Concept of Sustainable Development of the Construction Sector Based on BIM-Technology

Abstract

Abstract The paper explores the relevance and defines the role of BIM technology fitting into the general concept of sustainable construction development. Summing up the analysis of scientific publications, the authors note that at the current stage of BIM technology development there is no common idea of its staged progression. Further, the authors suggest the overall IBM evolution model in the construction sector showing the individual stages. Because sustainable construction development is inconceivable without environmental aspect, a special role in the new model is given to environmental monitoring: first, at each stage of construction modeling, second, as a suggested new model stage identified as 7D, where all environmental support information will be accumulated subsequently to become the basis for optimizing the environmental parameters of construction and operation of a building or facility. The authors further suggest considering reconstruction of a structural system not as a conventional lifetime stage in the overall BIM model, but as a new lifecycle of a previously operated system with all stages characteristic of new construction. The paper underlines that the new understanding of the BIM concept makes it an integral part of the construction process and a strategy of successfully arranging construction operations.