Sheth, A Z; Price, A D F and Glass, J (2010) BIM and refurbishment of existing healthcare facilities. In: Egbu, C (ed.) Proceedings of 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, 6-8 September 2010, Leeds, UK.
Abstract
Towards the end of the 20th century a growing concern to save nature and natural resources promoted sustainability evolved as a major area for global concern. Moreover, an increasing awareness about sustainability in the healthcare sector and construction industry demands more tools for the development, execution, and assessment of projects from environment point of view. To support and assess sustainability, various researchers, governmental and non-governmental, developed several tools. It is expected that buildings will have a longer life (especially if constructed from 1980s onwards) because of improved building regulations, modern technologies, advanced tools, and new standards. Project goals, budgets, and clients' willingness towards developing a green facility determines the design team approach towards refurbishment, adoption of tools, and sustainability. Moreover, not all healthcare projects involve new construction; some are partly refurbished and/or extension to existing buildings, so the tools are considered in the context of existing facilities in this paper. Issues and drivers for refurbishment of existing healthcare facilities are discussed from a sustainability point of view. The need for existing healthcare facilities to remain operational during refurbishment projects presents a specific challenge during (re)development. A discussion of some of the widely accepted tools used to develop (sustainable) designs such as building information modelling (BIM) is presented. The methods include questionnaire survey, interviews, and site visits to hospitals. This work is output of analysis of the primary data collected to accomplish objectives of a three-year research project related to existing healthcare facilities, and reduction of their energy consumption and carbon emissions.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | building information model; energy; healthcare facility; refurbishment |
| Index terms: | questionnaire, energy consumption, construction industry, refurbishment project, carbon emission, interview, building regulation, building information modelling, survey, natural resource, design team |
| Subjects: | climate science, data collection methods, energy systems, professional practice, environmental resource management, infrastructure engineering, regulatory law, industry analysis, information systems |
| Topics: | Engineering Principles, Research Practice, Sustainability, Digital Applications, Legal Issues, Design Practice |
| Descriptive scope: | 5 PCTEA |
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