Concurrent Project Delivery System for Workspace Layout Validation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current workspace development processes are inefficient, leading to misunderstandings, wasted time, and money due to limited visualization capabilities and manual revisions in the design phase, resulting in suboptimal designs and prolonged project timelines.
Innovation Solution
The Concurrent Project Delivery system (CPDS) integrates a business profiles engine, feasibility engine, design component engine, modularity planner, and concurrent manager to streamline physical space planning, enabling real-time visualization, quick modifications, and concurrent development, ensuring designs align with project constraints and client approval.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional manual design and revision processes are used, then design flexibility is maintained, but project timeline is prolonged and productivity is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple previously separate tools (space planning, cost estimation, scheduling, visualization) into a single integrated concurrent project delivery system. This integration allows real-time communication between different project aspects, eliminating manual revision cycles and significantly reducing project timelines while maintaining design flexibility through the unified system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a centralized digital platform as an intermediary that coordinates all project elements. This mediator enables real-time data exchange between design components, cost parameters, scheduling requirements, and stakeholder feedback, replacing traditional manual coordination processes and accelerating project delivery.
2Manufacturing precision
If detailed design revisions are made manually, then design precision can be achieved, but time and resources are wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary feasibility analysis, cost estimation, and scheduling validation during the initial design phase rather than waiting for manual reviews. This preliminary action identifies potential issues early, allowing design precision to be achieved without repeated revision cycles and reducing overall revision time.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated system implements real-time feedback loops where design changes automatically trigger updates in cost estimates, scheduling impacts, and visualization. This continuous feedback mechanism maintains design accuracy while eliminating the time loss associated with manual revision cycles by providing instant validation and adjustment capabilities.
3Reliability
If comprehensive project constraints are enforced, then design quality is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs universal constraint management mechanisms that handle multiple types of project constraints (budget, timeline, spatial, regulatory) through a single integrated framework. This multi-functional approach ensures design quality by enforcing comprehensive constraints while avoiding the complexity of separate management systems for each constraint type.
4Ease of operation
If real-time visualization is provided, then client approval is enhanced, but computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates digital visual copies and representations of the physical workspace design that can be viewed and interacted with in real-time. These digital copies provide comprehensive visualization for client approval while consuming minimal computational resources compared to creating or manipulating physical models, enabling ease of operation without excessive energy usage.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods provide improved physical space planning and development. One or more network devices obtain a business profile of a workgroup using an activity-based workspace and determine space requirements for the business profile. The network devices store component parameters for design components that can potentially be deployed to the activity-based workspace and solicit, via a graphical user interface, a workspace layout for the activity-based workspace. The soliciting includes providing a list of the design components that can be selectively placed within the workspace layout. The network devices receive, via the graphical user interface, design components within the workspace layout to create a proposed design; generate an interactive three-dimensional rendering of the proposed design; validate project timeline for the activity-based workspace, based on the proposed design and the stored parameters for the design components in the proposed design; and verify the proposed design against the space requirements.