Adopting Building Information Modeling (BIM) for the Development of Smart Buildings: A Review of Enabling Applications and Challenges

Table 4

Review cases of BIM-based smart buildings in the building life cycle.

Project phases	Building types	Application areas	Country/regions	BIM tools	References
Planning and design phase	A two-story RC building frame	Automated clash resolution for reinforcement steel design	Not defined	Autodesk Revit, PKPM	[68, 81]
	Residential/commercial/administrative/industrial housing	Planning utility infrastructure requirements	New Cairo, Egypt	Not defined	[45]
	The demolition/deconstruction of a former industrial building	The reuse of steel	Southern Adelaide, Australia	Not defined	[71]
Construction phase	Highway construction	Cost/schedule estimates	Seoul, Korea	Revit, SketchUp	[57]
	Bridge	Cost and time management	Al-Buhayrah Governorate, Egypt	Tekla Structures	[56]
	Strawbale house and concrete/brick homes	Energy analysis and construction cost calculation	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Revit, Green Building Design Studio	[77]
	Precast concretes	Dimensional and surface quality assessment	Not defined	Not defined	[76]
	Residential construction	On-site assembly services in prefabricated construction	Hong Kong, China	Revit	[73]
	Apartment	Resource-constrained scheduling	Hefei, China	Revit	[75]
	Residential block	Automatic replanning of lifting paths for robotized tower cranes	Singapore	Not defined	[52]
Operation and maintenance phase	Auditorium	Automatic generation of semantically rich as-built BIM	Not defined	Revit	[78]
	1361 blocks of densely distributed buildings	Automatic building information model reconstruction	Hong Kong, China	Not defined	[79]
	Airport	Enhance operational efficiencies through the ABIM framework	Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, South America, and North America	Not defined	[47]
	Smart home objects	Help end-users to experience daily activity in a virtual environment	Not defined	Not defined	[59]
	Office buildings	Improve indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and energy efficiency	Barcelona, Spain	Revit, Ecotect, Rhino/Grasshopper	[60]
	Multipurpose twelve-story building	Building fire prevention and disaster relief	Northern Taiwan	Revit	[50]
	Office room	Wireless electric appliance control	Oregon State, America	Not defined	[80]