Building design revisions are inevitable since building design is heavily dependent on experience and engineering knowledge. Moreover, Building Information Modeling (BIM)-based design is comprehensive in its information, which results in a represen-tation of much more dependencies of building components. Design revisions can be-come challenging, because the integrity of dependencies must be maintained to en-sure the desired functionalities of a design. Consequently, initial changes can propa-gate through dependencies, affecting other parts of the design. Such Change Propa-gation (CP) processes can only be manually addressed. Therefore, this thesis pro-posed a BIM-based Change Management (CM) framework to automatically handle CP caused by revisions. Based on the framework, a Design Revision Manager (DRM) was developed, which makes contributions to improving decision-making in building design revisions by analyzing potential effects of CP and keeping them avail-able for designers before any decisions are made. Moreover, the built-in versioning and search systems are responsible for keeping track of the current state of a design and retrieving information regarding dependencies respectively. Thereafter, the pro-totype was tested in real building design scenarios, proving that the availability of the dependency network, the effects of CP, and the documentation of building design revisions beforehand can contribute to decision-making.     «

Building design revisions are inevitable since building design is heavily dependent on experience and engineering knowledge. Moreover, Building Information Modeling (BIM)-based design is comprehensive in its information, which results in a represen-tation of much more dependencies of building components. Design revisions can be-come challenging, because the integrity of dependencies must be maintained to en-sure the desired functionalities of a design. Consequently, initial changes can propa-gat...     »