Automated building construction design optimization for reduction of construction costs and energy demand

Gerald Adam Zwettler; Stefan Hinterholzer; Florian Waschaurek; Richard Woschitz; Elmar Hagmann; Paul Track

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27549-4_28

Automated building construction design optimization for reduction of construction costs and energy demand

Gerald Adam Zwettler, Stefan Hinterholzer, Florian Waschaurek, Richard Woschitz, Elmar Hagmann, Paul Track

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Abstract

Considering both, the ecological and economical aspects in building construction engineering, is of high importance for a balanced and efficient building design. For high competitiveness on the markets, the need for novel efficiency metrics and automated optimization of the building plan arises. We introduce an efficiency measure for balancing the trade-off between construction cost and the heating demand as energy efficiency aspect. Thereby the building physics are precisely modeled and all possible variations of the particular material choice can be evaluated via simulation. By considering all possible variations of the particular plan, a large multi-dimensional search space can be defined, allowing search for the optimal design utilizing heuristic methods. Exploitation of the search space allows the quantitative assessment of plans with respect to the theoretical optimum and generally the qualitative comparison of different construction settings and different material choice for development of current best standard practice in building construction engineering.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2011 - 13th International Conference, Revised Selected Papers
Pages	216-223
Number of pages	8
Edition	PART 1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27549-4_28
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	13th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Eurocast 2011 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Duration: 6 Feb 2011 → 11 Feb 2011 http://www.iuctc.ulpgc.es/spain/eurocast2011/

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Number	PART 1
Volume	6927 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	13th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Eurocast 2011
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Period	06.02.2011 → 11.02.2011
Internet address	http://www.iuctc.ulpgc.es/spain/eurocast2011/

Keywords

energy and cost efficiency
modeling and simulation
multi-criteria optimization

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Zwettler, G. A., Hinterholzer, S., Waschaurek, F., Woschitz, R., Hagmann, E., & Track, P. (2012). Automated building construction design optimization for reduction of construction costs and energy demand. In Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2011 - 13th International Conference, Revised Selected Papers (PART 1 ed., pp. 216-223). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6927 LNCS, No. PART 1). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27549-4_28

Zwettler, Gerald Adam ; Hinterholzer, Stefan ; Waschaurek, Florian et al. / Automated building construction design optimization for reduction of construction costs and energy demand. Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2011 - 13th International Conference, Revised Selected Papers. PART 1. ed. 2012. pp. 216-223 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); PART 1).

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Zwettler, GA , Hinterholzer, S, Waschaurek, F, Woschitz, R, Hagmann, E & Track, P 2012, Automated building construction design optimization for reduction of construction costs and energy demand. in Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2011 - 13th International Conference, Revised Selected Papers. PART 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), no. PART 1, vol. 6927 LNCS, pp. 216-223, 13th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Eurocast 2011, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 06.02.2011. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27549-4_28

Automated building construction design optimization for reduction of construction costs and energy demand. / Zwettler, Gerald Adam ; Hinterholzer, Stefan; Waschaurek, Florian et al.
Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2011 - 13th International Conference, Revised Selected Papers. PART 1. ed. 2012. p. 216-223 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6927 LNCS, No. PART 1).

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