TY - JOUR
T1 - Leveraging building information models in IFC to perform energy analysis in openstudio®
AU - Ramaji, Issa J.
AU - Messner, John I.
AU - Leicht, Robert Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank our collaborator on this project incliding Dinghao Wu, John Yen, Rick Mistrick, Chong Zhou, Pengwei Lan, Yifan Liu, Yu Fu, and Sarith Subramaniam. This paper is based upon work supported by the Consortium of Building Energy Innovation (CBEI) sponsored by the U.S. department of energy under capital award under Award Number DE-EE0004261. The views and opinions of the authors expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S Department of Energy or CBEI.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 ASHRAE (www.ashrae.org).
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Building Information Modeling (BIM) can enable frequent and rapid evaluation of energy performance of buildings throughout the design phase of a project. The most widely accepted data schema for a BIM is the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) schema, which is an open standard format for representing information about a project. To leverage an IFC model for energy modeling, geometric information in a model must be translated to an equivalent energy simulation analytical model structure. A workflow is presented to address this need by automating information transformations from the IFC model with geometric and attribute information into an energy analysis model structure in the OpenStudio® energy performance simulation platform.
AB - Building Information Modeling (BIM) can enable frequent and rapid evaluation of energy performance of buildings throughout the design phase of a project. The most widely accepted data schema for a BIM is the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) schema, which is an open standard format for representing information about a project. To leverage an IFC model for energy modeling, geometric information in a model must be translated to an equivalent energy simulation analytical model structure. A workflow is presented to address this need by automating information transformations from the IFC model with geometric and attribute information into an energy analysis model structure in the OpenStudio® energy performance simulation platform.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85048687693
SN - 2574-6308
SP - 251
EP - 258
JO - ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA Building Simulation Conference
JF - ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA Building Simulation Conference
T2 - 2016 ASHRAE/IBPSA-USA Building Simulation Conference: Building Performance Modeling, SimBuild 2016
Y2 - 10 August 2016 through 12 August 2016
ER -