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Farid Fouchal
Farid
Fouchal
Vanda Dimitriou
Vanda
Dimitriou
Tarek Hassan
Tarek
Hassan
Steven Firth
Steven
Firth
Argyris Oraiopoulos
Argyris
Oraiopoulos
Jonathan Masior
Jonathan
Masior
Sven Schimpf
Sven
Schimpf
Decision support tool for selection of best building retrofit action
Loughborough University
2017
MCDM
Building retrofit
BIM
Decision support
Energy performance
Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified
2017-08-04 10:47:03
Conference contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Decision_support_tool_for_selection_of_best_building_retrofit_action/9433358
This paper shows a process of developing a decision support tool to automatically generate building retrofit alternatives and rank them using energy performance analysis, user requirements, relevant benchmarks and regulations. Refinement of the retrofit scenarios follows a set of steps from creation of a Building Information Model of a base-case representing the status of the building at the time of the analysis, then creation of combinations for the possible retrofit scenarios. TOPSIS (Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) based multi criteria approach is adopted as it relies on identified best alternatives using selected criteria. Ranking of alternatives follows their relative closeness to the identified ideal alternative. Best options are graphically presented.