Student Name: ATHUL S VIJAYAKUMAR
Guide Name: Sivakumar S, Associate Professor, CE, GEC Barton Hill
Project Area: CONSTRUCTION
Year: 2020 , Duration: 1
Climate change and global warming are a pressing concern the world faces today. The
construction industry accounts for about 36% of the global energy use and 39% of energyrelated
carbon dioxide emissions annually. Hence it is of supreme importance to take critical
measures to ensure CO2 reduction from the design phase of the constructions.
Building Information Modelling (BIM)has been successfully implemented in evaluating the
constructions at a very early stage. Parameters such as time, cost etc. have been used widely in
the AEC industry. Virtual Reality (VR) is also been used nowadays to solve various limitations
within the construction sector.
This study aims in developing a framework to integrate 6D BIM and immersive VR for
sustainable building design. This guide the end user to select an ecofriendly material from the
given list of materials through the method of immersive virtual reality. This eventually helps
in reduction of carbon footprint in the atmosphere, which is being the most environmental
challenge in the decade. A residential building under construction was adopted for the study.
The 6D BIM was developed using Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Naviswork Manage
and Trimple SketchUp. Autodesk Insight 360 was used for the energy analysis of the building
and Unity 3D was used for the visualisation of the integrated framework.
Keywords: BIM, VR, Sustainable Building, Energy Analysis
