Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Levy, Francois
• Lévy, François

Titel

Site Analysis

Ist Teil von

• BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design, 2011, p.55-77

Ort / Verlag

United States: Wiley

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter frames the discussion of the role of building information modeling in the analysis and design of sustainable sites. In a growing number of jurisdictions, regulations aimed at promoting sustainable development prohibit the removal of soil from construction sites. A primary function of a site model is to facilitate topographical analysis of the site. In the case of web‐viewed geographic information system (GIS) data, where a web page serves as the user's access to the GIS data, the designer may need to capture topography as raster images, then trace contours manually or using a raster to vector conversion tool. The designer may wish to perform an informal field survey in order to establish preliminary site conditions: a survey may not yet be available, or the project may be at a feasibility stage and not warrant a survey. Finally, the chapter concludes with a relevant case study project.