18.1 Categories of Construction Automation .........................18-1 18.2 Automated Construction Equipment and Related Hardware.......................................................18-1 18.3 Economics and Management of Robots .........................18-7 18.4 Computer-Aided Design...................................................18-8 Traditional Architectural CAD Modeling • Solid Geometr...

Industrial facilities are becoming increasingly complex, which profoundly affects their planning and operation. Architectural structures, infrastructure and machines are planned using CAD software, but, typically, many alterations are made during actual construction and installation. These alterations usually do not find their way back into the CAD models. In addition, there may be a large body...

In this paper a CAD application embedding photogrammetric procedures is described. Oleg Kolbaskin has originally created the CAD application and the photogrammetric procedures were programmed in the Department of Architectural Engineering of our Institute. The software can be used from both novice and experienced users in order to provide rectified images for cultural heritage documentation usa...

Building information model is an integrated entity that consists of building information from various disciplines, such as architectural, structural, electrical, HVAC, construction management, etc. Direct data sharing and exchange between the architectural and structural disciplines without using paper-drawings is highly desirable in building design and design collaboration. However, structural...

Convergence is occurring in the fields of architectural and engineering design, construction, and GIS. The primary goal is to ensure that everyone working on a building, road or highway, and infrastructure project has a seamless flow of design information. The primary business drivers for this transformative technology advance are productivity and efficiency in the design, construction and faci...

Abstract Advances in manufacturing technologies and computational engineering are key enablers for optimized designs necessary product performance improvements. Amongst other technologies, particularly Additive Manufacturing (AM) is pushing the envelope of feasible design complexity challenging engineers as well their Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools. The research field (DfAM) provides an exha...

This paper presents the results of a study that was conducted to identify and document student perceptions of the effectiveness of computer modeling software introduced in a design foundations course that had previously utilized only conventional manually-produced representation techniques. Rather than attempt to utilize a production-oriented CAD program, this exploratory study investigated the...

Semiconductor designers are now in the business of system design and significant productivity improvements can only be reached through an additional investment upstream in architectural understanding. Chip layout strategies shall now result from such upstream decisions implying new developments in precharacterized cells used at the breadboard level, functional simulation using custom CAD tools....

2 We are here dealing with the problem of space layout planning. We present an architectural conceptual CAD approach. Starting with design specifications in terms of constraints over spaces, a specific enumeration heuristics leads to a complete set of consistent conceptual design solutions named topological solutions. These topological solutions which do not presume any precise definitive dimen...