	US 12,327,070 B2
	Cloud-enabled generation of construction metrics and documentation
Patrick Liam Colm Tierney, Berkeley, CA (US); and Abhijit Oak, Orinda, CA (US)
Assigned to AUTODESK, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Autodesk, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/046,819.
Application 18/046,819 is a continuation of application No. 15/331,212, filed on Oct. 21, 2016, granted, now 11,481,526.
Prior Publication US 2023/0065286 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 30/13 (2020.01); G06Q 50/08 (2012.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 111/02 (2020.01)

CPC G06F 30/13 (2020.01) [G06Q 50/08 (2013.01); G06F 9/44526 (2013.01); G06F 2111/02 (2020.01)]

20 Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for generating construction metrics, comprising:

(a) gathering, in a computer, work practices for one or more companies, wherein:

(1) the work practices comprise building means, methods and limitations of construction;

(2) the building means, methods and limitations of construction comprise;

(i) specific means and methods of a construction process for the one or more companies; and

(ii) a length of time to perform the methods;

(3) the limitations comprise limitations of construction and limitations of types of construction for each of the one or more companies;

(4) the building means, methods, and limitations of construction are independent of a particular building information model (BIM);

(5) the work practices are gathered independently from a digital BIM that is used to generate construction metrics;

(b) acquiring, in the computer, a digital BIM;

(c) extracting, in the computer, fabrication and construction parameters from the digital BIM, wherein the fabrication and construction parameters comprise every geometric element that requires a unit of construction or fabrication work;

(d) automatically generating, in the computer, the construction metrics for the digital BIM by:

(1) combining the building means, methods, and limitations with the extracted fabrication and construction parameters, wherein the construction metrics comprise the cost and construction time for a project of the digital BIM;

(2) optimizing the digital BIM by:

(i) adjusting the fabrication and construction parameters for the digital BIM;

(ii) combining the adjusted fabrication and construction parameters for the digital BIM with one or more of the one or more companies; and

(iii) iterating the adjusting and combining steps to determine an optimal configuration based on cost, wherein the optimal configuration is for an optimized digital BIM; and

(3) automatically generating, in the computer, the construction metrics for the optimized digital BIM;

(e) visualizing and displaying the construction metrics in a modeling application.