Integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and LEED's Location and Transportation Category

The selection and development of a project location is critical to the success of a green building project. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is one of the most popular Green Building certification systems in the world. Traditionally in LEED design, architects and designers have to analyze project location based on traditional maps with manual calculations, which require a significant amount of time and effort. In the meantime, the advent of Building Information Modeling (BIM) has brought about a promising new way of improving Green Building's location analysis. This research presents an integration model of BIM in LEED certification to improve the efficiency of LEED's location and transportation analysis. The framework of the integration model is introduced and demonstrated using a user interface for LEED's analysis under the Autodesk Revit environment.