Journal of Information Technology in Construction
Journal of Information Technology in Construction
ITcon Vol. 31, pg. 398-419, http://www.itcon.org/2026/18
Extending building lifespan: Integrating BIM and MCDM for strategic rehabilitation
| DOI: | 10.36680/j.itcon.2026.018 | |
| submitted: | May 2025 | |
| published: | April 2026 | |
| editor(s): | Kumar B | |
| authors: | Víctor Fernández-Mora, PhD
Dept. of Construction Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, 46022, Valencia, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4453-0575 vicfermo@arq.upv.es Ignacio J. Navarro , Associate Professor Institute of Concrete Science and Technology (ICITECH), Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, 46022, Valencia, Spain https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2181-789X ignamar1@upvnet.upv.es Víctor Yepes, Professor Institute of Concrete Science and Technology (ICITECH), Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, 46022, Valencia, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5488-6001 vyepesp@cst.upv.es | |
| summary: | Building renovation is essential to reduce environmental impacts and address social demands, yet structural rehabilitation planning remains uncertain and disruptive. This paper presents Endurify 2.0, a BIM-based automated scheduling system for structural maintenance that estimates the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of reinforced concrete beams and automatically generates multi-phase rehabilitation plans. By minimizing manual planning input and integrating maintenance data into the BIM model, the system serves as a decision-support tool that enhances the efficiency and accuracy of rehabilitation planning. The tool combines analytical models for four damage indicators to define element-level intervention thresholds. These outputs feed a multi-criteria decision-making framework, economic cost, and two social criteria are weighted, and TOPSIS selects the optimal rehabilitation schedule. The method is validated on a residential building with 191 beams, 139 exhibiting damage. Compared to expert-based planning, the automated approach reduces total cost by 15% and proximity impact by 10%, while maintaining structural safety. | |
| keywords: | BIM, structural performance, MCDM, rehabilitation planning, data-driven decision-making, lifecycle analysis | |
| full text: | (PDF file, 1.708 MB) | |
| citation: | Fernández-Mora, V., Navarro, I. J., & Yepes, V. (2026). Extending building lifespan: Integrating BIM and MCDM for strategic rehabilitation. Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon), 31, 398-419. https://doi.org/10.36680/j.itcon.2026.018 | |
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