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Document Type : Thesis 
Document Title :
INTEGRATION BIM WITH MCDA TO EVALUATE THE QUALITY AND LIFE-CYCLE COST OF ARCHITECTURAL BUILDING DESIGN
دمج نمذجة معلومات البناء مع تحليل قرارات متعددة المعايير لتقييم جودة تصميم و تكلفة دورة حياة مشاريع البناء المعمارية
 
Subject : Faculty of Engineering 
Document Language : Arabic 
Abstract : Early architectural decisions have an enormous impact on the long-term performance and cost of buildings. Evaluating architectural designs, however, remains a subjective and biased process that varies from one person to another due to the conflicting nature of the objectives of the various stakeholders. In an effort to enhance design development, this research introduces a multi-criteria decision-making framework for evaluating architectural design alternatives at the early design stage. The framework is designed to reduce subjectivity that arises because of the varying points of view of the stakeholders, and accordingly, determine the most appropriate design decision that satisfies all stakeholders’ preferences. It provides seven Architectural Design Variables (ADVs) with a total of 40 design options that have conflicting contributions to 4 performance criteria and 8 sub-criteria. The criteria/sub-criteria have been defined based on input from 10 expert architects and were combined to generate potential designs. Based on that, A Decision Support System (DSS) was developed to embody the relative preferences of the architects among multiple key criteria including (functionality, construction, operational, and aesthetics performances). Such criteria are relating to the buildings life-cycle performance. The Architectural Design Decision Support System (AD-DSS) was developed to be used mainly to evaluate the design alternatives in hot climates for three types of building projects: (1) residential buildings; (2) commercial buildings; and (3) educational buildings, based on the experts’ built-in scoring values. The developed system is capable to automatically calculate criteria weights and evaluate any combination of design options through the developed program of the system. A case study of a residential villa with three design alternatives is used and integrated with BIM to validate the DSS ability to rank the designs in terms of overall performance scores or a specific aspect. The results show that the proposed DSS can be used by (A/E/C) firms to support decisions effectively with respect to the building design by supporting the difficult evaluation process that is primarily one criterion at a time, and arrives at best design, considering all criteria simultaneously. 
Supervisor : Dr. Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Taha Salem 
Thesis Type : Master Thesis 
Publishing Year : 1441 AH
2019 AD 
Added Date : Tuesday, October 29, 2019 

Researchers

Researcher Name (Arabic)Researcher Name (English)Researcher TypeDr GradeEmail
عبدالله علي السقافAlSaggaf, Abdullah AliResearcherMaster 

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