麦克劳希尔建筑业最新SmartMarket报告显示，绿色建筑能促进BIM软件的应用。

《绿色BIM：建筑信息模型如何推动绿色设计与施工》报告是由美国绿色建筑委员会（US Green Building Council，USGBC）、美国机械承包商协会（Mechanical Contractors Association of America ，MCAA）和欧特克（Autodesk）以及13个其他行业组织共同合作完成。报告指出绿色建筑行业正在开始挖掘BIM的潜力以满足“绿色”的需求。

案例要点：报告发现，只有17%的BIM从业人员在绿色建筑当中实现了BIM50%以上的潜力，而目前暂时没有在绿色建筑中应用BIM的受访者当中有78%表示在三年内会利用BIM软件。

麦格劳希尔副总裁Harvey Bernstein说，正如绿色建筑在美国改变设计与施工流程一样，BIM具有提升创新、设计和施工效率的潜力，能领导全球思想和业务发展。

根据该报告，随着绿色建筑在建筑业的份额越来越大，BIM的益处也能得到更广泛的认可。因此，BIM利用数字模型能有效提高设计、施工和项目运营的效率，将得到更广泛的采用。

另一项调查结果显示，近一半（49%）的绿色建筑的BIM从业人员在50%以上的项目中使用BIM，相比之下，只有28%的非绿色建筑的BIM公司在50%以上的项目使用BIM。绿色建筑BIM从业人员也更多地使用软件，因为相对于非绿色建筑BIM从业人员他们需要更多地创建和分析建筑模型。

BIM的益处也能得到更广泛的认可（图片来源：百度）

麦克劳希尔的研究表明，绿色建筑最常提及的一个效益是能源效率，大大地节约了建筑物的整个生命周期的成本。
        同样，绿色建筑的BIM研究表明能源损耗模拟工具将得到发展。例如，2年内在绿色建筑中应用BIM的企业有95%进行能源损耗模拟，而目前在绿色建筑中进行能源损耗模拟的企业只有79%，对于非绿色建筑企业，只有21%进行能源损耗模拟。

应用BIM的非绿色建筑企业在未来两年内最想进行模拟的关键领域是：整体建筑使用（80%），照明和采光（69%）以及能源规范（65%）。

 绿色建筑的BIM应用者发现技术在绿色改造项目中十分重要。27%的调查者认为BIM非常适用（ highly applicable ）于绿色改造项目，49%的调查者认为BIM一般适用（medium applicability）于绿色改造项目。

之前麦格劳希尔的报告预测绿色改造项目将从2009年的5~9%增加至2014年的20~30%，BIM的绿色建筑市场将有快速的增长。

The green building sector will drive the adoption of building information modeling (BIM) software, according to a new SmartMarket Report from McGraw-Hill Construction.

The report, “Green BIM: How Building Information Modeling is Contributing to Green Design and Construction” produced in collaboration with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA), Autodesk, and 13 other industry organizations, finds that the industry is only now tapping into the potential of BIM to meet their ‘green’ goals.

Case-in-point: The report finds that only 17 percent of Green BIM practitioners are currently realizing more than 50 percent of BIM’s potential for their green goals, but 78 percent of survey respondents who aren’t currently using BIM for their green building projects expect to within the next three years.

BIM has the potential to increase innovation, design and construction efficiency, just as green building has transformed design and construction in the U.S., says Harvey Bernstein, McGraw-Hill’s vice president, global thought leadership and business development.

According to the report, as green building become a larger share of construction, the benefits provided by BIM will also be more widely recognized. As a result, the use of BIM will increase as it delivers a more efficient way to leverage digital models for design, construction and operation of projects, according to the report.

Another finding shows that nearly half (49 percent) of Green BIM practitioners use BIM for more than 50 percent of their projects, compared to 28 percent of non-Green BIM companies. Green BIM practitioners are also more intensive users of the software since they both create and analyze models more frequently than non-Green BIM companies, according to the report.

McGraw-Hill Construction studies have found that energy efficiency is the most often cited green building benefit, yielding significant cost savings over a building’s full lifecycle.

Similarly, the Green BIM study expects strong growth for energy performance simulation tools. For example, 95 percent of firms practicing BIM for green projects will do energy performance simulations within two years, compared with 73 percent now, and 79 percent of firms using BIM, but not focused on green projects, will conduct the simulations, compared to 21 percent currently.

The two key areas that non-Green BIM companies would like to simulate over the next two years include whole building use (80 percent), lighting and daylighting (69 percent) and energy code compliance (65 percent).

Green BIM users also find the technology to be useful for green retrofit projects. Twenty-seven percent see BIM as highly applicable for use in green retrofits and 49 percent believe it has “medium applicability.”

 Based on a previous McGraw-Hill report that forecasts that green retrofit projects will increase from five to nine percent in 2009 to 20 to 30 percent in 2014,  the market is likely to be a strong growth area for Green BIM, according to the report.