BIM-based Generation of Hydraulic Distribution Systems for Non-Residential Buildings

Abstract

The Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology has significant potential to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of building construction. An important step towards enhancing the sustainability of buildings is to reduce the embodied emissions in the building and its installed technologies. This poster presents a novel approach leveraging Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data through the self-developed bim2sim process to design a full hydraulic distribution system and estimate its embodied emissions. By transforming the IFC geometry into a graph network and applying Steiner tree optimization, we develop an ecologically and economically optimized distribution system, including hydraulic component selection, sizing of these components and embodied emission estimation. This approach not only automates the design processes but also contributes to the sustainability goals by providing an estimation of the embodied carbon emissions during the planning phase.