Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is essential to achieve a Net-Zero Carbon Built Environment and inform effective mitigation strategies for environmental impacts throughout a building's life cycle. However, collecting Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data and the Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) processes are complex and time-consuming. BIM-LCA integration enables automated quantity-take-off, supporting faster evaluati...
Europe's ambitious net-zero carbon targets compel the AEC sector to quickly adapt. Mandatory whole-life carbon declarations will require stakeholders to quantify and reduce environmental impacts using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). However, LCA is widely perceived as complex, time-consuming, and costly. Building Information Modelling (BIM) has the potential to streamline LCA processes (e.g., quantity take-off). R...
O Plano Geral de Drenagem de Lisboa é uma ambiciosa infraestrutura que irá mitigar os efeitos das cheias e alterações climáticas na cidade de Lisboa. É constituído por uma variedade de intervenções na rede de drenagem pluvial da cidade, a maioria subterrâneas. As obras mais emblemáticas são a escavação de dois túneis que atra‑ vessam a cidade e transferem água das chuvas entre bacias hidrográficas, aliviando a ...
Desde a publicação –no PTBIM 2022 – de um artigo sobre os desafios da implemen‑ tação do BIM no Plano Geral de Drenagem de Lisboa, registou‑se uma notável evolu‑ ção neste projeto. Com efeito, para além da conclusão do projeto e arranque da obra, com entrada em funcionamento da tuneladora no troço Campolide – Santa Apolónia, procedeu‑se ao desenvolvimento, implementação e exploração de várias ferramen‑ tas e té...
Purpose This study proposes an assessment framework for improving smart building performance in the broader context of smart city development, considering dimensions like environmental sustainability, building characteristics, intelligence, computation management and analytics. The framework is crafted to guide future research, aligning with the growing emphasis on sustainability and intelligence in evolving ur...
The third decade of this millennium has seen a growing interest in using the circular economy (CE) concept to achieve the broad goals of sustainable development. Still, like the latter, the former notion has different meanings to different audiences in general and in the construction sector in particular. This Brief Report aims to assess how the construction sector regards the CE concept, or more precisely, how...
O Ambiente e as Alterações Climáticas são temas que têm vindo a ganhar maior relevância junto da sociedade, no geral, tendo a Arquitetura um importante contributo a dar com vista a garantir a qualidade e a sustentabilidade do ambiente construído. Se no passado os edifícios tinham pouca climatização e integravam muitos materiais endógenos, repercutindo-se em baixos consumos energéticos, no presente os edifícios,...
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is widely accepted for evaluating a building's environmental footprint. Building Information Modelling (BIM) has become the go-to strategy for LCA during design. Still, despite BIM-LCA automating detailed quantity extraction, challenges persist, such as a lack of standardised geometry modelling and information management, as well as a common language between LCA and BIM data. This st...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled real-time monitoring of energy consumption in smart homes through sensors embedded in the surrounding environment. In the post-pandemic world, domestic energy management has gained importance due to increased work-from-home consumption, making data collection in a smart home a relevant IoT application with many potential energy savings. However, this information is diffi...
The economic and social impacts of robotic construction in Architecture, Engineering, and construction (AEC) are hard to assess and quantify without physical in situ testing, which is expensive and time-consuming This paper presents a methodology for the simulation of robotic construction technologies, namely drones, in a human-machine cooperation (HMC) using virtual (VR) and augmented (AR) reality environments...