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The notion of pre-construction, post-occupancy evaluation of buildings may sound like a hypothetical brain-teaser. But the best current AEC software actually combines the ability to manage geometry, or what a building looks like, with the data attributes of all the building components represented by that geometry.
Comprehensive sets of design and construction data, from specifications of building materials to operational characteristics of building equipment, can go beyond serving the design information needs of architects and their clients, such as defining the building's appearance, how people will move through it, and what will be their likely experience of ...