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European Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD) defined a target as all new constructed buildings within the EU region must be a zero-energy building by the end of 2020. Furthermore, all European countries must ensure the minimum comfort threshold in energy calculations. Reducing energy consumption and improving indoor comfort, including visual and thermal comfort, can contribute to economic benefits. However, the main problem is the exitance of conflicts among visual comfort, thermal comfort, energy consumption and life cycle cost. To solve the abovementioned problem and to fulfil the EPBD’s target, this study aims to apply an integration between BIM, optimization and Analytical Hierarchy Process as a multi-criteria decision-making method on an office building in Sweden. Accordingly, 3 types of windows and 5 types of external wall, ground floor and external roof constructions were specified as optimization variables. The combination between the optimization variables generated 375 design alternatives. The performance of all 375 design alternatives were evaluated with respect to visual comfort, thermal comfort, energy consumption and life cycle cost. Later, AHP was used to find a trade-off design alternative. The results show that the combination between window type 1, external wall type 5, ground floor type 1 and external roof type 5 is the trade-off design alternative. Furthermore, the results show the integration enables to solve the abovementioned conflicts and to fulfil the EPBD’s target.
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Total energy consumption comprised the energy need for space heating, cooling, domestic hot water, electricity need for lighting, ventilation and office equipment.
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modeFRONTIER has various of nodes including logic nodes, data nodes, file nodes, application nodes, script nodes, CAD nodes, CAE nodes and networking nodes. Nodes are executable components, which have data and accomplish some transformations over the data, later forward the data to the next node [26]. DOSBatch node is one of the available script nodes.
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The present study was accomplished as part of a PhD project, financed by Knowledge Foundation. Authors appreciate greatly for their contributions.
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Jalilzadehazhari, E., Johansson, P. (2019). Integrating BIM, Optimization and a Multi-criteria Decision-Making Method in Building Design Process. In: Mutis, I., Hartmann, T. (eds) Advances in Informatics and Computing in Civil and Construction Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00220-6_43
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