Increasingly, large companies are working to enter the market in a more sustainable and conscious way, including to generate more sustainability in architecture. Some methods are used to reach this environmentalist level, and the best way to reach this goal is through BIM and ESG.
What is sustainable architecture?
Sustainability in architecture is a less invasive way of carrying out construction, making nature part of the project instead of excluding it – which, consequently, reduces environmental impacts.
At sustainable architecture, not only is there the preservation of nature, but there is also the use of solar panels for energy, use of recyclable materials and ecological bricks, preventing the environmental degradation that is caused by infrastructures.
In addition to the conscious use of raw materials, energy, water and land, sustainability in architecture aims to improve the quality of old projects instead of building several new ones, which leads to the reduction of more damage to nature.
It also ends up being more profitable, reducing operating costs and making the energy incorporated into the construction of a given building worthwhile, because it will basically be “recycling” and renovating the old environment, making it more attractive and valued.
What is the importance of BIM and ESG for more sustainable projects?
To incorporate sustainability into architecture, it is possible to use BIM and ESG methods.
What is ESG?
Environmental, social and governance (ESG), which means “Environmental, social and governance”, aims to expand good management in the financial market to the social, environmental and business management scope.
ESG proposes a greater focus on communication, social inclusion and care for company employees, providing them with a better quality of life.
In terms of the environment, the focus is on reducing deforestation, the company's damage to climate issues and polluting agents.
In the governance sector, she improves the company for greater financial transparency, internal bills against corruption and improved risk management.
What is BIM?
Building Information Modeling (BIM), which means “Building Information Modeling”, is a software that aims to record the history of a building, improving its planning from its development to its demolition. This tool integrates processes, information, systems, organization and people.
It can cover the complete history of each stage carried out, the creation of the design, analysis of the project, documentation, use of materials, virtual map of the construction in 3D, logistics carried out for the construction, history of maintenance until the day of the demolition of the construction or project renovation.
Due to its level of importance and assistance in construction, it became mandatory to use it in cases of highly relevant projects, such as for public bodies, for example. In addition to generating more security for the company that uses BIM, this software helps standardize process steps and infrastructure operations, optimizing management.
How can ESG and BIM contribute to leveraging sustainability in architecture?
Within architecture, ESG is an effective management method, while BIM is a system that organizes and controls this management, facilitating the use of sustainable materials and project cycles, as they standardize actions.
As BIM is a platform that defines quantities and processes, with it it is possible to measure materials more precisely, reducing inefficient company expenses and waste, making contracts more readable among themselves, which ends up being linked to the ESG.
BIM also performs more accurate calculations when it comes to the volume of water needed for the construction that will be designed, making it possible to measure the amount of water that can be reused.
This software, if combined with others, generates an optimization of information, such as an energy modeling software that makes it possible to obtain results of the energy performance of a building. This procedure can also be used for carbon measurement, providing data for carbon reduction during the construction process.
ESG participates in the entire process of using the BIM in sustainable architecture, as it is the general part of business management that includes the tool to reduce costs and environmental impact, also enabling a conscious capitalism, for example, with the renovation of old projects.
Plantar Ideias works with different scales of design in a sustainable way. Browse the Plantar Ideias website to understand more about how to create and promote sustainable architecture.
