Environmental Sustainability Assessment Of Factories With BIM

Relevance And Challenges For A Holistic Approach

Verfasst von

Luca Philipp, Leonie Große-Wilde, Leonard Rieke, Sabine Hartmann, Matthias Schmidt, Katharina Klemt-Albert

Abstract

Environmental sustainability is increasingly seen as a central objective of a factory in order to ensure the long-term competitiveness of industrial companies. In addition to growing social and regulatory pressures, the urgency is further emphasized by the increasing sustainability awareness of companies. This not only enhances their attractiveness to customers and investors but can also help to reduce costs. The assessment of the environmental sustainability of factories can be used in a variety of ways and in different planning and life cycle phases. For example, the ecological assessment can be used both in factory planning to select a preferred planning variant and in factory operation to record the current status. Conventional, often manual planning methods frequently prove to be insufficient to fulfil requirements such as the consideration of the entire life cycle of a factory or the demand for high data transparency. The use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a promising way of overcoming this challenge, as it is already used in practice to capture relevant information and data for the life cycle of a building. This article demonstrates the importance and challenge of assessing the ecological sustainability of factories from a spatial and process perspective using BIM. Based on this, requirements are formulated for a standardized and application-oriented procedure that enables a life cycle-oriented sustainability assessment of factories.

Details

Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Fabrikanlagen und Logistik
Externe Organisation(en)
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH)
Typ
Konferenzaufsatz in Fachzeitschrift
Journal
Proceedings of the Conference on Production Systems and Logistics
Seiten
149-161
Anzahl der Seiten
13
Publikationsdatum
18.03.2025
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen und Fertigungstechnik, Maschinenbau, Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement, Strategie und Management
Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung
SDG 7 – Erschwingliche und saubere Energie, SDG 9 – Industrie, Innovation und Infrastruktur, SDG 12 – Verantwortungsvoller Konsum und Produktion
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.15488/18864 (Zugang: Offen )