Environmental benchmarking of building typologies through BIM-based combinatorial case studies

Integrated life-cycle assessment (LCA) tools have emerged as decision-making support for BIM practitioners during the design stage of sustainable projects. However, differences between methodologies applied for determining the environmental impact of buildings produce significant variations in the r...

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Autores: Martínez Rocamora, Alejandro, Rivera Gómez, C., Galán Marín, C., Marrero Meléndez, Madelyn
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo General de la Arquitectura Técnica de España (CGATE)
Repositorio:RIARTE
OAI Identifier:oai:www.riarte.es:20.500.12251/2562
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12251/2562
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85116075826&doi=10.1016%2fj.autcon.2021.103980&partnerID=40&md5=097b1fc6b7444b9db7078dafe97b3148
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Impacto medioambiental
Ciclo de vida de edificación
Proyectos de edificación
Sostenibilidad
Edificación residencial
Algoritmos
3305.14 Viviendas
3311.02 Ingeniería de Control
1203.09 Diseño Con Ayuda del Ordenador
3308.04 Ingeniería de la Contaminación
3305.01 Diseño Arquitectónico
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Sumario:Integrated life-cycle assessment (LCA) tools have emerged as decision-making support for BIM practitioners during the design stage of sustainable projects. However, differences between methodologies applied for determining the environmental impact of buildings produce significant variations in the results obtained, making them difficult to be compared. In this study, a methodology is defined for generating environmental benchmarks for building typologies through a combination of BIM-based LCA tools and machine learning techniques. When applied to an 11-story residential building typology with 92 dwellings by varying the constructive solutions of façades, partitions, roof and thermal insulation materials, results fall within a range from 360 to 430 kgCO2eq/m2. The Random Forest (RF) algorithm is successfully applied for identifying the most decisive variables in the analysis (partitions and façades), and shows signs of being useful for predicting the environmental impact of future constructions and to be applied to the analysis of greater scale urban zones. © 2021 The Authors