Integrating BIM and Web Map Service (WMS) for Green Building Certification
Journal
Procedia Engineering
Journal Volume
164
Pages
503-509
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
Abstract
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is one of the most popular and globally recognized green building standards. In LEED, evaluating the sustainable effects of site location and transportation to the ecosystem and human life is a critical and difficult task. Credits regarding these matters require experience, time, labor, and manual calculations. In recent years, many studies have been conducted to enhance the application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the LEED certification. However, the application of BIM to LEED's site location and transportation analysis is usually considered impractical due to the lack of a powerful map application in present BIM products. The aim of this research is to develop a framework for the integration of BIM and Web Map Service (WMS) technologies for LEED's location and transportation analysis. Using Autodesk Revit API and Google Maps API as the development tools, this research converts the integration model into a LEED-BIM plugin in Autodesk Revit to streamline the certification process of site location and transportation analysis in LEED. © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Subjects
BIM; Building Information Modeling; Green Building certification; LEED
Other Subjects
Building codes; Buildings; Energy efficiency; Environmental design; Information theory; Location; Web services; Building Information Model - BIM; Certification process; Development tools; Green building standards; Green buildings; Integration models; Leadership in energy and environmental designs; Transportation analysis; Architectural design
Type
conference paper