Automated Mechanical Systems Modeling for Construction Projects
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional design and construction processes for building mechanical systems are time-consuming and lack efficient means to store, manage, and communicate detailed knowledge and professional experience across disciplines, leading to slow and inaccurate design, cost, and schedule responses.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented automated modeling system integrated with a computer-integrated manufacturing environment, using parametric objects and a spatial database to create a complete mechanical system model, enabling rapid assembly, cost estimation, and scheduling, while allowing for data exchange and clash detection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional drafting and CAD techniques are used to disseminate information involved in designing and detailing a construction project, then information can be communicated between disciplines, but the process becomes time-consuming and requires high-level interdisciplinary communication and management
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple disciplines (architecture, engineering, construction management) into a single integrated computer-implemented system. The system consolidates design, cost estimation, and scheduling functions into one unified platform, eliminating the need for separate drafting and CAD processes while reducing interdisciplinary communication overhead through automated data exchange between integrated modules.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates digital copies of traditional design and construction processes through parametric modeling. By representing building components as parameterized objects with embedded knowledge, the system replicates and automates expert knowledge without requiring human experts to manually transfer information between disciplines, thereby preserving detailed knowledge while dramatically reducing time requirements.
2Reliability
If traditional design processes are used to respond to clients' requests for building designs, cost estimates, and construction schedules, then information can be provided to clients, but the response time is slow and delivery time is extended
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service through automated configuration and estimation capabilities. When project parameters are input, the system automatically configures mechanical systems, calculates costs, and generates schedules without requiring manual intervention from designers or estimators. This automation maintains accuracy through consistent application of embedded expertise while dramatically increasing productivity by eliminating manual calculation and documentation time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-programming design rules, cost relationships, and scheduling logic into the parametric objects before actual project work begins. This preliminary configuration allows the system to automatically generate accurate designs, estimates, and schedules simply by inputting project parameters, thereby maintaining reliability while achieving rapid response to client requests.
3Manufacturing precision
If traditional processes are used to develop design, cost, and schedule information, then comprehensive information can be generated, but the overall project delivery time is extended and expenses increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical processes (drafting, calculation, estimation) with an automated computer-based system. The system substitutes human experts' manual work with algorithmic processing of parametric objects, maintaining the precision of expert-level budget estimates through embedded cost data and relationships while reducing project delivery time by eliminating manual iteration and communication cycles between disciplines.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-implemented automated building mechanical systems design and modeling is described. The system provides a central source for all of the design and construction information for systems in a construction project in a coordinated two-dimensional and three-dimensional spatial database that is accessible as a means to produce automatically coordinated design development and construction document information of the mechanical systems. The system acquires and stores all of the appropriate design, engineering, and construction expertise information available for any building type for use in automatically assembling and coordinating the design, cost-estimating, and scheduling for the mechanical systems of the construction project. The system output model enables automatic generation of drawings and cost, manufacturing and scheduling information.