3D Simulation-Based Pre-Occupancy Evaluation

Building evaluation is important part of the construction project delivery process. Through building evaluation, feedback is generated which can be utilized to improve construction of the next building. Currently, the most common building evaluation method is post-occupancy evaluation (POE). The POE is performed for a building (e.g., energy usage, building safety) and occupants (e.g., occupant satisfaction) after completion of construction. Because of that, it has time and cost limitations for the improvement of physical conditions. To reduce the limitations, recent research progress involves performance of building evaluation before the start of construction by using 3D simulation. This approach is called pre-occupancy evaluation (PrOE). This study presents an improved evaluation method to reduce the limitations of existing PrOE methods by performing the evaluation in advance. This study also categorizes the methodology and framework of existing studies in terms of building and human data and develops a comparison matrix for the various parameters used.