Today the construction industry gives more significance to sustainability and sustainable buildings where constructing smart buildings would turn out to be an advantageous shift the AEC industry will underwent. Digital technologies such as IOT, BIM Services, Block chain and other modern technology are the solutions to issue such as overspending, inefficiency and costly terms.

Smart buildings are the solution made to know the energy consumed by the buildings and carbon emission caused by these buildings. Smart buildings are controlled by sensors and actuators with computing and communication system that has increase the efficiency of the building aiding to help accumulate day-to-day activities for the occupants.

Smart Building Processes and Benefits

• Smart Building has improved productivity and delivers a better space along energy savings to get higher profit. It shifts from static environment into a dynamic depending upon the need of the occupants. The benefits of the smart building are as below:-
• It helps to lower the operating and maintenance costs.
• It helps in improving worker productivity and satisfaction.
• Mobile app can connect to collaborative work; assign workspace, open doors, etc.
• Lightning in the smart building can adjust when space is being used or not.
• Customized temperature and light control for occupant’s comfort.
• Smart buildings can focus on building data and information after the maintenance and construction costs.

Challenges of BIM in smart Buildings

• Smart Build Environment is where the smart objects are built to perform sensing and control of the environment it will be constructed. There are many challenges faced in constructing smart building as below:-
• The location where the smart objects such as sensor, actuators, etc. are set can greatly affect the performance and ability to carry out certain tasks.  For instance, the lightning detecting sensor can impact on lights or occupancy sensing it.
• It is difficult to get documentation of data and maintain the smart objects in the building from Smart Build Environment. As the data in the SBE is more critical than the traditional buildings.
• The interaction of smart objects with the environment at times becomes very crucial. Objects just can’t work on functions but also on surroundings to fill the space of the building. All the information will be needed such as conducting a performance analysis of the SBE building along with the information from sensors.

Conclusion

Perhaps, in the construction industry the next major development and achievement would be to get smart buildings constructed. Smart buildings are constantly evolving the industry while improving efficiency. There are many sensor and actuators which is applied in the core system of the smart buildings to effectively get communicated with environment and monitor the impact of smart objects on occupant’s lifestyle, projection cost and environment.

Smart buildings are made to increase the productivity of occupants with better lightning, thermal comfort, air quality and security at cost effective solutions than the conventional buildings. Smart Buildings are the future of the Construction Industry.