AN AUTOMATED BIM-EMBEDDED APPROACH FOR RULE BASED CHECKING FOR GREEN BUILDING DESIGN IN EGYPT

doi:10.21608/asge.2019.271011

AN AUTOMATED BIM-EMBEDDED APPROACH FOR RULE BASED CHECKING FOR GREEN BUILDING DESIGN IN EGYPT

Document Type : Original Article

10.21608/asge.2019.271011

Abstract

Assuring the quality of the building design is one of the most vital issues while compiling a construction project especially amid the urgent actions towards affecting climate change risks and attempts to achieve Sustainable Development (SD) goals. Recently, Egypt has experienced deficit in electricity due to high demand and consumption of electricity in different building sectors. Therefore, ensuring sustainable and energy efficient buildings can assist in reducing energy demand and saving energy. TARSHEED, as a non-governmental measure to develop a local green building rating system. Building Information Modelling (BIM) as an efficient tool that is recently used to facilitate the design process and increase accuracy and interoperability as well as assisting local governments to ensure assigned standards of quality in building design specially safety and energy efficiency. With the help of BIM, previous successful measures and attempts were conducted to automate rule-based checking. This research investigates a BIM-based approach for automating checking of TARSHEED rating system. The developed approach utilizes as much information available in a building’s BIM model as possible to automate the design evaluation complied with TARSHEED criteria.

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