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A Framework for Integrating Sustainability Estimation with Concepts of Rules of Building Measurement

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Data-Driven Modeling for Sustainable Engineering (ICEASSM 2017)

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Abstract

BIM promises improvement in project delivery efficiencies such as reduction in costs and errors and timely completion. Benefits are also expected in sustainable construction aspect with research efforts being extended to sustainable design and assessment. These efforts are still been explored for the purposes of unifying quantification methodologies, the standardization of system boundaries, terms of references and sustainability measures. Embodied energy and CO2 are two common measures that have been widely used in the construction sector. Although a number calculation system exists, they are not useful to the iterations that occur at the early project life cycle stages. At the procurement stage, professionals often rely on schedules and bill of quantities with no reference to sustainability credentials. It is therefore important to integrate sustainability measure with concepts in standard measurement methods. As such, we propose a framework to integrate sustainability credential with the concepts in rule of building measurement. We conclude that this framework can be applicable to any rule of building measurement and it is implementable in a computer programmable environment.

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  1. School of Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford, UK

    Akponanabofa Henry Oti & Henry Fonbeyin Abanda

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  1. LCOMS/ENIM, University of Lorraine, Metz, France

    Kondo H. Adjallah

  2. Institut Charles Delaunay, University of Technology of Troyes, Troyes, France

    Babiga Birregah

  3. School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK

    Henry Fonbeyin Abanda

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Oti, A.H., Abanda, H.F. (2020). A Framework for Integrating Sustainability Estimation with Concepts of Rules of Building Measurement. In: Adjallah, K., Birregah, B., Abanda, H. (eds) Data-Driven Modeling for Sustainable Engineering. ICEASSM 2017. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 72. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13697-0_13

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