Incorporation of post-occupancy evaluation in building information modeling: a case study in Brazil

ABSTRACT

The application of post-occupancy evaluation (POE) to address the quality of built spaces is widely recognized. This paper deals with the artifact ‘Como Você Mora? – CVM’ (How Do You Live?) – BIM’, which incorporates questions from the POE CVM in BIM. The hypothesis raised was that POE data incorporated into BIM assists in understanding and analyzing the data designers obtained, for it provides clearer and more contextualized answers in the information model. The objective of the paper is to demonstrate the potential of incorporating a POE into the BIM information model, with the POE questionnaire CVM as a case study. To achieve the proposed goal, the work steps are based on Design Science Research, and are divided into (1) problem identification, (2) definition of expected results, (3) development, (4) demonstration, (5) evaluation, and (6) communication. In this paper, the first three steps of the method are presented. The contribution is made by the methodological advance in the area of POE over previous research, seeking artifacts that assist the realization of more efficient projects in terms of housing quality assessment. Results show the potential of incorporating CVM POE into BIM, to facilitate data analysis and looking for patterns of responses by project typology, through the color map in floor plans, as well as the possibility of concentrating all project information permanently linked to a single BIM model. This can in turn avoid the loss of information we obtained in the POE.

KEYWORDS:

• Post-occupancy evaluation
• technology
• BIM
• built environment quality
• apartment buildings

ABBREVIATIONS:

• BIM, Building Information Modeling
• CVM, App Como Você Mora? (App How do you live?)
• POE, Post-Occupancy Evaluation

Acknowledgments

We gratefully thank the support of National Council for Scientific and Technological, Foundation for Research Support of the State of Minas Gerais, and Federal University of Uberlandia

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 Villa et al. (2020).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais.