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Title:BIM and LCA integration : a systematic literature review
Authors:ID Potrč Obrecht, Tajda (Author)
ID Röck, Martin (Author)
ID Hoxha, Endrit (Author)
ID Passer, Alexander (Author)
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Language:English
Typology:1.02 - Review Article
Organization:Logo ZAG - Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute
Abstract:To foster sustainable development, the environmental impacts of the construction sector need to be reduced substantially. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the established methodology for the quantification of environmental impacts, and therefore has been increasingly applied to assess the environmental performance of buildings. By coupling LCAs with digital design tools, e.g., building information modeling (BIM), the identification of environmental hotspots and their mitigation is possible during the design process. The objective of the study is to identify the current integration approaches, and determine the pros and cons of the integration process from different viewpoints, namely, technical, informational, organizational and functional issues. Therefore, a comprehensive systematic literature review (SLR) was performed. We identified 60 relevant BIM-LCA case studies and analyzed the applied BIM-LCA workflows in detail. A total of 16 of the reviewed studies applied LCA during the early design stage. These studies used a manual or semiautomatic data exchange between the BIM models and LCA tools. In most cases, contemporary BIM-LCA workflows utilized conventional spreadsheets (e.g., Excel sheets in 16 cases). However, the analysis shows that an automated link between LCA and BIM can be achieved when overcoming the technical, organizational and informational issues discussed in the paper. This could enable the streamlining of LCA applications in design practice, and thus support the necessary improvements in the environmental performance of buildings.
Keywords:building information modeling (BIM), life cycle assessment (LCA), systematic literaturereview (SLR), environmental product declarations (EPD), workflow, bill of quantities (BoQ)
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:09.07.2020
Publisher:MDPI
Year of publishing:2020
Number of pages:str. 1-19
Numbering:Vol. 12, iss. 14
PID:20.500.12556/DiRROS-18315 New window
UDC:624
ISSN on article:2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su12145534 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:22362371 New window
Copyright:© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Note:Nasl. z nasl. zaslona; Opis vira z dne: 13. 7. 2020; Št. članka 5534;
Publication date in DiRROS:05.03.2024
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POTRČ OBRECHT, Tajda, RÖCK, Martin, HOXHA, Endrit and PASSER, Alexander, 2020, BIM and LCA integration : a systematic literature review. Sustainability [online]. 2020. Vol. 12, no. 14, p. 1–19. [Accessed 29 March 2025]. DOI 10.3390/su12145534. Retrieved from: https://dirros.openscience.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=18315
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Title:Sustainability
Shortened title:Sustainability
Publisher:MDPI
ISSN:2071-1050
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Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:38191
Name:Young researcher program
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Funding programme:FFG
Project number:864142

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Language:Slovenian
Keywords:informacijsko modeliranje stavb, analiza življenjskega cikla, sistematični pregled literature, okoljske deklaracije proizvodov, potek dela, popis količin


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