Automatic simulation and carbon analysis for architecture design

This paper presents computational work in building information management, data interoperability, and data population, to support automatic carbon analysis. The goal is to build an effective design support tool to help maintain a carbon perspective during building design, and as such accuracy and ease of use are pertinent objectives. This entails computational capability to automatically manage information flows between different domains and tools and generate useful operative information for design decisions, including 1) processing incomplete building models into well-formed and complete models, 2) integrating and matching data sets of material properties and emission factors, 3) automatic EnergyPlus simulation, and 4) analysis & visualization (post-processing).