BIM Technology and Material Innovation: From Efficiency to Environmental Compatibility

The paper focused on definition of environmental performances criteria of the building materials for the efficient envelope for the design control according to the life cycle of the envelope building and to the performance of the building in environmental terms. This research proposes an open database fulfillment on BIM (Building Information Modeling) platform to classify characteristics and performance of building innovative materials. The database integrated with the parametric modeling of the building envelope will allow not only the geometric and spatial description of the element and the listing of the information related to the quantities, but also the classification of the properties of each component. This information, integrated with the other data coming from the building and the context, will be elaborated with appropriate algorithms in order