BIM is one of the main technical ways to realize building informatization, and the model’s texture is essential to its style design during BIM construction. However, the texture maps provided by mainstream BIM software are not realistic enough...
Global warming and other environmental problems are increasing the demand for green and low-carbon buildings. The development of high-performance computers and building information models has a significant impact on low-carbon buildings. Low-carbon b...
The development of separate building performance simulation tools has brought about a significant need for the integration of multi-domain simulations that would enable multiple building performance analyses to be conducted from a single building mod...
Building Information Modelling (BIM) workflows for prefabricated construction lack mechanisms that generate and compare alternative component configurations directly from a design model. Existing approaches define the optimisation search space manual...
As the foundation for digitalization, building information modeling (BIM) technology has been widely used in the field of architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management (AEC/FM). Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) oblique photogrammetry...
This study proposes a Two-points Spatial Alignment System (TSAS) for accurate positioning of Building Information Modeling (BIM) objects in Mixed Reality (MR) environments at construction sites. Conventional spatial alignment methods present limitati...
Building Information Modeling (BIM) three-dimensional (3D) objects undergo repeated conversion and reconstruction processes for cross-platform utilization, during which geometric information loss, topological distortion, and semantic omission frequen...
The AEC’s resource consumption and environmental impact necessitate a shift towards sustainable, circular practices. Building information modeling, powered by information technology, serves as a key enabler in this transition, offering life cyc...
The Building Information Modelling (BIM) methodology has been applied in distinct sectors of the construction industry with a growing demonstration of benefits, supporting the elaboration of integrated and collaborative projects. The main foundation...
To improve the quality of starting torque and suspension force, a composite cage rotor bearingless induction motor (CCR-BIM) is designed, which adopts a composite cage rotor structure that combines an inner rotor and an outer rotor. First, the overal...
In today’s construction industry, a topic of paramount importance is reducing energy consumption within buildings. This study endeavors to combine Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) through a multi-objective opt...
This manuscript provides a robust framework for the extraction of common structural components, such as columns, from terrestrial laser scanning point clouds acquired at regular rectangular concrete construction projects. The proposed framework utili...
The aim of the paper is to identify an efficient method for transforming the point cloud into parametric objects in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction by four main steps: 3D survey of the structure under investigation, generatio...
Point cloud data are used to create an as-built building information model (as-built BIM) that reflects the actual status of any building, whether being constructed or already completed. However, indoor clutter objects in the point cloud data, such a...
The processing of remote sensing measurements to Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a popular subject in current literature. An important step in the process is the enrichment of the geometry with the topology of the wall observations to create a...
Reverse engineering and the creation of digital twins are advantageous for documenting, cataloging, and maintenance control tracking in the cultural heritage field. Digital copies of the objects into Building Information Models (BIM) add cultural int...
The architectural heritage of the 20th century has proved to be highly vulnerable to the test of time, with slight variations in different geographical contexts. The lack of value recognition, restrictions imposition, and resulting protection has led...
Compared with other industries, construction has maintained one of the lowest growth rates in productivity and innovation over the last decades. Moreover, low compliance with schedule targets has remained a common issue throughout projects. Therefore...
In this study, a topological matching algorithm is introduced for semantic vertex detection to automate dimension generation in a building information modeling (BIM) environment based on the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) standard. Conventional IF...
The growing interest within the construction industry in the preservation, rehabilitation, and conversion of heritage-value buildings has led to the implementation of Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM) across all sectors. The rigorously a...
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...
Classification of BIM objects is critical for enhancing information interoperability and standardization within construction projects; however, research on automated BIM object classification based on standardized classification systems remains limit...
Renovation is known to be a complicated type of construction project and prone to errors compared to new constructions. The need to carry out renovation work while keeping normal business activities running, coupled with strict governmental building...
Early-stage residential building design in dense urban environments involves complex interactions among zoning regulations, geometric configuration, environmental performance, and economic feasibility. Conventional CAD–spreadsheet workflows and...
Among the methods of 3D reconstruction, the automatic generation of 3D models from building documentation is one of the most accessible and inexpensive. For 30 years, researchers have proposed multiple methods to automatically generate 3D models from...
Most of the buildings that exist today were built based on 2D drawings. Building information models that represent design-stage product information have become prevalent in the second decade of the 21st century. Still, it will take many decades befor...
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...
Insulation systems for the floor, roof, and external walls play a prominent role in providing a thermal barrier for the building envelope. Design decisions made for the insulation material type and thickness can alleviate potential impacts on the emb...
Interdisciplinary collaboration and communication are two essential aspects of Building Information Modeling (BIM) [...]
Through the addition of humanly imperceptible noise to an image classified as belonging to a category
A robot can accurately localize itself and navigate in an indoor environment based on information about the operating environment, often called a world or a map. While typical maps describe structural layouts of buildings, the accuracy of localizatio...
Today, a building is not just a “body” or a “machine” as defined by modern architecture, but rather an immaterial entity immersed in a digital world where not only its components but also the information associated with it are accounted for. In recen...
Among various building information model (BIM) reconstruction methods for existing building, image-based method can identify building components from scanned as-built drawings and has won great attention due to its lower cost, less professional opera...
This study proposes a decision-making framework that integrates a routing model based on the geographic information system (GIS) and a genetic algorithm into a building-information modeling (BIM) environment to overcoming the limitations of the plann...
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...
This study asks how early-stage residential building form and envelope decisions affect the trade-off between annual operational energy and A1–A3 embodied impact in a hot-arid Saudi context. The motivation is the need for workflows that evaluat...
Process-oriented BIM research has documented coordination workflows and design decisions, but project records rarely show how technical evidence becomes a basis for joint judgment and how confirmed outcomes become controlled project information for s...
Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been one of the most dominant trends in the construction industry worldwide. In Korea, since 2012, public construction projects worth more than USD 40 million have been subject to the application of BIM. Howeve...
Over the course of the last twenty years, building information modeling (BIM) has emerged as a firmly established construction methodology integrating fundamental principles. The implementation of BIM methodologies possesses the capability to augment...
The integration of generative design (GD) and building information modelling (BIM), as a new technology consolidation, can facilitate the constructability of GD’s automatic design solutions, while improving BIM’s capability in the early design phase....
Building information modelling (BIM) provides architectural 3D visualization and a standardized way to share and exchange building information. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in using BIM, not only for design and construction, but al...
Analog, paper-based workflows remain the norm in the condition assessment of reinforced concrete infrastructure, limiting the efficiency with which diagnostic data can be used in maintenance planning. In this research, a pre-processing procedure and...
This paper presents an algorithm to translate building topology in an object-oriented architectural building model (Building Information Modeling, BIM) into an object-oriented physical-based energy performance simulation by using an object-oriented p...
Given the heightened importance of revolutionising 4D BIM-based construction scheduling in modular construction, it has become vital to explore how 4D-BIM could be integrated with the lean concept. Therefore, this research aims to develop a lean-inte...
Holistic views of all environmental impacts for buildings such as Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) are rarely performed. Building services are mostly included in this assessment only in a simplified way, which means that their embodied impacts are usual...
Integrating building information modeling (BIM) technology into historical and cultural heritage structures has resulted in historic building information modeling (H-BIM), an effective method for managing and documenting invaluable historical artifac...
This study introduces the BIM (building information modeling)-GIS (geographic information system) conceptual mapping (B2GM) standard ISO N19166 and proposes a mapping mechanism. In addition, the major issues concerning BIM-GIS integration, and the co...
Building information modeling (BIM) technologies use precise geometry and relevant data to enhance and improve the maintenance performance of facilities integrated with 3D object-oriented computer aided design (CAD). Although most owners agree on the...
This study demonstrates the research and development of a visualization method called thermal performance simulation. The objective of this study is providing the results of thermal performance simulation results into building information modeling (B...
The integration of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) into Building Information Modeling (BIM) processes is becoming increasingly important for enhancing the environmental performance of construction projects. This scoping review examines how LCA methods an...
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