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Application of BIM Integrated LCA for Sustainable Habitat—A Review

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Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials

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It is strongly agreed by many researchers and policymakers to lower the global warming potential (GWP) largely. Using the life cycle assessment (LCA) concept will address this problem in a better and sustainable manner. Even though it is realised to reduce the life cycle environmental impacts at the initial design stage, but the comprehensive LCA application is controlled by the uncertainties in the selection of the type of design and material. In this paper, an extensive review has been carried out to know the implementation of BIM in LCA studies. Various BIM-enabled LCA tools were studied and their pros and cons were extracted. It is identified that a considerable amount of research is done in implementing the BIM for all the LCA stages except the recycling stage. Some of the important observations made from the review are (1) an integrated procurement process to be implemented to link with the BIM. (2) Development of linking software, which is free from interoperability issues between BIM and LCA, various simulation software.

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    Subbarao Yarramsetty, M. V. N. Sivakumar & P. Anand Raj

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Yarramsetty, S., Sivakumar, M.V.N., Anand Raj, P. (2020). Application of BIM Integrated LCA for Sustainable Habitat—A Review. In: Pancharathi, R., Sangoju, B., Chaudhary, S. (eds) Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 68. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3361-7_11

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