BIM energy analysis is indispensable and highly constructive for green construction!

Green construction is highly dominating construction industry in the current scenario. AEC professionals are taking great interest in the construction of green buildings which are understood as energy efficient buildings. The concept of green construction was nowhere to be seen in AEC industry a few decades back. But with a sudden upsurge in environmental awareness among AEC professionals, green construction is understood as an effective move towards this.  In other words worldwide concerns about environmental degradation that is largely due to construction, is eventually pushing the development of green buildings.

Green buildings are constructed for the fact that energy and environment can be saved. Multiple surveys have been conducted over the years which show that construction projects are having unfavorable impact on our natural environment. Research conducted on this area indicates that prompt construction is eventually accountable for a lot of environmental changes such as global warming and increase in Earth’s temperature. Drastic changes have been experienced in the climatic conditions and temperature in the past few years which is largely due to speedy construction that is carried out globally. Rapid construction is accountable for deforestation which is seriously not a good sign for our ecological system.

All these factors are ultimately impelling the construction of green buildings. There is no set definition of a green building so far but we can consider a building as a green building if AEC professionals have utilized minimum energy, resources, materials, and money in its construction. And in future it should use minimum energy for dealing with its every day energy requirements.

For developing such buildings AEC professionals have to optimizeBIM technology in its construction. That means building design should be developed with the support of BIM software such as Revit. BIM energy analysis is conducted for the building in question much before it is constructed in the real world. Energy analysis is nothing but inspecting a building design for understanding energy requirements of a building and for this an energy analytical model is developed.  An energy analytical model contains all the fundamental building information such as materials used, design of different building disciplines and geographical information of the area. All this information helps in constructing energy efficient buildings.