Puyan Abolghasem Zadeh

• Dr.-Ing.
• Professor (Associate) at University of British Columbia

The promise of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Facilities Management (FM) is based upon building information models as reliable sources of information for decisions during a facility’s life cycle, from the planning to end of life. However, the premise of BIM as an enabler for the delivery of reliable information for FM has numerous challeng...

The Operation and Maintenance (O&M) phase can account for as much as 80% of the overall lifecycle cost of a project. The inputs from O&M practitioners are often not incorporated during the design phase leading to maintainability issues during the O&M phase, which results in significant costs and hinders building performance. Traditionally, design c...

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Building design is a complex and iterative process that requires collaboration between designers from numerous disciplines. Quality of design has a direct impact on project success especially during the operations and maintenance phase from an end-user perspective. Using modern approaches like Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Integrated Pro...

Modern cities require innovative urban design and development approaches that are efficiently tailored for neighborhood needs. To achieve this, decision makers must deal with information from both the micro (building asset) and the macro (neighborhood) levels, consequently deal with two very different information scopes and standards. This paper ad...

An introduction to Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the context of the AECO industry, including the following topics: - Fuzzy logic - Wisdom of Crowds and Swarm Intelligence - Supervised and Unsupervised Learning - Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) - Support Vector Machines (SVM)

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To achieve energy-efficient design in urban communities, the design phase needs to adopt reliable energy modeling approaches. However, current urban modeling approaches often use abstract and low level information to describe buildings because of the difficulties of collecting and managing building data on the large scale required of such urban com...

Assessing the quality of building information models (BIMs) is an important yet challenging task within the construction industry as projects are increasingly being delivered with BIM. This is particularly essential for facility management (FM) users as downstream information consumers that depend on the quality of models developed in the previous...

Assessing the quality of construction for compliance with the design intent has been a challenging task in the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry. As modern design methods using Building Information Modeling (BIM) techniques have been increasingly adopted by the AEC industry, construction quality assessment using BIM has bec...

In improving energy efficiency of buildings, windows play a significant role as they largely influence the energy load. Although there are many studies about the energy efficient window design, a rigorous study is missing which analyzes the mutual impact of windows’ size, position and orientation on the energy load. This study aims to address this...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been applied to various stages in the life cycle of building projects, with a focus expanding from more traditional design towards areas of construction and facility management. This paper describes work exploring a suite of BIM technologies and IT tools that can help achieve the cost, time and quality targe...

Assessing the quality of information in building information models (BIM) at the time of project handover is critical for owners. Lack of quality information in delivered BIMs can cause significant issues in using BIM for facility management purposes, potentially limiting or preventing their use in building operations. Our studies of numerous BIM p...

The spread of fire and smoke during a fire incident plays a crucial role in rescuing people from the burning building. So it is important for the decision makers (the head of rescue staff) to get a prediction about the spread of fire inside the building through computational techniques like numerical fire simulations. But these techniques require a...

Numerical fire simulations (in terms of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)) are becoming increasingly pervasive in fire safety analysis, because they offer many benefits beyond those offered by traditional methods. Nevertheless, such simulations are time-consuming and require a relatively large amount of computation power for use in engineering app...