An Explorative Analysis of European Standards on Building Information Modelling

peer reviewedMany standards for Building Information Modelling (BIM) have been published and more are being prepared. Practitioners and academics often struggle to understand the still-evolving relationships between them and how they can support day-to-day activities. In this research we collect data on BIM standards developed by CEN/TC 442. The standards are presented in a series of prototype online dashboards and analysed to study how they are related to each other and to the different aspects. The results can help standardisation bodies, professionals, and academics understand how key concepts are covered in standards, and explore how they are linked to other domains

Integrated decision making in civil engineering, based on multi-criteria assessment and buildings’ certification

Significant investments are being made in the construction sector in order to raise the quality of the buildings and make them more sustainable and energy-efficient. The key aspect of these investments should be the purposeful optimization of the possible renovation and construction measures. However, this important matter usually is being pushed aside in favor of construction price and/or quality. Nevertheless, there are plenty of criteria that play a major role in building sustainable development. The main purpose of this study is to present a tool that combines multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods and building certification systems in order to make weighted decisions in complicated construction tasks. For this, a decision making model was developed with a focus on sustainability, buildings’ life cycle, MCDM methods, and building certification. The first section of this thesis, the introduction, discusses the importance of the investigated area, and the main objectives, tasks, and structure of the thesis. A literature review is presented in Section 2 – Theory. The main works in the area of sustainability, LCA, building certification, and MCDM are collected to show their role and importance and how they interact in the construction industry. Section 3 presents and discusses the main ideas and instructions of the proposed decision making model. Section 4 (Methodology) introduces the main existing and proposed techniques that I have used to implement the study. Sections 5 and 6 are the case studies, which demonstrate how the proposed methods can be used in practice. Final conclusions and recommendations are presented in Section 7.QC 20170209Funded by L.E. Lundberg foundatio

Evaluation of Influencing Factors on Great Britain‘S Export Values

Research purpose. The research aimed at identifying the main factors influencing export values in the region of Great Britain (GB) for the period of the last 30 years