Research Article
Towards a Normalized Reference System in Building Construction Planning for Automated Quantitative Assessment and Optimization of Energy and Cost Efficiency
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-32304-1_5, author={Gerald Zwettler and Paul Track and Florian Waschaurek and Richard Woschitz and Elmar Hagmann and Stefan Hinterholzer}, title={Towards a Normalized Reference System in Building Construction Planning for Automated Quantitative Assessment and Optimization of Energy and Cost Efficiency}, proceedings={IT Revolutions. Third International ICST Conference, C\^{o}rdoba, Spain, March 23-25, 2011, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={IT REVOLUTIONS}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={modeling and simulation energy and cost efficiency multi-criteria optimization computer-based design}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-32304-1_5} }- Gerald Zwettler
Paul Track
Florian Waschaurek
Richard Woschitz
Elmar Hagmann
Stefan Hinterholzer
Year: 2012
Towards a Normalized Reference System in Building Construction Planning for Automated Quantitative Assessment and Optimization of Energy and Cost Efficiency
IT REVOLUTIONS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32304-1_5
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. 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.
