Sustainable building design has become a hot topic over the past decades. Many standards, databases, and tools have been developed for achieving a sustainable building. Not until recently have the importance of structural engineering and its contribution to sustainable building design been full recognised. However, due to the highly fragmented and diversity of knowledge across building and infrastructure domains, there is a lack of approach that can address all the sustainable issues within the structural design. This paper reviews the sustainable design from the perspective of structural engineering: (1) reviewing the current situation; (2) identifying the gaps and difficulties; and (3) making recommendations for future improvements. The strategies and indicators, as well as BIM-enabled methodology, for sustainable structural design (SSD) are also discussed in a holistic way. The results of this investigation show that most of the methods are not doing well in terms of delivering a successful sustainable structural design. It is expected that the future BIM could probably provide such a platform to address these issues.

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特刊“ AEC行业中的数字孪生技术”

在过去的几十年中，可持续的建筑设计已成为热门话题。已经开发了许多标准，数据库和工具来实现可持续的建筑。直到最近，人们才充分认识到结构工程的重要性及其对可持续建筑设计的贡献。但是，由于建筑和基础设施领域的知识高度分散且具有多样性，因此缺乏能够解决结构设计中所有可持续问题的方法。本文从结构工程的角度回顾了可持续性设计：（1）回顾了现状；（2）找出差距和困难；（3）为将来的改进提出建议。战略和指标以及采用BIM的方法，还以整体方式讨论了可持续结构设计（SSD）。这项调查的结果表明，大多数方法在提供成功的可持续结构设计方面效果不佳。预计未来的BIM可能会提供这样一个平台来解决这些问题。