TAD | Render

Render

Render is a team of talented architects and designers, estimators and engineers who are able to cope with project development at the highest level. The company’s specialists are able not only to create and prepare all the necessary documentation and drawings, to breathe beauty and aesthetics into them, to create a complete image of the object, but also to calculate the reliability and safety of a building or space, the speed of construction and the uniqueness of the project, which is highly valued in the modern market. High professionalism and a creative atmosphere that reigns during work, attention to the smallest details, consistency of results - all this makes the Render company one of the best companies in the field of engineering and design.

What we did

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2020 — 2021

Moscow

BIM System

Background

The need to automate and speed up the work of professionals in the construction industry, mainly architects, at the stage of digital modelling of construction projects.

It was important for the customer to get a solution that would

Eliminate technological errors in the design process
Improve the quality of design solutions
meet all the requirements of the legislation related to engineering and construction
Enable fast re-calculating when object parameters change

Project Description

The project consisted of two stages:

Stage 1: First release.

At this stage of the project, we paid particular attention to researching the client's needs and the capabilities of the BIM (Building Information Model)* system.

During the R&D phase, we received and analysed a large amount of information, tested several hypotheses with the client and defined the functionality required for the first development phase.

The result, which fully met the client's expectations, was a user-friendly application developed in Unity, Reach and C#.

Stage 2: Optimisation of the calculation algorithms

In the second stage, we worked on improving the quality and accuracy of calculating the useful built area. To achieve this, we developed a new algorithm for calculating the useful volume of multi-dimensional polyhedrons, which allowed us to increase the speed of calculating.

It is important to note that all the project documentation has been kept in a consolidated information space. This will allow the project to be supported in the future with a minimum of resources spent on immersion in the processes.

The solution allows to create variants of buildings on different areas. The available configurations of building objects are indicated.

The solution considers and provides variants with maximum usable building surface (height, occupation) with the following characteristics

Minimum distance between objects
Minimum distance from the built area boundaries
Location of objects relative to cardinal directions
Location of objects on the adjacent areas
Requirements of natural and artificial lighting standards for building objects

First, the user defines:

Area boundaries and size
Specification of the background in order to orientate it in relation to the real geographical topography
the position of the cardinal directions
Boundary parameters between objects
Templates of the objects to be developed

As a result, the system provides construction variants. The user can choose the necessary and interesting one. The variants can be viewed in 2D and 3D. They can also be downloaded.

*Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility.

Result

Demonstration of the result

We have developed a unique BIM solution that allows different variants of objects to be constructed on the area depending on the specified parameters and based on the legislation and individual needs of the client.

The system takes into account all regulations and types of construction, town planning standards, external influences and fans. It also simulates the effect of sunlight on the objects.

The BIM system generates several design options at the same time. It suggests the most efficient ones - with the most useful use of living space.

Digital models take into account the basic possibility of creating objects, possibilities of combining objects, their area and maximum storey.

The functionality of the solution is adaptive, including

three-dimensional and two-dimensional modelling of real objects according to the defined parameters. The visualisation is interactive: All objects are modelled in 3D, a raster image texture with the area boundary is displayed;

possibility to switch on/off the display of the useful area and the vectors, showing the cut-off segments;

possibility to view analysis history, modify parameters at any stage and run model calculations with new specifications;

possibility to upload any of the model variants in the fbx format and to obtain all the summary information (volume, area, number of storeys per object, etc.) for each of them.