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<doi>10.14455/ISEC.2019.6(1).CON-10</doi>
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<article-title>INTEGRATING BUILDING INFORMATION<br/>
MODELING AND VISUAL PROGRAMMING FOR<br/>
BUILDING LIFE-CYCLE COST ANALYSIS
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<author>VEERASAK LIKHITRUANGSILP<sup>1</sup>, HANG T. T. LE<sup>1</sup>, NOBUYOSHI YABUKI<sup>2</sup>, and<br/>
PHOTIOS G. IOANNOU<sup>3</sup></author>

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<sup>1</sup>Dept of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan,<br/>
Thailand<br/>
<sup>2</sup>Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka,<br/>
Japan<br/>
<sup>3</sup>Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>In recent years, the fierce competition in worldwide real-estate market has pushed the
stakeholders towards the sustainability for buildings. Life-cycle cost (LCC) is an
effective economic evaluation tool that provides a detailed account for all costs related
to constructing, operating, maintaining, and disposing a construction project over a
defined period of time. Awareness of better value of money throughout the LCC is
beyond the initial price. Governments and Contracting authorities add the LCC as a key
provision in the context of National Codes and Council Directives to promote the
growth of sustainability concept. Current LCC analytical methods are costly,
laborious, and time-consuming due to the difficulties of obtaining information and
implementing many single LCC analyses for all building elements, which may be
attributed to the inaccuracy of results. Building information modeling (BIM) is a
modern technology that can potentially overcome the asperities that obstruct practical
LCC implementation. This paper develops a new automated system for performing
LCC analyses for new building projects by integrating BIM authoring programming
with visual programming. The proposed system consists of two main modules. The
BIM module is designed to retrieve 3D geometric and physical parameters of building
element types. The life-cycle cost calculation module can perform automatic
estimating and report results. This system provides an economic evaluation tool for the
owner to manage the total life-cycle budget of their projects.</p>
<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Sustainability, Economic evaluation, BIM authoring programming,
Contractor selection.</p>
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