How engineers are using data to drive sustainability Meike Borchers from WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff spoke about Integrating Sustainability Data into the modelling.

1. Meike Borchers
Meike.borchers@wspgroup.com
Integrating
Sustainability
Data in BIM or
Bim Bem Bam
October 2016

2. INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY DATA IN BIM
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 Wouldn’t it be good…
 Getting started
 Better…
 Even better!
 What’s next?

3. WOULDN’T IT BE GOOD…
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 To know the embodied carbon of
our structural designs as we
design
 To generate a lifecycle carbon
footprint including embodied and
operational carbon
 To be able to benchmark our
designs against others
And much later:
 To comply with BREEAM/LEED etc

4. GETTING STARTED…
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 Spreadsheets (2009)
Portland cement
73%
GGBS
0%
PFA
0%
Water
13%
Water reducer
0%
Aggregate
2%
Reinforcement
12%

5. GETTING STARTED…
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 Revit tweaking (2012)

6. BETTER…
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 IES Environmental LCA (2014) BIM → BEM
 Add environmental material data to energy model
 Measure whole life (design) performance

7. BETTER…
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 IES Lifecycle
Costing
 Basic
assessment
 Can use
database or
custom input

8. BETTER… BUT NOT PERFECT
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 IES IMPACT
 Difficulty with non-thermal elements
 Bespoke material build-ups
 Outdated version with many errors
 File exchange challenges REVIT to
IES
 Convoluted model, requires
‘decluttering’ but
 Decluttering means much of the
material data is lost
 Requires architects to follow model
setup protocol

9. BETTER… BUT NOT PERFECT
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 Benchmarking is
difficult!

10. EVEN BETTER! (…AND BACK TO REVIT)
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 Focus on materials and add in use data later (2016) BEM → BIM

11. EVEN BETTER! (…AND BACK TO REVIT)
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 Still requires lots of data input by hand

12. EVEN BETTER! (…AND BACK TO REVIT)
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 Still requires lots of data input by hand

13. EVEN BETTER! (…AND BACK TO REVIT)
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 Still requires lots of data input by hand

14. WHAT’S NEXT?
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BIM
Impacts from
Materials &
Construction
(Revit etc)
BEM
In Use Data
(IES etc)BAM!
Interoperable
Data Exchange
Or
One Tool?
Unregulated
energy
Use to validate
performance
once occupied
Benchmarks
Product data
Assessment &
Certification
Benchmarks

15. THANK YOU
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