Adoption of 4D BIM in Relation to Sustainable Building Design

Abstract

The prime focus of this research is to develop a utilization process of 4D BIM for container architecture, especially for the design, sustainable building, and construction time schedule. The supported knowledge of sustainable building design forms the integral concept for this research. In detail, the term sustainable building means container architecture used for decision-making throughout the design model using BIM, and the application of BIM further supported the development of the research methodology and framework. Thus, two research methods form the quantitative and qualitative methods. The literature review concerning sustainable building, container architecture and building information modelling is developed as a quantitative method, and the case study approach forms the qualitative method in developing the framework for the utilization process of 4D BIM. In the utilization process, the framework developed for renovating container architecture is a new topic yet to have professionally emerged in construction. Although, an existing framework is available for container architecture based on new construction highlighted in the literature review. As a result of the developed framework, five theories are adopted from the discussion. The first theory for the limitations of container architecture (planning phase), the second theory is finding a problem-solving approach (planning phase), the third theory is model development (design phase), the fourth theory is BIM quantity extraction (execution phase), and the fifth theory is developing a construction time schedule. In conclusion, the developed framework made the research successful because a construction time schedule for the renovation of container architecture yielded a case study building of the BRLO craft beer warehouse to execute within six months, which is significantly efficient to cost and time.

Keywords: 4D (Fourth Dimensions), BIM (Building Information Modelling), Container Architecture, Design, and Sustainable Building.