Study on Foliage in Green Building Systems - Its cost and Integration with BIM
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Lee, Hsien-Yang
Abstract
With the emphasis on environmental protection in recent years, green building has also become a popular and important topic. Greenery design not only plays a crucial role in green building certification systems, but also reduces the heat island effect and helps improve human health. After comparing most popular green building standards in the world, it is found that the Taiwanese green building standard, EEWH, specifically focuses on greenery design and make it an independent indicator, called “foliage.” The foliage indicator in EEWH mainly considers the carbon dioxide absorption amount of various types of plants, such as trees, bushes, and lawns. The foliage indicator also encourages the use of local plants and plants that can attract birds and butterflies by giving bonus scores in EEWH. This research aims to develop a system that can easily calculate the foliage scores of greenery design from Revit BIM models and the corresponding greenery cost. An optimization model for tree-based greenery design using the genetic algorithm was also developed. Finally, this research would discuss the use of different types of trees in greenery design and their corresponding costs and foliage scores. Whether the selected trees in greenery design are local or whether these trees can attract birds or butterflies was also considered in the discussion.
Subjects
greenery
foliage
genetic algorithm
SDGs
Type
thesis
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