A Study of Energy Simulation Integrated Process by Automated Extraction Module of the BIM Geometry Module

• Main Authors: Jun-Woo Choi, Yong-Joon Jun, Jin-ha Yoon, Young-hak Song, Kyung-Soon Park
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2019-06-01
• Series: Energies
• Subjects: building information modeling; automation; interoperability; spatial information; automatic extraction
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/13/2461

Despite the international trend of actively utilizing BIM in the field of energy simulation, it is difficult to actively utilize BIM in domestic certification-related practice. As a result, the work process is not integrated and the work efficiency is reduced, such as the occurrence of redundant tasks. In this paper, the integrated process based on the BIM geometry information automated extraction module was presented and its effectiveness was reviewed and verified through self-developed automation module and uniformity and error-causing analysis. The construction of an integrated process through automatic configuration information extraction has the advantages of reducing the workload, enabling additional tasks through module function expansion, sharing information through the web, and ease of service manufacture. In addition, an experiment comparing the data of automatic and manual calculations with three subjects confirmed that automatic calculation database through automation module can produce a more reliable and uniform database with a lower proportion of human error than the manual calculation module. This not only improves the reliability of the energy simulation itself, but also reduces the human and temporal loads that occur during the post-simulation data verification process.