Comparative study-bim technologies in building: sustainable architecture

It can be stated that the drawing never had a beginning and will never end, since the human being has always had the need to express and communicate through a non-verbal language [1]. Added to this evolution to a continuous and unstoppable progress of the different graphic methods that the human being has been adopting throughout history, we must focus on the confluence that is taking place between the objectives of both types of drawing: artistic and technical [2]. It is at this moment when a takeoff to virtual reality in 3D occurs without apparent purpose. Thus, from the appearance of the first computer-aided design software until the birth of the Building Information Modeling concept (BIM) [3]. This, so unknown to many, is bringing a new vision of work in the field of architecture and building causing some professionals to act reluctantly. Not only with this new work system, but with the applications and tools it offers, such as those focused on the analysis of the energy consumption of a building [4]. That is why this study arises from the need for certainty about the capabilities of the different programs offered by the market related to BIM technologies applied to the field of construction, given the multitude of existing possibilities at global level the uncertainty at the time of decision to use one or the other It is a dissection of the capacity, potential and reliability of the different BIM construction information modeling software focused on the tools that each of them possess for the energy analysis of a building. It includes an individual study of two of the BIM alternatives that currently exist in the global market (Revit and ArchiCAD), from a confrontation of the data obtained through the various tools focused on the energy efficiency of each of the software that is going to analyze, for a later conclusion about which is the most complete in this field according to the parameters in which we are interested in deepen and whose data are of proven reliability. This research work has a great weight in the field of building, since, although there are comparative studies between both programs, there is none that focuses on the application of the same to energy efficiency.