Dr Fawaz is an expert in construction and data transformation, with an architecture background and more than 14 years of professional experience. He holds a PhD in Architecture using BIM for Sustainable Design from University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. He involved in BIM strategic planning, standardization work process, mapping exchange requirements and defining the role of BIM actors. He also provides support and management to deliver parametric digital collaborative design solutions in a number of mega projects (6 billion US $( such as public and private sectors.
He also has extensive knowledge and experience work with all BIM level of integration from 3D up to 7D. Dr. Fawaz is BIM certified from a BSI and Autodesk and IFC BIM management and OpenBIM. He also participated in a number of conference and symposium over the world as key speaker’s as the following example:
- EC3 European Conference on Computing in Construction, Greece, 2019
- CitA Construction IT l Dublin, 2017 (awarded the best BIM digital design.
BIM based project Sustainability Analysis
When collaborative design revolves around Building Information Models (BIMs), much of data required for project sustainability analysis is already defined by other project stakeholders. Furthermore, and during operation, mechanical equipment such as HVAC and lighting fixtures plays a major role in functional performance, resultant thermal comfort and energy consumption. Monitoring building performance and thermal comfort requires additional representative data about indoor environmental conditions and energy consumption.
The core objective of this innovation presents the data and information needed for integration of BIM with thermal comfort modelling for commercial office spaces. Thermal comfort analysis requires detailed specification of the analysis processes and the data and information that needs to be exchanged to support these processes. To date this work has identified 22 objects with over 800 properties relevant for thermal comfort analysis, for example: Actor, Air Terminal, Space Building Material, Opening Element and Zone etc.
These exchange requirements are essential for realizing data exchange between BIM and BEPS tools for advanced energy performance analysis. These data must first be categorised in a standardised manner. The outputs of this work will contribute to a Model View Definition (MVD) for thermal comfort using the IFC standard.