US 11,875,296 B2
Optimizing building design and architecture for sustainability certification
David Benjamin, Brooklyn, NY (US); Damon Lau, New York, NY (US); James Stoddart, Atlanta, GA (US); Lorenzo Villaggi, Brooklyn, NY (US); Rui Wang, New York, NY (US); and Lindsey Wikstrom, West New York, NJ (US)
Assigned to AUTODESK, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by AUTODESK, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 13, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/098,280.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/937,190, filed on Nov. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0150089 A1, May 20, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0639 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0633 (2023.01); G06Q 10/047 (2023.01); G06F 30/13 (2020.01); G06Q 10/101 (2023.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06Q 50/16 (2012.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01); G06F 30/28 (2020.01); G06Q 10/0637 (2023.01); G06Q 10/067 (2023.01); G06F 30/18 (2020.01); G06Q 50/08 (2012.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06F 111/04 (2020.01); G06F 111/02 (2020.01); G06F 111/10 (2020.01); G06F 119/02 (2020.01)
CPC G06Q 10/06393 (2013.01) [G06F 16/9024 (2019.01); G06F 30/13 (2020.01); G06F 30/18 (2020.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01); G06F 30/28 (2020.01); G06Q 10/047 (2013.01); G06Q 10/067 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0633 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06375 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06395 (2013.01); G06Q 10/101 (2013.01); G06Q 50/08 (2013.01); G06Q 50/163 (2013.01); G06Q 50/165 (2013.01); G06F 2111/02 (2020.01); G06F 2111/04 (2020.01); G06F 2111/10 (2020.01); G06F 2119/02 (2020.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for computationally evaluating sustainability of building designs, the method comprising:
receiving design data for a building design and sustainability certification data describing a plurality of sustainability certification systems that are applicable to a location of the building design, wherein, for each sustainability certification system included in the plurality of sustainability certification systems, the sustainability certification data includes a plurality of sustainability categories, and, for each category included in the plurality of sustainability categories, the sustainability certification data includes:
a plurality of certification levels or ratings for the sustainability category, and
a plurality of scores corresponding to the plurality of certification levels or ratings;
selecting, based on one or more attributes of the building design included in the design data, one or more particular sustainability certification systems from the plurality of sustainability certification systems;
computing a respective sustainability certification value for each sustainability certification system of the one or more particular sustainability certification systems; and
performing one or more building design operations based on sustainability certification values for the one or more particular sustainability certification systems.