Intrinsic
Incorporation of GenerativeComponents
Computational Design and
AECOsim
Energy Simulator Advance Conceptioneering
LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure
2015 Conference – 6 December 2015 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a
leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing
infrastructure, today reported how noteworthy building and infrastructure
projects are benefiting from the pacesetting BIM advancements empowered by AECOsim
Building
Designer V8i for the architectural design
and multi-discipline engineering of facilities. In the 2015 Be
Inspired Awards program, 60 nominees, spanning 20 countries and
representing a diverse range of infrastructure projects, credited Bentley’s AECOsim
Building Designer innovations. Examples of projects that have benefited
from AECOsim Building Designer’s BIM advancements, along with a
brief description of advantages gained, immediately follow the product
advancement update below.
Product Advancement Update: Conceptioneering
and Optioneering
Commenting on the latest advancements in
AECOsim
Building Designer, Santanu
Das, Bentley Systems senior vice president, design and simulation, said,
“Increasingly,
AECOsim Building Designer is
setting the pace for the unconstrained architectural design and
engineering of buildings of any size or scope. Now with the V8i
(SELECTseries 6) version, we’ve added innovative capabilities for what we call conceptioneering,
bringing
analytical modeling and design modeling
together in the early conceptual stages of a building project to help create
effective design strategies to meet building performance objectives.”
Through conceptioneering at the
project outset, users are able to balance the demands of creative
infrastructure designs with the financial, environmental, and engineering
performance requirements of modern infrastructure projects. In conceptioneering,
users consider the larger issues to help shape the project’s approach to
meeting the programmatic requirements. Accordingly, conceptioneering
spans context capture through compelling communication of a design proposal.
Throughout the project, users explore design alternatives through optioneering,
applying engineering analyses to improve decision making.
In AECOsim Building Designer V8i
(SELECTseries 6), GenerativeComponents’ proven technology now intrinsically drives
BIM intelligence for computational design. This enables designers to explore
more possibilities in less time, create better designs, and efficiently create
and manage complex geometric relationships.
The latest AECOsim Building Designer
now also features enhanced integration with
AECOsim Energy
Simulator for indicative
energy performance simulation at the conceptioneering
stage to enable better-informed decisions. AECOsim Building Designer can
produce Analytical Space Models at later stages for optioneering by AECOsim
Energy Simulator’s more detailed energy analyses, to continuously
assure that the high-performance potential is fully realized.
Das
added, “In 2016, conceptioneering and optioneering for AECOsim
Building Designer will be further extended through CONNECT Edition
Scenario Services, a cloud-based service for unlimited computational
capability. With more rapid turnaround for building analysis, users will be
able to evaluate a far greater number of alternatives than would otherwise be
possible, to further leverage the analytical modeling capabilities of
GenerativeComponents and AECOsim
Energy Simulator.”
Examples of Projects Crediting AECOsim
Building Designer
Interdisciplinary Federation Across
Stakeholders
Morphosis Architects is
an interdisciplinary practice involved in rigorous design and research
that yields innovative, iconic buildings and urban environments. Morphosis
recently employed AECOsim Building Designer on the Bill and Melinda
Gates Hall, Cornell University project in Ithaca, New York.
Throughout the design of the project an integrated and iterative 3D
process was employed, which allowed Morphosis to efficiently and effectively
communicate design ideas to consultants and the client. By using a federated
approach, the design team was able to create a holistic view of the building
and provide a single source of information for the project from early concepts
through construction administration. The integrated model increased the design
team’s productivity and reduced the staff required to design, document, and
coordinate the deliverables. Said Cory Brugger, director of design technology,
Morphosis Architects,
“The success of this highly innovative,
award-winning project was supported by
Bentley’s modeling platform, which
provided an environment for the development and communication of accurate and
highly interoperable information for all stakeholders in the project.”
A Construction Museum Dream: Halving Project
Duration while Reducing Errors
Sichuan
Provincial Architectural Design and Research Institute,
a large architectural design consultant organization providing
professional services to urban construction and development, employed AECOsim
Building Designer on the Panzhihua Three-line Construction Museum
project in Sichuan, China. This key cultural facility is innovatively
shaped like flower petals and has a floor space of 40,000 square meters.
AECOsim Building Designer’s
advancements helped shorten the project time by 60 percent. In
addition, they helped reduce design errors by 80 percent, increased design
depth by 50 percent, and shortened
design time from an anticipated 14 months to 7 months.
Optioneering through
Computational Design
Scheiwiller
Svensson Arkitektkontor AB, a leading architectural firm in
office, housing, retail, and industrial infrastructure, needed to
maintain a very complex process involving several contractors in the creation
of the NOD open public arena and business center in Stockholm, Sweden.
GenerativeComponents was used at the beginning of the
process to test some façade ideas, and AECOsim Building Designer was
used for 3D simulation of installations and collision control. The ability to
generate 3D PDFs made for fast communication with clients, consultants, and
tenants, and proved to be crucial to the project being completed for lower than
the estimated budget. Automated quantification and smart construction of 2D
drawings from 3D models significantly reduced the team’s workload.
Ensuring Quality and Precision for
Sustainability
AG5 is a full
service architectural studio focused on contextual sustainability, value design,
and integrated technology. AG5 Partner Brian Sheldon said, “We employ BIM at an
expert level to ensure quality and precision in our work, and we do this using
Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer.”
AG5 used AECOsim Building Designer on the
Gran
Rubina Tower in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.
The tower was designed in partnership with PDW, an Indonesian
architectural firm. AG5 won the 2014 International Property Awards architecture
prize for the tower’s first stage for its sustainable office complex. The
22-story tower uses 30 percent less energy than typical skyscrapers in the
region.
About AECOsim Building Designer
AECOsim Building Designer empowers
multi-discipline teams to deliver high-performance buildings through BIM
advancements. It provides a robust, scalable, and
computational design environment that
enables architects and engineers to easily and efficiently collaborate,
integrate information, clearly communicate design intent, model anything, and
simulate and predict real-world performance, including evaluating alternatives
through conceptioneering at the project outset and optioneering
throughout.
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