Investigation of Interoperability between Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Building Energy Simulation (BES)

Shisheng Chen; Ruoyu Jin; Mahmood Alam

doi:10.1556/1848.2018.9.2.9

Investigation of Interoperability between Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Building Energy Simulation (BES)

Shisheng Chen, Ruoyu Jin, Mahmood Alam

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Abstract

Building Information Modelling (BIM) has become an emerging digital technology in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. There is a growing demand on applying BIM for sustainable design including the building energy simulation (BES). Lack of sufficient interoperability has caused barriers to utilize the information from BIM for BES. In this study, the interoperability between BIM and four different BES tools (i.e., Ecotect, EQUEST, Design Builder and IES-VE) was explored by using a case study of a residential building in the design stage. The misrepresented information from BIM to multiple BES tools were identified based on six different categories of building information parameters. The research proposed an approach of creating gbXML file with an improved integrity of information in BIM. Overall, this study would lead to further work in developing platforms for improving the information transformation from BIM to BES.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	137-144
Journal	International Review of Applied Sciences and Engineering
Volume	9
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1556/1848.2018.9.2.9
Publication status	Published - 28 Nov 2018

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Keywords

Building Information Modelling (BIM)
building energy simulation (BES)
interoperability
sustainable design
op
Green Building XML schema (gbXML)

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Mahmood Alam
- M.Alambrighton.acuk
- School of Arch, Tech and Eng - Associate Dean Education and Student Exp
- Built Environment, Architecture and Construction (BEACON) Research Excellence Group
- Centre for Earth Observation Science
- Advanced Engineering Centre
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