SBIR Phase I: A Digital Design-Delivery System for the Large-scale Deployment of Mass Timber Building Technologies

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是使大规模木材系统民主化，使其在建筑，工程和建筑（AEC）行业中可访问。建筑物占所有温室气体排放量的40%，这表明迫切需要能源智能建筑原型。与竞争技术相比，大规模木材建筑需要更少的能源用于生产，并于2019年获得国际建筑规范的批准，适用于美国最高18层的结构。 然而，它们仍然无法作为一种技术，部分原因是开发商，建筑师和制造商仍然不熟悉大规模木材及其好处。这项建议旨在开发一个具有发展潜力的潜在市场，因为大量木材提供了独特的优势。由于我们的技术将适应现场的建筑解决方案集成到行业供应链中，因此旨在通过减少通常与创新技术相关的风险、障碍和成本来提高采用率。通过为设计师、工程师和建筑商提供先进的大规模木结构建筑系统，我们的提案旨在鼓励使用可持续和有利可图的技术来促进北美城市的快速城市化。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将专注于开发可复制和商业化的适应性大规模木结构建筑解决方案。这将通过设计各种经过严格测试和具有成本效益的大规模木材建筑解决方案来实现，并开发一个生成设计系统，可以使用这些预先设计的建筑解决方案生成和部署最佳建筑方案。我们技术的第一个组成部分包括开发一系列建筑规模（3-18层）和大量木材技术的预先批准的结构建筑解决方案，包括在制造商和工程师的支持下开发的新型混合结构解决方案。第二个组成部分生成系统将处理不同的发展方案，从大型城市街区到小型城市填充网站。该工具将生成各种各样的潜在兼容选项，分析和测试这些用户指定的性能指标，并在其中进行排序，以找到最佳案例的构建建议。该工具将结合在工作的第一个组成部分中开发的结构解决方案，并在其限制范围内部署它们，以针对每个开发项目的限制测试真实世界的建筑解决方案。该工具还将与现有的BIM（建筑信息建模）项目交付平台无缝集成，以实现轻松的互操作性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to democratize mass timber systems, rendering them accessible across the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Buildings account for 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions, indicating an urgent need for energy-intelligent building prototypes. Mass timber buildings require less energy for production than competitive technologies and were approved in 2019 by the International Building Code for structures of up to 18 stories in the US. Yet, they remain inaccessible as a technology, in part because developers, architects and manufacturers remain unfamiliar with mass timber and its benefits. This proposal seeks to unlock a latent market of development potential on sites to which mass timber offers unique advantages. Because our technology integrates adaptable-to-site building solutions into the industry's supply chain, it is designed to improve adoption by reducing risks, barriers, and costs usually associated with innovative technologies. By giving designers, engineers, and builders access to cutting-edge mass timber building systems, our proposal aims to encourage the use of a sustainable and profitable technology for the rapid urbanization of North American cities.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will focus on developing adaptable mass timber building solutions that are replicable and commercializable. This will be achieved by designing a variety of rigorously tested and cost-effective building solutions in mass timber and developing a generative design system that can generate and deploy optimal building proposals using these pre-designed building solutions. The first component of our technology comprises the development of pre-approved structural building solutions across a range of building scales (3-18 stories) and mass-timber technologies, including novel hybrid structural solutions developed with support from manufacturers and engineers. The second component the generative system will handle different development scenarios from large urban blocks to small urban infill sites. The tool will generate a wide variety of potential compliant options, analyze and test these for user-specified performance metrics, and sort among them to find a best-case building proposal. The tool will incorporate the structural solutions developed in the first component of the work and deploy them within their constraints to test real-world building solutions against the constraints of each development project. The tool will also seamlessly integrate with existing BIM (Building Information Modeling) project-delivery platforms for easy interoperability.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.