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INTERFACING BIM WITH BUILDING THERMAL AND DAYLIGHTING MODELING Wei Yan, Mark Clayton, Jeff Haberl, WoonSeong Jeong, Jong Bum Kim, Sandeep Kota, Jose Luis Bermudez Alcocer, and Manish Dixit Texas AM University, College Station, USA We have created two corresponding prototypes ABSTRACT demonstrating our methods: BIM to Thermal and This paper presents our research and development of BIM to Daylighting. The prototypes are created using system interfaces between Building Information the BIM authoring tool Autodesk Revit and its API, Modeling (BIM) and Building Energy Modeling and simulation tools including Lawrence Berkeley (BEM), for supporting integrated architectural design National Laboratory (LBNL)’s Modelica Buildings and energy simulation. Our methods utilize the BIM library for thermal modeling and Radiance/DAYSIM authoring tools’ Application Programming Interface for daylighting modeling. The results show that BIM (API) to translate BIM into Object-Oriented Physical models created in Revit can be converted into Models (in Modelica) for building thermal Modelica thermal models and Radiance/DAYSIM simulation, and input files of ray-tracing software daylighting models through automated steps with (Radiance) for daylighting simulation. Based on the high efficiency and accuracy. methods, we have created two prototypes: The following sections will present details of the Revit2Modelica and Revit2Radiance . Using these research me