ABSTRACT
A good Indoor Environmental Quality is required for any building applying for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification.
The room-by-room calculations required to demonstrate compliance with the Indoor Enviromental Quality (IEQ) prerequisites and credits, starting from the building geometry and use and the HVAC technical data, may be time consuming and error-prone. With Building Information Modeling (BIM) all the required data can be incorporated into the design model, thus speeding up the process, automate the design validation and minimize the errors.
The research explored the use of BIM for the Mechanical design following the LEED IEQ P1 and IEQ C2 qualification, and the automation of calculus for the verification process with the use of Dynamo visual scripting tool for the data exchange between Autodesk Revit and electronic spreadsheets.
