GD-MEP aims to develop a software application to guide engineering and construction practitioners and personnel in creating efficient fabrication and assembly workflows of construction-associated MEP components. This is achieved by developing and implementing an integrated and automated design and optimization approach while combining several leading software packages such as Autodesk Revit BIM, Dynamo for Revit, Autodesk Forge, and Autodesk Simulation.
Challenges
The proposed project is novel and timely in the sense that hardly any work has been reported on the topic. As such, several challenges may arise during the implementation from computational design to optimization to software development. In this case, the project necessitates students from different backgrounds and versed in design, programming, and simulation skills mostly related to construction-associated, prefabricated components and assemblies (refer to disciplines/methods, majors, and skills below).
Methods
Parametric modeling
BIM
Computational design
Optimization
Generative design
Design for Manufacture and Assembly(DfMA)
API design
Automation
Academic Majors of Interest
Civil Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Computer Science/ Computer Engineering
Architecture
Preferred Skills
Design and construction principles
Computer-Aided Design(CAD)
Design and Computer skills
Software development
Programming
Engineering simulation
Students
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