Software calculates financial and environmental cost of architectural design
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Establishing the financial cost and environmental impact of work in advance is not a simple task for builders, engineers, and architects. Doing these calculations in real time, at the same time as developing the architectural project, and also recalculating the costs in accordance with changes to the design or material used, whether it is steel, wood, or concrete, is the proposal of the software being developed by São Paulo–based startup Archflex, founded by architects Taís de Moraes Alves and Fulvio Ramos Roxo.
The software, unprecedented in the world, is aimed at modular construction, a construction method in which the parts of the building (or modules) are standardized and produced in factories, and then simply assembled on site, providing greater agility to the process and reducing waste. The development of the program, still in prototype phase, has received support from FAPESP’s Innovative Research in Small Businesses (PIPE) program.
Using the tool, architects and engineers can create the architectural project accessing a library of parts available in the cloud and updated in real time by the suppliers. The platform also allows remote access by the end client, who can approve, reject, or suggest changes at each stage of the project and know the cost and carbon footprint of each suggested change immediately.
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Source: Pesquisa FAPESP