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Constructive analyses: data-centric AEC software helps architects evaluate the entire life cycle of buildings before they're built.

Computer Graphics World

| August 01, 2002 | Laiserin, Jerry | COPYRIGHT 2002 PennWell Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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