BIM PERSPECTIVES ON CONSTRUCTION WASTE REDUCTION

Recycling

Construction and demolition waste represents a growing environmental, social, and economic problem, and has become a priority for European and worldwide policies. The early quantification of construction waste is essential for the minimisation of its production and the improvement of waste management. This requires the development of design-based tools that enable a better understanding of the expected waste produced during the construction phase. Building Information Modelling (BIM) methodologies have gained recognition in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) sector, largely due to their capacity for data simulation, storage, and management during the building design phase. This study presents a software application, called WE-BIM Add-in, to quantify construction waste (CW) while designing the BIM model in Revit. A validated CW quantification model which enables waste types and quantities per building element to be predicted in detail according to the ...

2011

Journal of the Civil Engineering Forum, 2021

The tremendous quantity of waste produced from construction and demolition is a major cause of environmental degradation. This quantity tends to increase due to the rapid growth of building development and renovation. Meanwhile, construction waste management is a complex and costly process due to the fact that it requires different kinds of resources such as money, land, and technology. It is often ignored by all project participants even though it is an essential element of construction project management. However, it has been discovered that modern construction waste management is structured based on the concept of circular economy which focuses on eliminating construction waste and maximizing the value of materials. Therefore, this research proposes an innovative framework to implement the circular economy using building information modeling (BIM) in order to improve the construction waste management process. This involved a thorough review of past literature to identify the impl...

2020

1Senior Lecturer, Department of Building, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria 2Postgraduate Student, Department of Building, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract The volume of material waste generated during the delivery of a constructed facility is the reflection of the expertise and conformability to conventional practices. This study emanated from the necessity of capturing the currency of utilising Building Information Modelling (BIM) for construction material waste management (CMWM) on building sites to enhancing the sustainability of the built environment in the study area. The survey research approach was adopted with a structured questionnaire, while the data were analysed using the relative level of use index and mean score. The assessment of the level of use and the potentials offered by BIM tools for CMWM, as perceived by the Archite...

Sustainability

The use of various tools for construction waste management throughout the planning and design (P&D) stage has several advantages. According to some research, building information modelling, or BIM, could be a valuable tool for predicting waste. This paper discusses how BIM could be used for pre-empting waste and reducing the course of the planning and design process of constructing a building. In Malaysia, a questionnaire survey of 340 construction experts was undertaken. Simultaneously, a regression analysis was carried out in order to determine the impact of BIM on the management of construction waste during the planning and design stage. This research could help many stakeholders in the construction industry to recognise various aspects of waste management, beginning with the planning and design stage of a project, which can be represented by designing a model that can be applied to mitigate waste during the construction of a building.

The amount of waste generated from construction and demolition (C&D) procedures are huge. Development waste is mainly generated due to improper design, poor procurement, planning, and inefficient handling of materials, raw material residuals, and unexpected changes in building design. Building Information Modelling (BIM) can productively deal with C&D waste by moving away from plan issues, changes, and tuning. This paper examines the capacity of BIM innovation to support the architecture plan and development cycles for stewardship of C&D waste. Specifically, BIM-based methodologies that can reduce, reuse, reuse, and stewardship of development waste through conflict recognition, exit; The order of development exercises, the order of site use, and construction are proposed in this paper. Today, development exercises with potential climate damage are largely conducted to respond to the needs of the rapidly growing population. In the development zone, which is one of the main areas that follow with interest the innovative turns of events, steps must be taken to ensure ecological balance in the world. The goal of experts is not only to create a structure according to her plan, but also to consciously agree to the basic requirements of nature. Various limits such as incorrect plan choices, adequate plans to get the work done, unexpected climatic resistances, and surrender in the supply of elements can directly or implicitly affect the development reaction, resulting in the lifetime of construction waste on the construction site. These wastes negatively affect the living and nonliving climate. It is not actually reasonable for the development waste generated during the development cycle to be completely killed; however it is possible to control and recover this waste. Thus, creative applications are important in the field of development. This investigation investigates the ability of BIM applications to prevent/reduce waste in the development interaction. For this reason; Articles discussing the causes of wasted lifespan in the development area and the relationship between BIM innovation and development wastage, board exercises examined and assessment of discoveries gained. It is proposed to create BIM applications to prevent/reduce waste on the construction site.

Sustainability

Construction and demolition waste (C&DW) contribute to approximately 30% of the total waste generation worldwide, by which heterogeneous ecological impacts, such as resource depletion, global warming, and land degradation, are engendered. Despite ongoing research efforts to minimize construction waste via the Building Information Modeling (BIM)-aided design, there is a paucity of research on integrating BIM in demolition waste management (DWM). This study investigates prominent barriers and future research directions toward the wider adoption of BIM in C&DWM by conducting a systematic literature review. First, this study identifies the barriers that hinder the implementation of C&DWM in Australia; then, it explores the benefits and challenges of leveraging BIM applications for C&DWM. The findings suggest that, for existing buildings without up-to-date design drawings, it is imperative to improve the accuracy of data capturing and object recognition techniques to overcome the bottlen...

2007

High-rise building is characterized by its repetitive design in floor plan which is compartmentalized into individual units. The design of high-rise buildings is different from other forms of residential and commercial buildings because of the repetition of construction and the cycle-time for the completion of each floor. This paper describes research that has been carried out to investigate how information modelling and an optimization technique known as Design Structure Matrix, DSM, application can increase the design efficiency of ...

Sustainability

The benefits and barriers of implementing building information modeling (BIM) and sustainability have all been the subject of numerous studies that have been performed both separately and in pairs. Despite this, there are presently no studies that include both of these ideas. This paper aims to integrate various technologies, methodologies, and concepts to close this gap specific to the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sectors by outlining how concepts could coexist and support one another. To that goal, a thorough literature study was conducted to determine how recently academics had investigated the synergies between these fields. Results point to synergies, mostly the benefits and barriers of BIM in the sustainable construction sector. After the literature review, 46 identified factors associated with benefits and 21 factors associated with barriers were obtained. Among the factors, “Promoting carbon emission reduction” and “Enhancing material wastage reduction” ...

Journal of Technology Management and Business

Nowadays, green environment is a great concern in the construction industry because of its rapid growth in the construction sector and its direct connection with the detrimental impact on the environment. The construction sector contributes about 23% of air pollution, 50% of the climatic change, 40% of drinking water pollution, and 50% of landfill wastes. Developing country like Bangladesh did not use any proper waste estimation process or tools which can efficiently estimate the volume of materials needed for a construction project which always results in wasting excessive materials. Waste estimation can determine the volume of materials even in the pre-construction stage and thus reducing waste, cost and environmental impact. In the light of the gap of existing tools and methods to estimate the waste amount, Building Information Modelling (BIM) based system plays a vital role to estimate construction waste in the region of the rising amount of construction waste. In this paper, cl...