Life Cycle Assessment of Structure Using Revit and Tally Plugin Software

Abstract

The modern digital tools based on Building Information Modelling [BIM] provide the potential to facilitate environment performance assessments of buildings. Various tools that use a BIM model for automatic quantity take off as basis Life Cycle Assessment [LCA] have been developed recently. This research simplifies the calculation of the initial embodied energy for commercial office buildings. The result is improved integration of Life Cycle Assessment of building materials into the early stages of the building design process. This thesis research proposes that BIM will make calculating building material quantities easier to simplify LCA calculations, to improve their integration into existing sketch design phase practices, and building design decisions. A 3D model is developed in Revit architecture software, the study is carried out to know the impact of materials on the environment by means of mass, acidification potential, eutrophication potential, global warming potential, ozone depletion potential, smog formation potential, primary energy demand, non-renewable energy demand, renewable enery demand to understand impact materials on environment, the function of BIM and corresponding data control stages of LCA.