A sustainable BIM-based multidisciplinary framework for underground pipeline clash detection and analysis

Authors：Luo, Sang; Yao, Jinyue; Wang, Siqi; Wang, Yaozheng; Lu, Guoyang^*

Source：JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, 2022, 374: 133900.

DOI：10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133900

• Clash detection
• Underground pipeline system
• BIM
• Sustainable optimisation

An urban underground pipeline system is widely applied to ensure the normal operation of urban functions. Building information modelling (BIM) can integrate a multi-disciplinary underground pipeline information system to improve the efficiency and quality of underground pipeline management and maintenance. This study therefore used BIM to establish a sustainable multi-disciplinary evaluation framework for underground pipeline clash detection and analysis. The framework integrated modules such as clash type definition and analysis, clash -rule definition, BIM clash detection, rule contribution and evaluation, irrelevant clash filtration, and clash co-ordination. The results showed that the proposed framework can effectively reduce design errors and burdens, and develop a knowledge-based rule for multiple participants and data objects, maximising multi-level and multi-factor optimisation for underground pipeline management and maintenance. The results also indicated that the sustainable BIM-aided urban underground pipeline optimisation framework plays an important role in advancing the infrastructural design process, and the exploration of greener measures to improve the under-ground built environment.