SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED BUILDING SERVICES DESIGN.

摘要

A building systems design process uses computer hardware and software to examine multiple possible solutions to the design of building services systems including plumbing, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, electrical power and lighting through automated calculation procedures and iterative computing methods (204). The process examines multiple valid solutions to the system design requirements, while preparing construction cost estimates of each valid solution examined and comparing the cost of each solution to determine the least costly solution that meets or exceeds all required design parameters entered into the system (214). The solution returned by the optimization process includes a complete representation of the best solution found placed in a CAD database ready for reproduction and use in the bidding and construction of the building (216). Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for scenario-based content categorization, retrieval, and presentation are disclosed. At a first moment in time, a first event scenario is detected by a mobile device, where the first event scenario is defined by one or more participants and one or more contextual cues concurrently monitored by the mobile device and observable to a human user of the mobile device. An information bundle is created in real-time for the first event scenario, where the information bundle includes one or more documents accessed during the first event scenario and is retrievable according to the one or more contextual cues. Access to the one or more documents is automatically provided on the mobile device during a second event scenario that is related to the first event scenario by one or more common contextual cues. Other scenario-based content retrieval and presentation methods are also disclosed. A building systems design process uses computer hardware and software to examine multiple possible solutions to the design of building services systems including plumbing, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, electrical power and lighting through automated calculation procedures and iterative computing methods (204). The process examines multiple valid solutions to the system design requirements, while preparing construction cost estimates of each valid solution examined and comparing the cost of each solution to determine the least costly solution that meets or exceeds all required design parameters entered into the system (214). The solution returned by the optimization process includes a complete representation of the best solution found placed in a CAD database ready for reproduction and use in the bidding and construction of the building (216).