Evaluation of Energy Consumption in Construction

Authors

  • Priyanka N. Nikam
  • Satish M. Waysal

Abstract

Construction projects consume a large amount of energy during construction as well as operation Phases in various forms for transportation, manufacturing, labour and machinery in construction activities. Energy efficiency is a vital issue of any building project. In recent years, many energy optimization techniques have been used to raise the efficiency of energy utilization. Most of the research conducted towards quantifying the energy consumption in buildings focuses only on the operation phase and hence sidelines the opportunity to decrease other building-related energy consumption. This energy consumption in construction during the construction phase has large scale cumulative environmental impacts at the national level.

This paper demonstrates a method to automatically quantify the ‘Embodied Energy of various raw materials’ used in construction projects. And also we calculated transportation energy for construction material and personnel transportation energy involve in whole construction project. For this, BIM technology has been used and a convenient linkage between the BIM model and external energy databases has been established through plug-ins developed exclusively for this purpose.

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2020-02-07

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