An Integrated Assessment Framework of Economic, Environmental, and Human Health Impacts Using Scan-to-BIM and Life-Cycle Assessment in Existing Buildings
Publication: Journal of Management in Engineering
Volume 39, Issue 5
Abstract
The significance of environmental management of existing buildings in reducing the environmental impact of the construction sector is increasingly emphasized. However, life-cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate a building’s environmental burden requires considerable time and costs for the collection and interpretation of data needed for analysis. Therefore, this study proposed an integrated assessment framework of economic, environmental, and human health impacts using scan-to-building information modeling (BIM) and LCA in existing buildings. To verify the proposed framework, a case study was conducted. A BIM model with an error rate of 1.442% can be automatically generated from the three-dimensional (3D) point cloud using parametric algorithm. The total cost for the target case was calculated at USD 162,769, and the environmental cost accounted for the largest percentage at 97.15%. The developed framework in this study holds significance because it enables the automated assessment of economic, environmental, and human health impacts of existing buildings through the integration of BIM and LCA.
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Data Availability Statement
Some of all data, models, or code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MIST, Ministry of Science, and ICT) (NRF-2021R1F1A1049692).
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Received: Mar 27, 2023
Accepted: Apr 25, 2023
Published online: Jul 10, 2023
Published in print: Sep 1, 2023
Discussion open until: Dec 10, 2023
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Benefit cost ratios
- Buildings
- Business management
- Computer vision and image processing
- Economic factors
- Engineering fundamentals
- Existing buildings
- Financial management
- Health hazards
- Life cycles
- Methodology (by type)
- Practice and Profession
- Public administration
- Public health and safety
- Structural engineering
- Structures (by type)
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