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This work presents the development of a multicriteria method to
evaluate real estate investments based on Building Information
Modeling (BIM). Information on possibilities in construction,
renovation, expansion, acquisition or rental of buildings is used
to enable a decision-making process. The BIM digital models
contain building information from planning, execution and as
built. The model contains the different representations of top,
front view, plants and internal cuts besides the volume. The
elements are refined and have the digital representation of data
or information of a real estate business project and bring diverse
possibilities of analysis. The choice among the available
undertakings and the investments to be made is a complex
problem that involves relationships between the goals and criteria
of each project. The proposed method classifies the undertakings
projects using objective criteria based on information
automatically obtained from the digital models. It also considers
intangible criteria, which are subjective evaluations based on the
experience of specialists in the area. This comparative method
among project alternatives has proven to be feasible and quite
useful, as shown in the case study presented, and it can be further
improved by developing a recommender system based on
historical data from previous evaluations.
