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

这项小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的更广泛影响是加速AEC（建筑、工程和建筑）行业的数字化，同时使可持续建筑材料的使用民主化。该技术是首创的计算机辅助制造设计（CADfM）软件。它使架构师能够根据代码遵从性、成本管理和环境可持续性进行设计。拟议的软件将实现更大的灵活性、更低的成本、更快的项目速度、更广泛的产品选择，并增强人类在设计中的创造力。这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将使为制造而设计的架构成为可能。目前的设计过程缺乏制造的预合理化。为了提供可持续、经济高效和高密度的建筑，建筑师需要在数据丰富的空间中快速测试设计选项的工具。制造商需要将他们的产品数字化整合到建筑师的早期设计中，以防止价值工程和返工。这个软件是唯一建立在一个游戏引擎上，并拥有一个几何内核与智能建筑元素（街面，走廊，空间等）意识到他们的类型，目的和邻接关系，允许组件之间的数据通信和集成与数据库快速评估潜在的设计变化和相关的成本和效果的估计。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to accelerate the digitization of the AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) industry, while democratizing the use of sustainable building materials. The technology is a first-of-its-kind Computer Aided Design for Manufacturing (CADfM) software. It enables architects to design for code compliance, cost management, and environmental sustainability. The proposed software will enable greater flexibility, lower cost, greater project speed, wider product selection, and enhanced human creativity in design. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will enable architectural design-for-manufacturing. Current design processes lack the pre-rationalization of manufacturing. To deliver sustainable, economically efficient and high-density buildings, architects need tools to quickly test design options in a data-rich space. Manufacturers need their products digitally integrated into architects’ early designs, to prevent value-engineering and rework. This software is uniquely built on a game engine, and hosts a geometry kernel with smart building elements (façade, corridor, spaces, etc.) aware of their type, purpose and adjacencies, permitting data communication between assemblies and integration with data libraries for rapid evaluation of potential design changes and estimation of associated costs and effects.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.