My prefered area is in Waste management & BIM , where I have read about using 4D BIM & 5D in waste management , but I have not reached a significant research gap to work on it, so is there any suggestion towards gap areas in using BIM towards waste management?
In waste management area, bioremediation field is most popular, in which you can use microbes, plants and their metabolites to clean waste. And their are different setup categories, you can use microbes , plants and other system for this purpose.
Thanks and regrds
Dear Elhassan,
The current stage of the BIM learning curve and maturity allows construction practitioners to design out both wasteful practices (lean) and solid waste at the design stage. It is definitely a great area of research because construction waste have significant negative implications on cost, society and the environment.
Depending on your research capabilities and availability of data, you may measure, quantify and monetize the quantity of solid construction waste footprint that can be reduced due to the use of BIM in the project. Of course, you would have to compare two or more similar BIM and non-BIM construction projects. Your greatest challenge will be to determine the reduction attributable to solely BIM since lean production principles and offsite industrialized solutions have proven to reduce solid construction waste in projects.
You may search the following paper to use as a good starting point
"How to measure the benefits of BIM" by Barlish and colleague and published in the Journal of Automation in Construction
Good luck
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