Together with the program, users may work together with friendly surroundings and enables users to build their models with precision and with comprehensive analysis. Finally, the possible applications of BIM data rich models in sustainable design will be deduced and illustrated.Autodesk Ecotect Analysis 2011 gets the power to import information from gbXML format.

Then strategies to approach a sustainable building design will be illustrated.

First, main concepts of BIM technology are presented. In this paper, analysis of the implementation of BIM in sustainable design activities is presented. Relying on powerful parametric-object based-engines and comprehensive integrated database structures, BIM has a great potential to offer significant enhancements to sustainable design aspects. Within this context, Building Information Modeling (BIM) is increasingly being looked upon as a robust tool to achieve that target. Still facing problems, CAD technologies are getting closer every day to that target. And all of this would be done while sharing a design seamlessly across disciplines, enabling design teams to explore more options, with more accuracy in less time. Along the way, other aspects of a building, such as how well a building uses daylight, how its materials l affect the planet, and how much it will cost to build, could be tracked and optimized. Under optimum conditions, simulations and design tools would be well integrated that each time an architect altered any design aspect, the building’s predicted environmental performance would be updated and displayed instantly. But since the advent of computers, digital tools had an ever growing role in performing engineering simulations and rapidly exploring new design options to reach the best solution.

Designers historically relied on physical models and manual calculations to optimize building designs for optimal energy and resources consumption and maximizing user comfort. The most important decisions regarding a building's sustainable features are made during the design stages.

The increasing awareness of the accelerating rate of depletion of natural resources, climate change and carbon dioxide emissions from the built environment is resulting in the high level of demand for sustainable buildings.

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