIM workflow that transforms point cloud data into a BIM-based digital twin and analyzes how data collected with LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) can be converted into an information-r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,400 Views
19 Pages

Traditional design methods for single-story steel structure factories are characterized by low levels of digitalization and high error rates. To deal with these problems, a building information modeling (BIM) platform for the design of single-story s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,426 Views
17 Pages

Quantification of Construction Waste in Early Design Stages Using Bim-Based Tool

  • Rocío Quiñones,
  • Carmen Llatas,
  • Maria Victoria Montes and
  • Isidro Cortés

Construction and demolition waste represents a growing environmental, social, and economic problem, and has become a priority for European and worldwide policies. The early quantification of construction waste is essential for the minimisation of its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,867 Views
15 Pages

Application of BIM to Rebar Modeling of a Variable Section Column

  • Shushan Li,
  • Yongxin Shi,
  • Jinxin Hu,
  • Siyuan Li,
  • Hongmei Li,
  • Aijiu Chen and
  • Wei Xie

A planar construction drawing is usually used to guide the construction of reinforced concrete structures in the construction industry. Due to a lack of effective technical methods, the accuracy of rebar engineering lofting is insufficient. The rejec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,462 Views
28 Pages

Development and Implementation of a System for Electrical Engineering BIM Detailed Design in Construction Projects

  • Yan Yan,
  • Chaonan Wang,
  • Fan Zhang,
  • Lei Wu,
  • Jingyi Zang,
  • Tianqi Liu,
  • Shu Tang and
  • Zihao Ye

20 August 2025

Electrical engineering design in construction projects often faces challenges such as inefficient model connectivity, prolonged drawing reviews, and complex cable layout optimization, especially when high-precision Building Information Modeling (BIM)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
8,849 Views
15 Pages

17 January 2020

Exiting green building assessment standards sometimes cannot work well for large-scale public buildings due to insufficient attention to the operation and maintenance stage. This paper combines the theory of life cycle assessment (LCA) and building i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,557 Views
24 Pages

Assessing the Transformability of Public Housing through BIM

  • Giovanna Acampa,
  • Lorenzo Diana,
  • Giorgia Marino and
  • Rossella Marmo

12 May 2021

Public residential buildings make a large portion of the European existing stock and they quite often require deep renovation interventions. A methodology for setting priorities and targeting regeneration investments should be defined relying on the...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,112 Views
8 Pages

18 January 2024

In building structure design, refinements during construction for practical use or space conflicts induce construction delays and budget increases. Building information modeling (BIM) provides a 3D building model which includes the structure’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,369 Views
16 Pages

Urban-Metabolic Farming Modules on Rooftops for Eco-Resilient Farmscape

  • Youhanna E. William,
  • Hui An,
  • Szu-Cheng Chien,
  • Chew Beng Soh,
  • Barbara Ting Wei Ang,
  • Toshikazu Ishida,
  • Hikaru Kobayashi,
  • David Tan and
  • Ryan Hong Soon Tay

16 December 2022

The scarcity of land resources and food security challenges have prompted more effective uses of the rooftop as well as façade spaces in the urban city of Singapore. Urban rooftop spaces are used for mechanical and electrical (M&E) ameniti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,102 Views
20 Pages

15 September 2021

Construction waste (CW) is a prime contributor to the stream of total waste worldwide. One of the biggest challenges of the construction industry is to minimise CW and to develop practices of a more sustainable nature for its management and recycling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,519 Views
24 Pages

Research on Parametric Modeling and Model Transformation of Proton Hospital Based on BIM

  • Shoufu Li,
  • Tao Yu,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Yan Li,
  • Bo Lei,
  • Wenjing Qiao and
  • Yuyan Zhang

Aiming at problems such as difficulty and low efficiency in modeling complex building structures in Revit and Abaqus, Revit and Dynamo visual programming modeling were used to realize rapid parametric modeling of structures, and a Revit–Abaqus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,967 Views
27 Pages

14 September 2023

Building owners are working on converting their legacy documentation 2D floor plans into digital 3D representations, but the manual process is labor-intensive and time-consuming. In this paper, deep learning is leveraged to automate the process. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
7,855 Views
24 Pages

Renewable Energy System Controlled by Open-Source Tools and Digital Twin Model: Zero Energy Port Area in Italy

  • Sofia Agostinelli,
  • Fabrizio Cumo,
  • Meysam Majidi Nezhad,
  • Giuseppe Orsini and
  • Giuseppe Piras

1 March 2022

The present paper deals with an infrastructure digitization policy to optimize maintenance processes and energy efficiency to transform port areas to ZED (Zero Energy District). The Lazio Region started the process for all its ports in 2020. The Anzi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
24,412 Views
28 Pages

BIM and Digital Tools for State-of-the-Art Construction Cost Management

  • Samad M. E. Sepasgozar,
  • Aaron M. Costin,
  • Reyhaneh Karimi,
  • Sara Shirowzhan,
  • Ezatollah Abbasian and
  • Jinyun Li

Cost overrun has remained a key risk of construction projects that can be prevented by utilizing new technologies. This paper aims to identify the gap in the literature, which can potentially be addressed by using digital tools and technologies, by r...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,872 Views
19 Pages

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment is a new purpose fixed target facility proposed for the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator to search for long-lived exotic particles associated with Hidden Sectors and Dark Matter. This paper r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,756 Views
27 Pages

21 May 2025

Building information modeling (BIM) has revolutionized integrated planning by optimizing costs, schedule, and material use. However, building energy modeling (BEM) remains underutilized in early design stages due to interoperability challenges betwee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,011 Views
21 Pages

Construction projects often exceed budgets and deadlines, evidencing the need for collaborative methodologies such as Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM). This research evaluates their influence on the design sta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,001 Views
15 Pages

Integrating BIM-LCA to Enhance Sustainability Assessments of Constructions

  • Mayara S. Siverio Lima,
  • Susana Duarte,
  • Hans Exenberger,
  • Georg Fröch and
  • Matthias Flora

30 January 2024

The need for sustainable practices in the construction sector has never been more pressing, as the sector seeks to mitigate its carbon footprint, water consumption, and waste generation. The integration of building information modeling (BIM) and life...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,830 Views
20 Pages

Building Information Modeling/Building Energy Simulation Integration Based on Quantitative and Interpretative Interoperability Analysis

  • Carolina Fernandes Vaz,
  • Luísa Lopes de Freitas Guilherme,
  • Ana Carolina Fernandes Maciel,
  • André Luis De Araujo,
  • Bruno Barzellay Ferreira Da Costa and
  • Assed Naked Haddad

The integration between the building information modeling (BIM) methodology and the building energy simulation (BES) can contribute to a thermo-energetic analysis since the model generated and fed into BIM is exported to simulation software. This int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,317 Views
19 Pages

As Building Information Modeling (BIM) models are getting bigger, with more information linked to geometrical 3D models, a dedicated BIM search engine is important. A BIM search engine was developed to examine the value of exploiting a 3D object&rsqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Citations
9,382 Views
17 Pages

HBIM Modeling from the Surface Mesh and Its Extended Capability of Knowledge Representation

  • Xiucheng Yang,
  • Yi-Chou Lu,
  • Arnadi Murtiyoso,
  • Mathieu Koehl and
  • Pierre Grussenmeyer

Built heritage has been documented by reality-based modeling for geometric description and by ontology for knowledge management. The current challenge still involves the extraction of geometric primitives and the establishment of their connection to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,931 Views
30 Pages

A GPT-Powered Assistant for Real-Time Interaction with Building Information Models

  • David Fernandes,
  • Sahej Garg,
  • Matthew Nikkel and
  • Gursans Guven

13 August 2024

This study introduces DAVE (Digital Assistant for Virtual Engineering), a Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)-powered digital assistant prototype, designed to enable real-time, multimodal interactions within Building Information Modeling (BIM) e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
276 Views
19 Pages

29 December 2025

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is increasingly used to support green building design practices, yet its alignment with established green building assessment (GBA) tools remains underexamined. This study evaluates the extent to which Autodesk Rev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,988 Views
16 Pages

12 January 2023

This research focuses on data transfer from Sustainable Facility Management (SFM) to Building Information Modeling (BIM) applications—specifically BUILDER SMS to Autodesk Revit—where the BIM models are created for existing buildings. BIM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
10,309 Views
18 Pages

BIM-Based Design for Road Infrastructure: A Critical Focus on Modeling Guardrails and Retaining Walls

  • Salvatore Antonio Biancardo,
  • Nunzio Viscione,
  • Antonio Cerbone and
  • Enzo Dessì

Although building information modeling (BIM) has been widely adopted in the building industry for several decades, the use of BIM in the context of transportation infrastructure has been slow in terms of both adoption and application. Industry and ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
18,588 Views
18 Pages

14 August 2015

A building information model (BIM) contains data that can be accessed and exported for other uses during the lifetime of the building especially for facilities management (FM) and operations. Working under the guidance of well-designed BIM guidelines...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
23,113 Views
22 Pages

Promoting Sustainability through Investment in Building Information Modeling (BIM) Technologies: A Design Company Perspective

  • Marius Reizgevičius,
  • Leonas Ustinovičius,
  • Diana Cibulskienė,
  • Vladislavas Kutut and
  • Lukasz Nazarko

26 February 2018

The aim of this article is to enhance the understanding of how design companies perceive the benefits of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technologies application. BIM is recognized in the literature as a (potentially) powerful driver leading the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,177 Views
29 Pages

Energy Consumption of Retrofitting Existing Public Buildings in Malaysia under BIM Approach: Pilot Study

  • Nawal Abdunasseer Hmidah,
  • Nuzul Azam Bin Haron,
  • Aidi Alias Hizami,
  • Teik Hua Law and
  • Abubaker Basheer Abdalwhab Altohami

29 June 2023

Building information modeling (BIM) platforms to enhance design and construction processes have been rising recently, with BIM-based tools such as Autodesk Revit’s Architecture. The importance of BIM can be mainly seen in reducing energy consum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,602 Views
16 Pages

Integration of Emergy Analysis with Building Information Modeling

  • Suman Paneru,
  • Forough Foroutan Jahromi,
  • Mohsen Hatami,
  • Wilfred Roudebush and
  • Idris Jeelani

17 July 2021

Traditional energy analysis in Building Information Modeling (BIM) only accounts for the energy requirements of building operations during a portion of the occupancy phase of the building’s life cycle and as such is unable to quantify the true impact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
135 Views
15 Pages

Conventional uses of building information modeling (BIM) in existing-building representation tend to prioritize geometric consistency and efficiency, but often at the expense of interpretive depth. This paper challenges BIM’s tendency to promot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,989 Views
28 Pages

The construction sector of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), valued at USD 152 billion and employing 2.54 million people by 2023, is crucial to its economy. However, it faces challenges such as delays, disputes, and cost overruns. This study aims to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
8,916 Views
20 Pages

The extensive application of building information modeling (BIM) technology has brought opportunities and challenges to safety risk management in the field of prefabricated building construction. It is of great significance to provide timely informat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,672 Views
24 Pages

(1) This paper, based on the characteristics of complex steel structures as well as difficult points in the process of their detailed design, introduces the product design concept of DfMA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly) from the manufacturing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,815 Views
13 Pages

16 November 2020

Building Information Modeling (BIM) can act as a solution to improve various difficulties faced in the construction industry. BIM is expanding into infrastructure facilities for integrated information management, productivity improvement, and risk ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,460 Views
18 Pages

22 June 2021

This study investigates the feasibility and benefits of transferring data between Autodesk Revit (used for building information modeling (BIM)) and BUILDER SMS (used for sustainable facility management (SFM)). Two data transfer methods were evaluated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,160 Views
18 Pages

Development of a Project-Based Online Course for BIM Learning

  • Meng-Han Tsai,
  • Kuan-Lin Chen and
  • Yu-Lien Chang

17 October 2019

The purpose of this paper was to present a method for developing a project-based online course for building information modeling (BIM) learning. As the development of BIM has gradually increased its influence on the architecture, engineering, and con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,116 Views
32 Pages

Architectural and Structural Interoperability in the BIM Design Workflow

  • Piero Colajanni,
  • Laura Inzerillo,
  • Alessandro Pisciotta,
  • Francesco Acuto,
  • Konstantinos Mantalovas and
  • Gaetano Di Mino

16 December 2025

Achieving reliable interoperability between architectural and structural models remains one of the main challenges in BIM-based design workflows. Despite the widespread adoption of Building Information Modeling, the automatic transfer of information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,487 Views
29 Pages

3 October 2025

The conceptual design phase in architecture establishes the foundation for subsequent design decisions and influences up to 80% of a building’s lifecycle environmental impact. While Building Information Modeling (BIM) demonstrates transformativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
108 Views
21 Pages

Parameterized Layout Method of Spiral Hoop Rebar in Bridge Pier Base on BIM

  • Hongmei Li,
  • Ershi Zhang,
  • Qinghe Liu and
  • Shushan Li

20 January 2026

In Building Information Modeling (BIM) of bridge piers, persistent limitations have been observed in the modeling of spiral hoop rebar with variable pitch and diameter. Taking Revit as an example, its built-in family files can only generate spirals w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
9,682 Views
27 Pages

A Systematic Review of the Role of BIM in Building Sustainability Assessment Methods

  • José Pedro Carvalho,
  • Luís Bragança and
  • Ricardo Mateus

28 June 2020

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is creating new opportunities for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry. One of them is the integration of the Building Sustainability Assessment (BSA) during the design process. Currently, an ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
13,314 Views
20 Pages

BIM Methodology in Structural Design: A Practical Case of Collaboration, Coordination, and Integration

  • Alcinia Zita Sampaio,
  • Paulo Sequeira,
  • Augusto M. Gomes and
  • Alberto Sanchez-Lite

23 December 2022

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a methodology focused on the centralization and sharing of project information among all experts involved. The use of BIM platforms allows professionals to improve coordination, collaboration, and integration a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,600 Views
41 Pages

10 May 2024

The integration of 3D laser scanning and digital photogrammetry in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry has facilitated high-quality architectural surveys. However, the processes remains constrained by significant costs, ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,193 Views
20 Pages

Aging buildings pose a significant concern for many large developed cities, and the operation and maintenance (O&M) of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems becomes critical. Building Information Modeling (BIM) facilitates efficient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
104 Citations
13,115 Views
22 Pages

BIM and IoT Sensors Integration: A Framework for Consumption and Indoor Conditions Data Monitoring of Existing Buildings

  • Giuseppe Desogus,
  • Emanuela Quaquero,
  • Giulia Rubiu,
  • Gianluca Gatto and
  • Cristian Perra

17 April 2021

The low accessibility to the information regarding buildings current performances causes deep difficulties in planning appropriate interventions. Internet of Things (IoT) sensors make available a high quantity of data on energy consumptions and indoo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
127 Views
19 Pages

This study addresses the challenge of identifying heavy Building Information Modeling (BIM) library components that disproportionately degrade model performance. While BIM has become standard in the construction industry, heavy components characteriz...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,168 Views
29 Pages

The Role of the Interface and Interface Management in the Optimization of BIM Multi-Model Applications: A Review

  • Nawal Abdunasseer Hmidah,
  • Nuzul Azam Haron,
  • Aidi Hizami Alias,
  • Teik Hua Law,
  • Abubaker Basheer Abdalwhab Altohami and
  • Raja Ahmad Azmeer Raja Ahmad Effendi

7 February 2022

This review targets the BIM interface, the BIM multi-model approach, and the role of employing algorithms in BIM optimization to introduce the need for automation in the BIM technique, instead of complicating manual procedures in order to reduce poss...

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