Can technology help in maintaining Air Quality during the construction stage?

“Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine?“

— Lillian Russell

Technology while is impacting our air quality badly, the same technology can be used to take care of air quality in various ways.

Our health will be better if BIM and air quality improvement efforts are combined.

Today's society is concerned about air quality.

In the various stages of a building's lifecycle, the architecture and construction sector can take action to lessen the impact on people during:

·?Construction operation

·?Demolition of building

·?Construction of building structures

Construction operation:

When a building is built using Building Information Modeling (BIM), it comes with a digital twin of the actual building.

The potential of this digital twin after the completion of construction is not being fully realized. Real-time data can be added to all of this information to enhance data-driven decision-making.

This subject is covered in the research - The Integration of BIM and IoT for Air Quality Monitoring and Visualization. Different options for integrating air quality data with the BIM output, showing how the air quality is changing are available in this paper.

It talks about:

? Integration of Sensor-Revit, Sensor-Revit-Navisworks, and Sensor-Revit-Navisworks-API

The study shows how BIM sensor data integration for property managers, owners, and tenants can result in more responsive building management and operation. Navisworks can also be used to display temperature sensor data.

Demolition of building:

Different contaminants may be released into the air during the demolition. Risk can be reduced without causing excessive operating costs by employing real-time data monitoring with BIM. This will determine when and where dust emissions are being produced, thus decreasing the detrimental effects on employees and the neighborhood's population.

Construction of building structures:

Construction sites expose the public to many contaminants that may have an adverse effect on the health of both workers and the general public.

But the idea of green building has ushered in a revolutionary shift, leading to less pollution and, obviously, a healthier environment.

For construction workers, airborne dust from the job site can have negative effects on their health and lead to lung-related problems. People who reside close to a construction site are exposed to a variety of harmful dust emissions that can lead to health problems.

By enabling proactive management of the various operations, proactive monitoring of the construction site in conjunction with a smart pollution control system can reduce the impact of pollution. The system can assess the impact and assist in its reduction by considering several elements such as weather conditions, the kind of operations, and machinery.

Future of building world:

The various stages of a building's lifecycle that can impact people's health should be kept in mind.

Air quality pollution is reduced by combining sensor data with all of a building's existing data as well as various monitoring techniques. The primary focus of today's building sites is reducing the AEC's negative effects on the environment as well as the general public's health.

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