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Extending IFC to support thermal comfort prediction during design
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Date Issued
12 July 2019
Date Available
08T10:51:36Z October 2019
Abstract
During the early design stage, designers often rely on general rules of thumb to make critical decisions about the geometry, construction systems and materials without fully evaluating their effects on indoor thermal environment requirements and constraints. Currently, reviewing a design’s sustainability requires designers to spend a significant amount of time manually extracting Thermal Comfort (TC) data from BIMs because of the tedious nature of this task. This paper is motivated by the absence of a standard method and a schema for extracting the necessary data for an automated TC assessment of building designs. The aim is to generate a reusable and retrievable set of Exchange Requirement’s for BIM-based BTCS to facilitate efficient data extraction and exchanges from design models using the IFC file format. Furthermore, we develop an MVD mechanism that provides a structured framework for the definition and exchange of the target data as a step towards standardisation and production of BTCS related information, the results from which contribute to a proposed MVD. The application of the MVD in building design has the potential to improve the early-stage TC assessment of design alternatives. Further, it could reduce the time required to conduct the assessment, increase the reproducibility of results, and formalises the method used.
Sponsorship
Science Foundation Ireland
University College Dublin
Other Sponsorship
Department of Education of the Kingdom Saudi Arabia
Type of Material
Conference Publication
Publisher
European Council on Computing in Construction
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
Part of
Proceedings of the 2019 European Conference for Computing in Construction
ISBN
9781910963371
ISSN
2684-1150
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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