Towards a normalized reference system in building construction planning for automated quantitative assessment and optimization of energy and cost efficiency

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

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Abstract

The conceivable future shortage in fossil resources and savings in building construction engineering for competitiveness on the market are the ecological and economic stimulus for well-considered and optimized architecture and material choice to maximize the trade-off between cost and energy optimization. BauOptimizer construction planning application allows monitoring and optimization of both, energy and cost efficiency from the very first planning iteration to the final design. Simulated building construction costs and the energy cost forecast for the next decades are linked together to establish a quantitative assessment of construction plan efficiency and further allowing to automatically evaluate all possible planning variants by altering the construction types of the walls, the windows and all other modalities. Based on the solution space of planning variants and legal norms, a construction site specific scale for assessing the quality of a single construction plan compared to the theoretically most efficient design to achieve can be performed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIT Revolutions - Third International ICST Conference, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer
Pages39-57
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9783642323034
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event3rd International ICST Conference on IT Revolutions, 2011 - Cordoba, Spain
Duration: 23 Mar 201125 Mar 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Volume82 LNICST
ISSN (Print)1867-8211

Conference

Conference3rd International ICST Conference on IT Revolutions, 2011
Country/TerritorySpain
CityCordoba
Period23.03.201125.03.2011

Keywords

  • computer-based design
  • energy and cost efficiency
  • modeling and simulation
  • multi-criteria optimization

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