it is clear that the paper lacks any literature review in association what the author is presenting. The topic of linking BIM and sustainable design in teaching is challenging but the content of this work does not reflect that. Sustainable design discussed here should reach to critical topics such as how students were able to use BIM technology to produce green design and produce architectural products minimizing environmental impact and energy consumption. The teaching course should use BIM for environmental analysis such as, orientation of the building, daylight levels analysis, overshadowing, energy and resource consumption. I am including further remarks on this paper to improve it:
- Please use building instead of difficult wording like ‘edifice’
- The organization of the paper is not easy to follow.
- Use good size of images and explain their purpose of using them as illustration within the text.
- All section provided after the conclusion are irrelative and hard to make sense of them and relate to the topic.
- Section ‘1.2’: is too long and is better broken down into smaller sections. Please avoid long paragraphs.
- Page ‘4’, second paragraph: it is not clear if the students were asked to design a standard house or remodeling an actual housing schemes provided by the Department of Housing.
- Page ‘4’, fourth paragraph: is it true that standard five to six bedroom house contains six different bathrooms. I understood that the software (presumably ArchiCAD) was used to show how to reduce the number of vertical piping shafts? Explain how? Was this really a sustainable design challenge!!!
- Page ‘4’, paragraph ‘5’: Did you mean ArchiCAD ‘Zone Stamp’ instead of ‘Room Stamp’. Please explain to the reader what useful parametric information found in the Zone Stamp.
- Page ‘4, paragraph ‘6’: I never heard of ‘Solar Geometry’ before. Perhaps the author means the wording such as ‘… the impact of geometrical solar devices (e.g. horizontal/vertical shading devices).
- Page ‘5’, paragraph ‘2’: is there a missing reference for Bruno Taut?
- Section 1.3: why suddenly discuss IFC file format and how it relates to sustainable design? As a reader I was looking forward to see gbXML file format!! In this section use proper referencing to research such as your Master thesis.
- Generally the English language is very weak and make sure to spell check.
