Let’s design more sustainably!

Project details

Full project title: Let’s design more sustainably! A novel approach to automated life cycle design for prefabricated buildings

Duration: 1 August 2023-31 July 2025

Funded by: UWE Bristol

Project lead: Karina Silverio

Partner: Agile Homes

Project summary

The integration of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with Building Information Modelling (BIM) offers significant potential for automated and real-time environmental impact analysis throughout the design process. However, current approaches often focus on early design stages and lack consideration for prefabricated buildings, which have substantial sustainability benefits.

This project aims to address these limitations by developing a framework that integrates BIM-based LCA with generative design for real-time design optimisation of prefabricated buildings. Key objectives include identifying BIM modelling requirements and essential LCA data, analysing current practices and challenges in BIM-LCA integration for prefabricated projects, and leveraging generative design for design optioneering. The framework is to be tested and validated through a real-life pilot project to ensure practical applicability.