Following several years of research and development around the subject of BIM, its impact on the design and handover of buildings is now becoming visible across the construction industry. Changes in design procedures and information management methods indicate the potential for greater utilisation of a Common Data Environment in areas other than design. To identify how these changes are influencing the engineering design process, and adapt this process to the needs and requirements of building performance management requires consideration of multiple factors, relating mainly to the stakeholders and processes employed in these procedures. This thesis is the culmination of a four year Engineering Doctorate exploring how BIM could be used to support non-domestic building energy performance management. It begins with an introduction to the research aim and objectives, then presents a thorough review of the subject area and the methodologies employed for the research. Research is split between eight sequential tasks using literature review, interviews, data analysis and case-study application from which findings, conclusions and key recommendations are made. Findings demonstrate disparity between different information environments and provide insight into the necessary steps to enable connection between BIM and monitored building energy performance information. They highlight the following factors essential to providing an information environment suitable for BIM applied performance management: Skills in handling information and the interface between various environments; Technology capable of producing structured and accurate information, supporting efficient access for interconnection with other environments; and Processes that define the standards to which information is classified, stored and modified, with responsibility for its creation and modification made clear throughout the building life-cycle. A prototype method for the linking of BIM and monitored building energy performance data is demonstrated for a case-study building, encountering many of the technical barriers preventing replication on other projects. Methodological challenges are identified using review of existing building design and operation procedures. In conclusion the research found that BIM is still in its infancy, and while efforts are being made to apply it in novel ways to support efficient operation, several challenges remain. Opportunities for building energy performance improvement may be visualised using the modelling environment BIM provides, and the ability to interface with descriptive performance data suggests the future potential for BIM utilisation post-handover.

Med de nuvarande historiskt höga elpriserna och korta perioder av effektbrist är det mer relevant än någonsin att utforska möjligheterna att ersätta direktverkande el med alternativa system. Detta arbete undersöker, i samarbete med Länsstyrelsen i Halland, olika alternativa uppvärmningssystem som kan minska användningen av direktverkande el inom bostads- och servicesektorn, vilket utgör en betydande del av Sveriges totala elanvändning. Det primära målet är att visa hur regeringens investeringsstöd kan användas för att förbättra uppvärmningssystemen i småhus som för närvarande använder direktverkande el.Med data från energideklarationsregistret och fastighetsregistret har vi undersökt hur Hallands småhusbestånd använder sig utav direktverkande el. Genom att använda denna statistik, samt beräkningsprogramvara, har arbetet kunnat resultera i en el-besparingspotential för småhus i Halland.Den totala elanvändningen för Hallands småhus är cirka 1200 GWh/år. Resultatet visar att det finns en potential att spara 38–46 GWh/år genom att energieffektivisera studiens urval av småhusbeståndet i Hallands län.För att uppnå detta resultat har flera åtgärder genomförts och simulerats, inklusive installation av en värmepump, förbättring av klimatskalet genom tilläggsisolering och fönsterbyte samt installation av solceller. / This collaborative study with the County Administrative Board of Halland investigates various alternative heating systems to reduce reliance on direct electric heating in the residential sector, which account for a significant portion of Sweden's electricity consumption The primary objective is to demonstrate how government investment incentives can improve heating systems in single-family houses that currently employ direct electric heating. By analysing data from the energy performance certificate register and real property register, we assess the utilization of direct electric heating in Halland's single-family house stock. Through the integration of this statistical data and calculation software, the study reveals a significant potential for electricity savings in single-family houses in Halland.The results highlight a potential annual savings of 38-46 GWh in Halland County.

The following study is part of a research project at Uppsala University. The purpose of the research project is to investigate careful energy efficiency measures, which can be implemented in 20th-century single-family housing, in order to contribute increased knowledge on how the single-family housing stock can be made more energy-efficient. This report contributes knowledge about single-family housing from the 1960´s in Uppsala, with a focus on measures that make the buildings live up to the requirements of the Swedish building regulations (BBR 29). The report covers two single-family housing areas in Uppsala, Sunnersta and Valsätra, for each area a typical house has been selected for further studies. One has a wooden facade and the other has a facade of bricks. The proposed renovation packages are divided into three levels: MIN, MAX, and MIX, which describe the scope of the measures. The first package of measures (MIN) includes milder changes in the facade and the plinth. The second package of measures (MAX) includes major procedures in all parts of the building to ensure maximum energy savings. The last package (MIX) is a combination of the two action packages MIN and MAX. All the packages are simulated in BIM Energy and the simulated packages of measures for both type houses meet the energy performance requirements in BBR of 90 kWh/m2Atemp and year. However, only the action packages MAX and MIX for type house I meet the requirement regarding the U-average of 0,30 W/m2K. In the package MAX, both type houses achieve energy classification A, while the packages MIN and MIX for both type houses achieve an energy class of at least C. The energy prime is reduced by milder procedures in the framework of the buildings. To lower the U-average requires major changes in the design of the buildings. The requirement for the U-average doesn’t need to be achieved to have an energy prime which is in accordance with the requirements from the BBR.  The type houses meet today’s energy performance requirements and can be adapted to stricter requirements in the future. Type house I has a greater opportunity to meet future U-average value requirements than type house IV. The action packages can to a high degree be used in the reference areas. The MAX and MIX packages have a greater impact on the character of the area in Sunnersta and Valsätra, while the MIN package to a greater extent takes the surrounding area into account

This thesis examines the opportunities towards streamlining energy efficiency in the existing built environment in Sweden. Through this case study, the aim has been to optimise two 20th century buildings, one apartment building and one workshop building, located at different latitudes in the country. The goal has been to reduce the heat energy consumption, increase energy performance and lift the buildings to an energy class that meets the requirements for newly produced buildings, according to the regulations of Boverket. In the simulation software BIM Energy, the buildings have been the subjects of different renovation strategies in order to discover what measures are most energy efficient. An LCC analysis was performed to discover what measure is the most cost efficient in relation to its thermal energy improvements. The existing technical and energy data of each building have been used for the creation of a realistic simulation model as of its present conditions. The study has shown that a combination of renovations strategies generated the best results, and that the more expensive the intervention gets, the higher returns of investment. The study of energy performance showed that the new geographical adjustment factor and primary energy factor established by Boverket has a significant impact on how a building is classified, whereupon the choice of primary energy source can determine whether a building is ranked as passive house or energy thief. Though as standalone measures, when coming to reduction of the energy heat demand, a FTX-system have been proven superior with added external insulation as a solid second.

Humans are increasingly influencing the climate and the temperature of the Earth by burning fossilfuels, destroying forests, and raising livestock. This adds massive amounts of greenhouse gases(GHG) to those already present in the atmosphere, amplifying the greenhouse effect andcontributing to global warming. The building sector accounts for a significant amount ofgreenhouse gas emissions. Decarbonizing the building industry can result in significant emissionreductions in the future years. Sweden's energy and climate goals have been updated, and some ofthem include reducing GHG emissions in the building sector, increasing energy efficiency, andmaking electricity production 100 percent renewable. In Sweden, energy renovations in singlefamily houses (SFHs) have the potential to reduce GHG emissions and improve energy efficiency,but the rate of energy renovations remains low because of financial, social, and behavioral barriers.This thesis aims to use LCA and LCC methodologies to assess energy renovations on SFH inVäxjö by combining various combinations of energy efficiency measures (EEMs) to reduce energyuse. The energy performance and eight different renovation scenarios using different EEMs havebeen evaluated for the selected single-family building. To evaluate building renovation measures,we developed a method based on life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle cost (LCC) thatincorporates building information modeling (BIM). Five different renovation measures werecombined in eight scenarios in this research, including different thicknesses of thermal insulationfor walls and roofs, triple-glazed windows, and doors with different U-values, air-source heatpumps, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, and solar photovoltaic. The present cost valuesof renovation measures over 50 years for LCC calculation were calculated. The global warmingpotential (GWP) of each renovation measure was estimated over 50 years using One-click LCA.According to the findings of this thesis project, scenarios 1 and 8 had the lowest and highestreductions in primary energy number, respectively. Scenarios 5, 6, 7, and 8 are the most costeffective in comparison to other scenarios. All scenarios resulted in a reduction in GWP impactfrom an LCA perspective in which scenario 7 resulted in the highest reduction in GWP impact.

Energy analysis at different stages of a building’s life-cycle allows designers and engineers to make proper design decisions, which will enhance the efficiency and energy saving measures. However, energy analysis of a building using traditional methods at every stage of the project is time-consuming and more labor intensive. Thus, energy simulations of buildings are rarely introduced in all design stages of the project. This study focuses on data transfer process from BIM model (Revit) to energy simulation model (IES ‹VE›) using OpenBIM meta-data model - Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) as an exchangeable file format. This data sharing process simplifies the complexity in energy modeling and allows to investigate different design alternatives in each phase of the building’s life-cycle. To investigate the efficiency and completeness of this data transfer process, a demonstration of data sharing is carried. By evaluating the results from the demonstration, efficiency gaps are identified in the data transferred process. A detailed investigation on the cause of efficiency gaps in data sharing is carried out and incorporated in this paper.:Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Building Energy Simulation 2.1. Categorization of Energy Simulation Models 3. Data Sharing Requirements - IFC 4. Data Sharing Demonstration 4.1. BIM model 4.2. Data investigation with model viewer 4.3. Data quality verification in energy simulation model 4.3.1. Evaluation of Results 5. Conclusion References