Building Information Modeling or BIM has been widely applied to new construction projects, but is less used to used to support renovation activities. Building Information Modeling for Renovation and Refurbishment: A Practical Guide addresses that issue and provides a practical guide centered around well-defined use cases of applying BIM to demonstration projects.
The authors have worked on the European Union’s Horizon 2020 funded BIM-Speed project where they developed more than 20 such use cases with demonstrative implementations on real-world renovation projects. The use cases were also formalized as standard BuildingSmart International use cases.
The book provides a more accessible and general description of a selected number of the most important of these use cases for renovation practitioners. Additionally, the book will discuss requirements for information management and BIM implementation planning for renovation projects to allow for the seamless implementation of use cases on projects.
1. Building Renovation
2. Introduction
3. Current state of building renovations
4. Imagining another process
5. BIM as a way forward?
6. What this book is about
7. The Life-Cycle of Building Renovation
8. Local Context and Stakeholders
9. Technical Challenges
10. BIM Use cases
11. BIM Applications in the Renovation Life-Cycle
12. Status assessment of buildings - Generating BIMs from laser scans
13. Scan2BIM
14. Integrating building sensor based data collection with BIM
15. BIM to Building Energy model (BEM)
16. Model checks for testing the compliance of renovation options
17. Coordinating renovation design with clash detection
18. Estimating renovation costs with 5D BIM
19. Renovation work visualization with 4D BIM31
20. BIM Management
21. BIM Execution Planning for Renovation Projects
22. Common Data Environments for Renovation ProjectsIV
23. Conclusion
Professor Timo Hartmann is a professor in Civil Systems Engineering, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany. He develops state-of-the-art system visualization and simulation technologies in his research and practical work. Timo received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is an assistant specialty editor for the Construction Engineering and Management Journal. Sharon Susan Verghese is a research engineer on the BIM-Speed project. Sharon was responsible for developing BIM (Building Information Modeling) use cases for renovation that this book mainly will be built around. She has previous work experience on building systems design and project execution.
Jan-Derrick Braun is a project manager at HOCHTIEF ViCon GmbH, Germany. Within the EU-funded BIM-SPEED project, he played a key role in coordinating work package activities and contributing to the development of BIM-based renovation methodologies, training formats, and demonstration workflows. His work focuses on translating research outcomes into applicable methods for engineering teams and clients. Jessica Steinjan is a Building Information Modeling manager at HOCHTIEF ViCon GmbH, Germany. With a strong background in automated model checking, information requirements, and data modeling, she was one of the main authors of the BIM-SPEED methodologies and contributed to several key deliverables. Her work focuses on transforming research-based insights into practical tools and guidance for renovation projects.
