The IFC Green plugin is a tool used to determine the impact of project elements on the environment based on material characteristics related to the product life cycle analysis (LCA).
The plugin is installed in the PLUGINS tab as three icons in the IFC Green group: Import, Measurement and Report. While working with this plugin, the user also uses the context menu (right-click on the selected element) and measurement tools located in the main BIMvision interface – the MEASUREMENT tab.
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During the installation of the plugin, an editable database is created in the Documents folder of the computer, which is adapted to its editing and expansion with subsequent items.
After loading the model, for each of the elements, the appropriate parameters should be defined based on the loaded database. So-called reference units appear here. These units will determine what quantity we will measure in order to calculate the impact on the environment. And so, when the reference value is defined by the surface of the element, we perform the measurement of the surface and transfer this value to the table with the Measurement icon. The plugin calculates the global value as the product of the reference value and the measured value.
After performing the above actions for each element, you can save this state to a BVF file in order to reopen and continue work in the future, as well as prepare a summary report calculating the environmental impact of the project elements.
