An integrated analysis of structural safety, embodied carbon, and construction cost in a prefabricated Chinese timber house within a BIM-based environment



Zhang, Xi, Miao, Zhantang, Feng, Gang and Du, Jiangtao ORCID: 0000-0002-4307-4398
(2021) An integrated analysis of structural safety, embodied carbon, and construction cost in a prefabricated Chinese timber house within a BIM-based environment. In: 2021 Building Simulation Conference, 2021-9-1 - 2021-9-3, Bruges, Belgium.

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Abstract

The timber building has received increasing attention in building industry due to its benefits to environmental resilience. This study presents a BIM-based integrated analysis in a new prefabricated timber house in northern China, considering seismic performance, construction material use/cost, and embodied carbon emission. Three new structure solutions were analysed in comparison with the conventional model. It can be found from the cost analysis that the shortest stud spacing achieves an increase of 23.67% and the longest stud spacing has a decrease of 21.92%. For the embodied carbon, the shortest stud spacing sees a decrease of 29.21%, while an increase of 12.52% is found in the longest stud spacing.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified)
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 11 Jun 2021 14:08
Last Modified: 15 Mar 2024 15:48
DOI: 10.26868/25222708.2021.30893
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3125993