اوا مزروعي

Energy consumption in buildings accounts for a significant portion of the total national energy use, an‎d Iran’s National Building Regulations, particularly Chapter 19, have been introduced to mitigate this issue. However, the manual verification of these regulations during the design an‎d supervision phases is often time-consuming, prone to errors, an‎d highly dependent on personal interpretation. This research aims to digitize an‎d automate parts of Chapter 19 requirements within the Building Information Modeling (BIM) environment. The study focused on the prescriptive method an‎d passive/architectural rules. selec‎ted provisions from Chapters 3, 4, an‎d 5 of Chapter 19 were extracted an‎d reformulated into logical rules. Using a combination of Dynamo scripts an‎d a custom plugin developed in Revit API (C#), these rules were automatically applied to a sample residential building model. The system produced numerical outputs, including compliance percentages, degrees of deviation, an‎d improvement recommendations. Findings revealed that out of ten rules tested, seven were compliant an‎d three were non-compliant, leading to an overall compliance rate of 70% (with a weighted compliance index of 62%). The main non-compliances included insufficient insulation thickness, excessive window-to-wall ratio, an‎d inadequate thermal mass of the floor. These results demonstrate that the proposed approach successfully acted as a proof of concept, highlighting the feasibility of automated compliance checking for Iran’s Chapter 19 in BIM-based workflows. Although the current research faced limitations (such as focusing only on prescriptive rules an‎d excluding mechanical an‎d advanced energy simulation aspects) it provides a promising outlook for future developments. Potential directions include extending the system to cover performance-based rules, integrating mechanical an‎d electrical domains, coupling with energy simulation tools, an‎d employing artificial intelligence to suggest an‎d even automatically apply corrective design modifications within the BIM environment.

مبحث 19 مقررات ملي ساختمان , مدل‌سازي اطلاعات ساختمان (BIM) , داينامو

Iran National Building Regulations-Chapter 19 , Building Information Modeling (BIM) , Dynamo

Ava Mazroei

Dr Morteza Rahbar