BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design

Francois Levy, AIA, AIAA,is a registered Texas architect and researcher. He holds an MArch and an MS in architectural engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, where he has been lecturing since 1998. Mr. Levy has been practicing architecture since 1993, and established his own firm in 1997. His architectural projects have attracted regional and national press, including Dwell magazine and HGTV. In addition to leading CAD and BIM seminars to professionals, his areas of research interest are sustainable architecture, cooling through passive ventilation, and space architecture.

Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Building Information Models and Modeling ix The cost of buildings ix See, change x BIM for the rest of us xi What this book is, and isn't xii A word on the case studies xiii 1 BIM and Sustainable Design 1 The emergence of Building Information Modeling 1 BIM for design 6 High-performance architecture 16 Case study: Moonrise Ranch 23 2 Design Software 29 BIM applications 29 Complementary software 38 Further reading 49 Case Study: Parameterized Hauer Curtain Wall 49 3 Site Analysis 55 Developing a site model 57 Analyzing the site 65 Case Study: House in Sonoma 74 4 Massing Analysis 79 Creating massing models 79 Perimeter/volume ratios: optimizing for envelope quantity 83 Confi rming desirable and undesirable views 85 Preliminary cost and feasibility analysis 87 Preliminary passive heating and cooling design data 89 Case Study: New High School 100 5 Solar Geometry and Daylighting 105 Shade from the sun 106 Daylighting 116 Case Study: Ross Street House 128 6 Passive Cooling 133 Appropriate responses for local climates 135 Rules of thumb and sizing guidelines for cooling strategies 139 Case Study: Hadlow College Rural Regeneration Centre 153 7 Passive Heating 159 Rules of thumb and sizing guidelines for heating strategies 160 Whole-building heat loss 162 Whole-building heat gain 170 Case Study: Battelle Darby Creek Environmental Center 177 8 Onsite Energy Systems 183 Solar photovoltaics 185 Azimuth and elevation 192 Solar thermal systems 192 Wind turbines 197 Case Study: Cascadia Center for Sustainable Design and Construction 200 9 Building Hydrology 205 Site design for water 206 Rainwater harvesting 209 Plumbing fi xture effi ciency 214 Sizing constructed wetlands 215 Gutter sizing 220 Case Study: Bee Ranch 221 10 Materials and Waste 225 Material takeoffs and cost calculations 225 Advanced framing 232 Sheet materials 237 Preliminary life cycle analysis 239 LEED material calculations 243 Case Study: Loblolly House 245 11 Collaboration 249 Imported backgrounds 249 Exporting fi les 251 Project coordination 264 Case Study: Paisano Senior Housing 272 Afterword 275 Bibliography and References 279 Index 283