Nuttasit Somboonwit. Development of a health facility building information model Ministry of Public Helath for measurement and improvement of energy performance. Master's Degree(Information Management on Environments and Resources ). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2006.
Development of a health facility building information model Ministry of Public Helath for measurement and improvement of energy performance
Abstract:
The main purpose of this study was to develop a health facility building information
model from a health facility building template design for measurement and improvement
of energy performance for the Design and Construction Division (DCD), Ministry of
Public Health. The integration of tools used in this study included Autodesk® Revit®
Building chosen as the Building Information Modeling (BIM) system to develop a
health facility building information model. Green Building StudioTM was chosen as the
tool to measure and analyze the building energy performance.
A template design of the OPD building DCD number 3130/2526 was chosen to
be the research example. Its drawings and specifications have been defined, translated
and created into the Revit Families and implemented in a project to complete the health
facility building model. The research example information model and its seven-rotated
orientations were measured for their energy performance by Green Building StudioTM.
The rotation which had the best energy performance results was further building energy
performance tested by changing building components and adding sunshading devices.
The results reflected that even the same building placed in different ways of
orientation causes extensively different building energy performances, and the
orientation that positioned the most opaque and narrowest side facing the sun-tempering
direction was the one that had the best building energy performance. Changing the
building envelope components and materials caused just a little better result, but adding
the sunshading devices produced a massively better result, which was the largest
reduction of energy usage. In conclusion, two types of information systems that need to
be studied and implemented diligently are Building Information Modeling (BIM)
systems and building energy analysis tools. Custom-built systems for Thais will be
useful, convenient, precise, and greatly beneficial in environment-conscious building
design for Thai architects.