As the industry move to dramatically lower the operational carbon of buildings, then the embodied carbon content of building materials is becoming more and more significant.ī. The following four screenshots show detailed guidance for:Ī. But there are not many (if any) commercial applications where all of this information is presented in context at the point of need. Designers regularly must balance performance, environmental and financial cost when it comes to building design. By starting with a blank object and configuring from scratchįig 4 - Each object may be configured onlineĪs an object is configured, each decision can be made with detailed guidance as to what the impact will be. By starting with an object from a previous job, orĬ. By starting with a pre-configured object from the National BIM Libraryī. An interactive visualisation of the model is displayed - familiar functionality like navigate (zoom, pan, orbit), object selection and show/hide is all available.įig 3 - A fully functional online BIM viewer using IFC as the data model helps the processĮach object selected can then be configured in terms of its materials. The type objects are displayed in a tree view and automatically classified (in this example by NRM). The second tab on the iCIM website is the main working area. Items such as the project location, the project details and the budget targets in terms of capital cost and carbon benchmarks can be set.įig 2 - The key information from the BIM is uploaded and a project dashboard is shown

Once at the website, project-level information may be entered. Fig 1 shows that the user logs on and clicks to upload the IFC model directly to the iCIM website.įig 1 - The journey starts in a BIM desktop software design tool - in this case Autodesk Revit At this stage, it is possible that only concept objects are used and no firm decisions on materials or manufacturers have been made. For this research Autodesk Revit was used, however the great thing about this project is all interoperability is through IFC, so there is absolutely no reason why this could not be Bentley, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks or any other design tool. The journey starts in the users BIM design tool of choice.

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