Construction Model Integration for Schedule and Budget Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Construction projects face challenges in accurately and efficiently updating schedules and budgets due to manual changes and lack of integration between scheduling, budgeting, and drawing modifications, leading to incomplete and outdated project data.
Innovation Solution
A network-based system and method that includes a construct computing system with a scheduler, budgeter, and drawings application, allowing for real-time modification and integration of schedules, budgets, and drawings, enabling seamless updates and data sharing across all aspects of a construction project.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual updates are used for schedules and budgets, then flexibility in modification is maintained, but accuracy and timeliness of updates deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines scheduling data, budgeting data, and drawing data into a single integrated construction model stored in a database. When any component is modified, the system automatically updates all related components, eliminating manual synchronization and ensuring data accuracy across the entire project.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements automatic feedback mechanisms where modifications to drawings, schedules, or budgets trigger automated updates to all related components. The database receives modification inputs and automatically propagates changes throughout the construction model, ensuring real-time accuracy without manual intervention.
2Reliability
If periodic updates are performed on schedules and budgets, then system stability is maintained, but timeliness and completeness of project data deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from periodic batch updates to continuous real-time updates. The database continuously receives modification inputs from any component (drawings, schedules, budgets) and immediately propagates changes throughout the construction model, ensuring project data is always current without requiring scheduled update cycles.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes relationships between all construction model components in the database before project execution. These predefined relationships enable automatic cascading updates when any component changes, eliminating the time required for manual data reconciliation and ensuring immediate timeliness of project data.
3Adaptability or versatility
If drawings are modified independently, then design flexibility is maintained, but integration with schedules and budgets deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
When drawings are modified, the system automatically detects the change and propagates the modification to related schedules and budgets through database relationships. This feedback mechanism ensures that design flexibility is maintained while integration information is preserved, as all components automatically reflect the latest drawing changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges drawings, schedules, and budgets into a unified construction model in the database, where all components are interconnected through defined relationships. This integration ensures that modifications to any component automatically update related components, maintaining both design flexibility and information integration simultaneously.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided herein is a construct computing system including a construct computing device including a processor in communication with at least one memory device. The processor is programmed to: (i) receive construction data associated with a construction project, wherein the construction data includes scheduling data, budgeting data, and drawing data, (ii) store, in the memory, the construction data, (iii) generate a schedule and a budget for the construction project based upon the construction data, (iv) receive, from a user computing device, input associated with the construction data, wherein the input includes a modification to at least one of the scheduling data, the budgeting data, and the drawings, and (v) modify at least one of the schedule, the budget, and the drawings based upon the input.