Construction Quantities and Cost Estimation for Building Houses and Schools in a Proposed Smart City Using BIM Techniques

International Journal of Civil Engineering

© 2025 by SSRG - IJCE Journal

Volume 12 Issue 10

Year of Publication : 2025

Authors : Ahmed Abduljabbar Luaibi, Fadi Hage Chehade, Khalid I. Hassoon

10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V12I10P108

How to Cite?

Ahmed Abduljabbar Luaibi, Fadi Hage Chehade, Khalid I. Hassoon, "Construction Quantities and Cost Estimation for Building Houses and Schools in a Proposed Smart City Using BIM Techniques," SSRG International Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 12,  no. 10, pp. 97-107, 2025. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V12I10P108

Abstract:

The concept of sustainable buildings is an important and fundamental feature of smart cities. In this research, four criteria were adopted for sustainable buildings: increasing the height of the building's ceiling, using highly insulating bricks in the walls, using glass bands on the tops of the exterior walls, and finally, using planar materials to cover the buildings. The work in this research was divided into four sequential phases. In the first phase, two-dimensional plans were obtained for the residential units and schools. In the second phase, the plans of the first phase were converted to three-dimensional plans according to the Revit software package. In the third phase, all detailed schedules of quantities for the building were entered, as for the school building in both its states (sustainable and non-sustainable), the secondary phases for representing the building are (foundation, ground and first floors, flattening and finishing). Finally, the fourth phase was allocated to calculating the estimated costs for all residential units and schools within the proposed innovative City. The study showed that the estimated cost of the housing and education sector (for sustainable buildings) increased by 55% compared to the cost of non-sustainable buildings.

Keywords:

Smart City, Construction Project Management, Building Information Modeling, Sustainable Building.

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