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Building Information Modeling for Renovation and Refurbishment

A Practical Guide

  • 1st Edition - July 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Timo Hartmann, Sharon Susan Verghese, Jan-Derrick Braun, Jessica Steinjan
  • Language: English

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is widely used in new construction but is less commonly applied to renovation activities. Building Information Modeling for Renovation and Re… Read more

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Description

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is widely used in new construction but is less commonly applied to renovation activities. Building Information Modeling for Renovation and Refurbishment: A Practical Guide addresses this gap by offering a practical resource centered on well-defined use cases for applying BIM to renovation projects.

The authors contributed to the EU Horizon 2020–funded BIM-Speed project, through which they developed over 20 use cases with demonstrative implementations on real-world renovation projects. These use cases were also formalized as standard BuildingSmart International use cases.

This book presents a selection of the most important use cases in an accessible format tailored to renovation practitioners. It also outlines requirements for information management and BIM implementation planning to support the seamless integration of these use cases into practice.

Key features

  • Provides comprehensive, practical information on the possibilities for implementing BIM in building renovation projects
  • Serves as a starting point for practical BIM implementations for people that have to manage a renovation project and those engineers that plan BIM strategies within companies
  • Provides a useful teaching resource at universities for senior undergraduates and postgraduates

Readership

Researchers and working engineers in the fields of: Building Contractors, Building Owners, Building Surveyors, Architects, Senior graduates and post graduates involved in civil and structural engineering courses

Table of contents

1. Building Renovation

2. Introduction

3. Current state of building renovations

4. Imagining another process

5. BIM as a way forward?

6. What this book is about

7. The Life-Cycle of Building Renovation

8. Local Context and Stakeholders

9. Technical Challenges

10. BIM Use cases

11. BIM Applications in the Renovation Life-Cycle

12. Status assessment of buildings - Generating BIMs from laser scans

13. Scan2BIM

14. Integrating building sensor based data collection with BIM

15. BIM to Building Energy model (BEM)

16. Model checks for testing the compliance of renovation options

17. Coordinating renovation design with clash detection

18. Estimating renovation costs with 5D BIM

19. Renovation work visualization with 4D BIM31

20. BIM Management

21. BIM Execution Planning for Renovation Projects

22. Common Data Environments for Renovation ProjectsIV

23. Conclusion

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the authors

TH

Timo Hartmann

Professor Timo Hartmann is a professor in Civil Systems Engineering, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany. He develops state-of-the-art system visualization and simulation technologies in his research and practical work. Timo received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is an assistant specialty editor for the Construction Engineering and Management Journal.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Civil Systems Engineering, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

SV

Sharon Susan Verghese

Sharon Susan Verghese is a research engineer on the BIM-Speed project. Sharon was responsible for developing BIM (Building Information Modeling) use cases for renovation that this book mainly will be built around. She has previous work experience on building systems design and project execution.

Affiliations and expertise
TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

JB

Jan-Derrick Braun

Jan-Derrick Braun is a project manager at HOCHTIEF ViCon GmbH, Germany. Within the EU-funded BIM-SPEED project, he played a key role in coordinating work package activities and contributing to the development of BIM-based renovation methodologies, training formats, and demonstration workflows. His work focuses on translating research outcomes into applicable methods for engineering teams and clients.
Affiliations and expertise
HOCHTIEF ViCon GmbH, Essen, Germany

JS

Jessica Steinjan

Jessica Steinjan is a Building Information Modeling manager at HOCHTIEF ViCon GmbH, Germany. With a strong background in automated model checking, information requirements, and data modeling, she was one of the main authors of the BIM-SPEED methodologies and contributed to several key deliverables. Her work focuses on transforming research-based insights into practical tools and guidance for renovation projects.
Affiliations and expertise
HOCHTIEF ViCon GmbH, Essen, Germany