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Informed retrofitting and maintenance is recognised as a cornerstone of sustainable heritage buildings. Clients and the construction team are concerned with the delivery of projects that are within the timescale, budget, as well as energy efficient and environmentally friendly. Indeed, they are increasingly being challenged to deliver sustainability performance of heritage projects. Employer Information Requirements (EIR) is now seen as essential for in any successful heritage building delivery. When designing a sustainable BIM project it has to be made sure that a complete and comprehensive EIR is delivered at the beginning of the project, in order to be able to produce a sustainable and energy efficient building, the EIR has to assure delivery of a full package of sustainable requirements for the construction project team, which in turn will allow them to produce a complete and correct BIM Execution Plan (BEP) that will be the basis upon which the whole construction process and definition of roles and responsibilities will be based. This paper discusses the design and development of an Ontology-based, BIM-enabled framework for EIR, which will support clients of smart-heritage projects to define their requirements in terms of sustainability. It will investigate the innovative approaches and methods used to produce a complete, correct, and comprehensive EIR. This framework will enable the heritage team to capture, analyse, and translate these requirements and convert them into constructional terms understood by all stakeholders, which covers all aspects needed to produce a smart-heritage project. The intention of this study is to save time, effort and cost, and in the same time provide an informed basis for delivering a successful project.
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Dwairi, S., Mahjoubi, L., Odeh, M., Kossmann, M. (2017). Ont-EIR Framework to Deliver Sustainable Heritage Projects. In: Bahei-El-Din, Y., Hassan, M. (eds) Advanced Technologies for Sustainable Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48725-0_3
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