TY  - CONF
TI  - Ecofix- a PyRevit prototype for a Lean and sustainable renovation decision support tool
C1  - Singapore, Singapore
C3  - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34)
SP  - 438
EP  - 448
PY  - 2026
DO  - 10.24928/2026/0141
AU  - Bharadwaj, Narmada
AU  - Ramani, Prasanna Venkatesan
AU  - Ali, Mushrifa
AU  - Sureshkumar, Saran Somapalli
AU  - Tumma, Harshitha
AD  - Masters Student, School of Civil Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India,narmada.bharadwaj2024@vitstudent.ac.in
AD  - Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India, prasanna.venkatesan@vit.ac.in, orcid.org/0000-0002-6924-9520
AD  - Doctoral Research Scholar, School of Civil Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India, mushrifa.ali2023@vitstudent.ac.in, orcid.org/0009-0000-3444-5874
AD  - Masters Student, School of Civil Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India, saran.ss2024@vitstudent.ac.in
AD  - Masters Student, School of Civil Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India, tumma.harshitha2024@vitstudent.ac.in
ED  - Hamzeh, Farook
ED  - Poshdar, Mani
ED  - Garcia-Lopez,, Nelly P.
AB  - Renovation and adaptive reuse offer sustainable alternatives in the construction industry, but are underused due to a lack of integrated decision support tools, which can aid during the design stage. This paper presents Ecofix, a prototype developed using PyRevit, which acts as an integrated sustainable renovation decision support tool inside Autodesk Revit environment. This tool is developed using Python, and it assists designers and engineers to evaluate various retrofit, demolition, demolition with rebuild, retain, and new build scenarios using lean and sustainable design principles. This tool automatically extracts the material and quantity data from Revit, calculates and gives a comparative report for retrofit, demolition, rebuild, reuse, retain and new build. It takes carbon dioxide equivalent, cost, and time required to complete the work based on the quantity selected by the user into account. Ecofix aligns with lean and green by embedding waste-free decision support inside Revit. This tool eliminates lean wastes (information transfer, time, over-processing) by automatically taking Revit quantities and ranking retrofit, demolish, rebuild, and retain options by carbon dioxide equivalent, cost and time. The prototype enables Set-Based Design and material waste elimination through salvage/reuse quantification, prioritising lowest-carbon scenarios while maximising circular economy benefits.
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - lean and green
KW  - set-based design
KW  - renovation decision support
KW  - and digitalisation and lean.
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34)
DA  - 2026/06/22
CY  - Singapore, Singapore
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2462/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2462
N1  - Export Date: 19 June 2026
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -