BIM, Sustainable Construction and Integrated Approaches to Project Delivery

摘要

Sustainable construction and Building Information Modeling (BIM) are independent trends that share a common goal - reduce waste. Driving both trends are recent reports about the alarming rate of raw material depletion; wasteful building systems, inefficient processes, and redundant work. A holistic approach that considers the site, building performance, and occupancy type simultaneously is recommended for the design and building of projects requiring sustainable construction and BIM. A holistic approach integrates the team, project delivery method, and technology. Results from an industry survey on project delivery methods for sustainable projects revealed that integrated approaches to project delivery are consistently more effective at meeting, and often exceeding, the owner's sustainability requirements. Participants in follow up interviews to the survey attributed their success at achieving the sustainable requirements to an integrated approach for project delivery. BIM provides project teams with the means to integrate input from all stakeholders for evaluation and informed decision making. The results in this study reflect the current state of practices that impact traditional roles in project delivery.