Abstract
As human needs evolve, information technologies and natural environments require a wider perspective of sustainable development, especially when examining the built environment that impacts the central of social-ecological systems. The objectives of the paper are (a) to review the status and development of building information modeling (BIM) in regards to the sustainable development in the built environment, and (b) to develop a future outlook framework that promotes BIM in sustainable development. Seven areas of sustainability were classified to analyze forty-four BIM guidelines and standards. This review examines the use of BIM in sustainable development, focusing primarily on certain areas of sustainability, such as project development, design, and construction. The developed framework describes the need for collaboration with the multiple disciplines for the future adoption and use of BIM for the sustainable development. It also considers the integration between “BIM and green assessment criteria”; and “BIM and renewable energy” to address the shortcomings of the standards and guidelines.
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Introduction
The concept of sustainable development is rapidly evolving to embrace the ongoing relationship among social, economy, and natural systems. Innovations in science and technology play a critical role to supporting a transition toward the sustainable development, especially for cleaner productions and operational processes (Kranvanja et al. Kravanja et al. 2015). Built environment has impacted the center of social–ecological systems. It refers to any human-made structures or surroundings for supporting the society and economy. When implementing sustainable practices in the built environment, it is important to engage construction stakeholders (Petri et al. 2015). Building information modeling (BIM) is one of a sustainable technology that can be used to create and monitor a project’s digital information throughout its lifecycle. BIM technology has been receiving a tremendous amount of attention from the academia and industry, and offers the potential to transform the conventional project delivery approach (Eastman et al. 2011). BIM is a coordinated, and its consistent data store offers a collaborative working platform for all project stakeholders (Rogers et al. 2015). This innovative approach is able to improve the unproductive and fragmented practice that is currently used in the built environment. Using BIM technologies allows all parties to have the same goal and knowledge into the project in advance from different dimensional models, namely, three-dimensional model (3D), time-related model (4D), cost-related model (5D), and facility management-related model (6D), which are largely contributed by the BIM’s virtual and geometry information (Lopez et al. 2015). The applications and uses of BIM allow for sustainable approaches to improve performance (Chong et al. 2014) throughout different stages of the project lifecycle (Wong and Fan 2013).
Previous studies mainly focused on the technological aspects of BIM that developed new and improved BIM applications and uses for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) aspects (Wang and Chong 2015) in buildings or infrastructures (Shou et al. 2015). Although certain sustainability concepts and improvements have been mentioned part and parcel from the previous studies, no prior BIM-related research or review has emphasized on the sustainable development for the entire built environment from a holistic perspective. Therefore, the objectives of the paper are (a) to review the status and development of BIM for the sustainable development in the built environment, and (b) to develop a future outlook framework to promote BIM’s use in sustainable development. The review approach adopted a neutral and established perspective on the development of BIM, which all BIM guidelines and standards from different countries were reviewed. This approach was selected so as to provide a clear understanding on the actual practice of BIM in the built environment. Subsequently, the future outlook framework has been developed to address the gaps from the review and also to promote the integrative approach for sustainability practices.
The findings will strengthen the existing systems and policies, and provide important insights into promoting a sustainable built environment through the use of BIM technology. The review approach and analysis method are generalizable for other sustainability technologies in different sectors and industries.
Review approach
BIM is an evolving technology. While it has been well developed and received, it has yet to have comprehensive policies and regulations to popularize the technology (Bossink 2015), especially from the sustainable development perspective. Therefore, the neutral review approach was adopted, where all the standards and guidelines in relation of BIM were reviewed to determine the actual implementation of BIM in contributing into the sustainable development. It was a different approach from reviewing journal or conference articles because the sources would cover a wider view on BIM status and development across different disciplines and sectors in the built environment. The standards and guidelines were selected based on the popularity and references cited in academic publications and industrial magazines/reports. Most of them were derived from developed countries that have been using BIM technologies for several decades (Eastman et al. 2011). These sources would be a good and reliable reference to examine for the sustainable development in the built environment.
Subsequently, there is a need to organize sustainability areas according to the built environment working culture. The latest Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)’s Plan of Work 2013 was referred for the organization of the sustainability areas. It is because the plan includes many new activities (including BIM) into the project lifecycle (Bordass and Leaman 2014). Consequently, the related sustainability areas were formulated and modified based on the idea derived from the stages of work in the project lifecycle. Seven (7) sustainability areas were classified according to a number of aspects throughout the project lifecycle, namely,
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Development—this area describes to planning and development of the project including the required project delivery approaches or procurement systems. BIM can contribute effective and efficient processes in the project planning and development (Gibbs et al. 2015). This process reduces reworks and unnecessary wastes from re-planning and re-development.
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Design—this area describes the design of the project by all design teams, namely, architects and engineers. BIM will improve design and coordination among the design teams for a more practical and constructability of the project (Singh et al. 2011).
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Construction—this area describes the construction process of the project. BIM can prepare an early visualization or forecast on time, cost, and quality in a 3D environment (Wang et al. 2014). It will avoid errors in construction processes and improve the constructability or methods used in the project (Wang et al. 2016).
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Materials—this area describes the use of the materials and methods for the project. BIM can encourage and test new materials from the virtual 3D environment (Kim et al. 2015). It will improve the project life-span and performance.
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Energy consumption—this area describes the related tools and techniques in operating the project. BIM can perform energy simulation of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and lighting as required in the project (Ahn et al. 2014). It will reduce the energy and power use in a project.
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Maintenance—this area describes the maintenance of a project. BIM can provide a centralized and integrated facility management from the virtual environment (Chong et al. 2014). It can forecast and schedule the maintenance needs efficiently. This would help in providing a transparent platform for facilitating informed decision making in facility management (Reza et al. 2014).
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Demolition—this area describes the required refurbishment or demolition at the end of the project life-span. BIM can simulate every element in the project with the required specification and dimensions (Yun et al. 2014). It will support in selecting the right method for demolition or refurbishment.
Findings
Forty-four BIM standards and guidelines were collected from nine countries to review the status and development of BIM for the sustainable development. They were analyzed as per the categorized sustainability areas as shown in Table 1.
Most of the standards and guidelines were derived from United States of America, followed by Australia and United Kingdom. They were developed by universities, government sectors, and non-governmental organizations for the industry use. The most cited and popular BIM standard was National BIM Standard, which was published by National Institute of Building Science and buildingSMART alliance in United States of America.
The qualitative data were converted to quantitative data based on the number of appearance in the review as shown in Table 2. A total of one hundred forty-two sustainability areas were covered and repeated from the standards and guidelines. The design area had the largest number of appearances and recorded forty-two of them. It was followed by the areas of development and construction, which were thirty-nine and thirty-one. The areas of maintenance, materials, and energy consumptions received only sixteen, eight, and six, respectively. Surprisingly, none of the standards and guidelines mentioned about the sustainability area of demolition.
The results show an interesting finding on the current practice of BIM in the built environment, which was focused on the development and design aspects of the guidelines and standards. It has had a significant different compared to the critical review on articles in relation to BIM that was carried out recently by Volk et al. (2014), which most of the articles were identified and focused on energy analysis, lifecycle assessment, sustainability, and retrofit/refurbishment. As the guidelines and standards have been developed for the current need and practice in the industry, this comparison indicates that the current practice for sustainability has not covered for the research findings in those areas as published by the journal articles. This is probably due to the lack of awareness or verification on their potential uses in the industry. This different perspective will provide a good point-of-reference when developing the future outlook framework.
From a holistic perspective, most of the standards and guidelines were focused on the areas of development, design, construction, and maintenance. This is important as these areas serve as the foundation in the preliminary stage for effective adoption and use of BIM technology in the project. These standards and guidelines will facilitate the practice and coordination of BIM among the stakeholders and designers in the collaborative platform. These sustainable practices will contribute toward improved performance and avoidance of unnecessary waste throughout these processes, as stakeholders can make informed decisions by accessing BIM model data. As a result, it could prevent reworks and errors occurred, and indirectly contribute to the sustainable development in the built environment.
Apart from that, other sustainability areas would have a greater and direct impact and influence toward the sustainable development, namely, energy consumption, materials, and demolition. However, in the current BIM standards and guidelines, there are only limited coverage in these areas. The industry should use certain BIM applications and work with the green materials and efficient energy consumptions within buildings or infrastructures to better protect the environment and save on energy use (Yadollahi et al. 2014). BIM can also contribute toward the demolition area as the practice of demolition is rather complicated, and a virtual simulation would help in planning and decision making before the actual demolition. It would provide a fast and accurate waste estimation for demolition projects, and subsequently, it could also optimize energy efficiency of the demolition process (Cheng and Ma 2012). These areas need to be considered in the development of the future outlook framework.
Discussions
BIM has contributed toward certain areas of the sustainable development in the built environment. However, a lot of work need to done to achieve effective outcomes for the categorized sustainability areas. For instance, the green assessments can be referred to strengthen the findings of the review. Some of the recognized and popular indexes are Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (U.S. Green Building Council Australia 2016), Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM 2016), Green Star (Green Building Council Australia 2016), and Green Building Index (GBI Malaysia 2016). Yet, the current practice heavily focuses on construction aspects for green buildings (Chen and Hong 2015). New guidelines and practical tools are needed to support and define the requirements and steps involved for BIM to achieve and fulfill the certification assessment. Particularly, the indexes should be integrated with the sustainability areas of materials, energy consumption, and demolition from the BIM perspective. This approach is feasible as the green assessment criteria are rather generic and fit the required sustainable improvements in the built environment. These sustainability areas can be achieved through the simulations conducted using specialized BIM software during the design stage of the project. Doing this will allow for the production of energy efficient, healthier, and more environmentally conscious buildings.
BIM should also incorporate more sustainability functions when dealing with climate changes and greenhouse effects. BIM can simulate the energy and water usage within an asset. BIM allows its user to design the optimum consumption of the energy and water from different sources of energy or watering systems. For instance, the clean or renewable energy should be considered in the asset, which it will create a tremendous sustainability impact to the built environment through its policy (Chong and Lam 2013) or technology (Sakmani et al. 2013). The integration of the clean or renewable energy with BIM is a new concept. It will create various opportunities to both industry and academia. From a conceptual point of view, it can optimize the energy use and carbon emissions from buildings or infrastructures, and subsequently it can extend to a community, a town, or even a city. It will not only save the energy use, but also the additional energy can be reserved or even generated for other use in the area (for example, solar panels). This will contribute significantly to the natural environment.
Overall, the paper highlights that the current standards and guidelines have contributed on certain sustainability areas in the built environment. The needs for the integrations between (a) BIM and green assessment criteria, and (b) BIM and renewable energy are the important implications of the review. The integrations will address the shortcomings of coverage on the sustainability areas.
Future outlook framework
The integrations between (a) BIM and green assessment criteria, and (b) BIM and renewable energy should collaborate with multiple disciplines as to support the effective adoption and use of BIM for the sustainable development. It is because the norm practice of sustainability technologies is to primarily focus on an individual approach within the single discipline, which will create barriers to the market entry (Hoppmann et al., 2013). Consequently, some recent studies have begun to look into the integrative approach in addressing the sustainability issues through their policies (Teschner et al. 2012) or deployment strategies (Erzurumlu and Erzurumlu 2013). As a result, the framework development should consider the integrative approach from various disciplines or sectors. Yet, the multidisciplinary integrative approach is very challenging as it requires a high level of integration and knowledge from various disciplines.
Therefore, an attempt to integrate different disciplines is initiated in this paper. First, it needs to identify all related disciplines. The identification of the disciplines is rather a subjective process, but two arbitrary rules have been adopted in the process namely, (a) the disciplines need to uphold current and future BIM development that will integrate with other advanced technologies to contribute toward sustainable development and overall project performance (Wang and Chong 2015), and (b) the disciplines should be based on an embracing holism philosophy to accommodate the increased complex characteristics and policies in the planning, design, construction, and operation of the built environment (Lizarralde et al. 2014). After the detailed consideration, six generic disciplines have been identified such as, law, management, information communication and technology (ICT), engineering, energy, and health science.
Next, the identified disciplines need to connect with the seven sustainability areas in the built environment as shown in Table 3. This is to promote a collaborative working environment of BIM that can support the integration and enhance working relationships among the disciplines. Some practical examples have been proposed to explain clearly the potential areas of the integration for improving sustainable development in the built environment. The law and management disciplines are perceived as the fundamental processes for all the sustainability areas.
The development of the future outlook framework is focused on promoting BIM as a way of addressing sustainable development in the built environment. The development process needs to consider the findings and gaps as identified from the review and also to correlate with the multiple disciplines as highlighted. As a result, the framework (Fig. 1) was developed with the intention of describing and accommodating the concerns above into a simplified manner. It explains the need for developing more standards and guidelines for the sustainability areas of materials, energy, and demolition. Meanwhile, new functions of BIM should be explored in future practices so as to incorporate the built environment with green assessment criteria and renewable energy. All these processes should work under a collaborative platform with the related disciplines to tackle the sustainable development. It can start from a single asset either in building or infrastructure, and extend it to a bigger community area.
In summary, this paper renders three main contributions. First, the review has uncovered certain sustainability areas that require serious attention and development by the universities, governments, or non-government organizations. Second, the paper has proposed two new integrations for BIM with green assessment criteria and renewable energy. Lastly, the framework has highlighted the integrative approach with different disciplines in promoting for sustainability practices for BIM in the built environment.
Conclusions
This study has provided a review on the status and development of BIM for sustainable development in the built environment based on forty-four BIM guidelines and standards. The review has classified the guidelines and standards into seven sustainability areas. The results show that the sustainability areas of development, design, and construction are the main focus areas in BIM. This paper has developed a future outlook framework in promoting BIM for the sustainable development. The framework has considered the gaps from the review on the sustainability areas of materials, energy, and demolition and has also incorporated the integrative approach for sustainability practices for BIM with green assessment criteria and renewable energy under a multidisciplinary platform.
Certain limitations need to be considered in the review. The review sources have not adopted other BIM standards or guidelines that are published by vendors as to preserve the neutral position for the data analysis. Some BIM standards or guidelines may also not be included in the review, especially from the developing countries. The limitations serve as reminders that this review is not definitive as some useful information may change the results of the review. Nevertheless, the review has successfully achieved the objectives and rendered insightful references in promoting the sustainability practices for BIM in the built environment. Certain areas of the review approach and the framework can be generalized and referred by other sustainability technologies in different sectors.
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Chong, HY., Wang, X. The outlook of building information modeling for sustainable development. Clean Techn Environ Policy 18, 1877–1887 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-016-1170-7
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