Supply Chain Collaborative BIM System for Minimising Construction Waste in Design

英国建筑业产生32%的垃圾填埋场废物（WRAP, 2007）。尽管现有的研究表明，废物策略的最佳形式是在建筑设计阶段最好地实现最小化，但目前尚无设计师和承包商可以使用的工具来成功地预测和减少设计阶段的建筑废物。该项目旨在开发一个使用早期供应链参与（ESCI）的智能BIM系统，通过设计所有6个废物光谱，从整体层面解决问题。这些包括(i)在设计阶段预测数量和确定废物来源，（ii）材料再利用和回收，（iii）材料优化（iv）非现场施工，(v)废物效率采购，（vi）解构和灵活性。BIM系统使用创新的数据挖掘和知识发现技术以及基于启发式的搜索优化。它是关于在设计中协作最小化浪费，而不是在浪费发生后进行管理。

The UK construction industry generates 32% of landfill wastes (WRAP, 2007). Despite existing research that the best form of waste strategy is minimization which can be best achieved during design stage of a building, there is currently no tool that designers and contractors can use to successfully predict and reduce construction waste at design phase. The project aims to develop an intelligent BIM system using early supply chain involvement (ESCI) to tackle the problem at holistic level, by designing at all the 6 waste spectrums. These include (i) prediction of quantities and identifying sources of waste at design stage, (ii) material re-use and recovery, (iii) material optimisation (iv) off-site construction, (v) waste efficient procurement and, (vi) deconstruction and flexibility. The BIM system uses innovative Data Mining and Knowledge discovery techniques with heuristic-based search optimization. It is about collaborative waste minimization in design and not waste management after it had occurred.