BIM-Based End-of-Lifecycle Decision Making and Digital Deconstruction: Literature Review

This article is the second part of a two-part study, which explored the extent to which
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is used for End-of-Lifecycle (EoL) scenario selection to minimise
the Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW). The conventional literature review presented here is
based on the conceptual landscape that was obtained from the bibliometric and scientometric analysis
in the first part of the study. Seven main academic research directions concerning the BIM-based EoL
domain were found, including social and cultural factors, BIM-based Design for Deconstruction (DfD),
BIM-based deconstruction, BIM-based EoL within LCA, BIM-aided waste management, Material
and Component Banks (M/C Banks), o-site construction, interoperability and Industry Foundation
Classes (IFC). The analysis highlights research gaps in the path of raw materials to reusable materials,
i.e., from the deconstruction to M/C banks to DfD-based designs and then again to deconstruction.
BIM-based EoL is suering from a lack of a global framework. The existing solutions are based on
local waste management policies and case-specific sustainability criteria selection. Another drawback
of these ad hoc but well-developed BIM-based EoL prototypes is their use of specific proprietary BIM
tools to support their framework. This disconnection between BIM tools and EoL tools is reportedly
hindering the BIM-based EoL, while no IFC classes support the EoL phase information exchange.