COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED AUTOMATED BUILDING DESIGN AND MODELING AND PROJECT COST ESTIMATION AND SCHEDULING SYSTEM

摘要

A computer-implemented automated building design, modeling, construction project cost estimating and scheduling system (110) is disclosed. The DMES system provides a central source for all design and construction information for a construction project in a coordinated two- and three-dimensional spatial database that is freely accessible by all members of an interdisciplinary construction project team. The DMES system acquires and stores all appropriate design, engineering and construction expertise and information available for any building type for use in automatically assembling and coordinating the design, cost-estimating (174), and scheduling (172, 176) for a construction project.