Analysts from the ISSDP Laboratory visited customer’s construction sites
The meeting served to introduce the technical solutions that will be incorporated into design automation algorithms for the construction of apartment buildings.
On 16-17 May 2023, business meetings were held with representatives of Brusnika LLC at the company’s construction sites in Ekaterinburg.
In accordance with Brusnika’s directive, the Industrial Systems for Streaming Data Processing Laboratory of the Digital Engineering Advanced Engineering School of SPbPU has been engaged in the development of a methodology for the digital transformation of business processes and a software platform for the automation of design and preparation of working documentation in the construction of multi-apartment residential buildings since 2020.
This is a multipurpose project that is designed to assist the customer in the design of residential buildings with minimal involvement of the designer. This approach is intended to save time and budget and to facilitate the simulation of scenarios of changes in the management system, production, and technological processes. The results and impact of the changes made on the volumetric and qualitative performance indicators, including efficiency indicators, can then be analyzed.
The inspection of the Brusnika residential estate in the process of construction was conducted with the objective of familiarizing Polytechnic analysts with the intricacies of the implementation of technical solutions in the construction of real estate and to provide clarification on a range of operational matters pertaining to the design of engineering networks, structural and architectural solutions, and the adaptation of developed automation algorithms/mathematical apparatus within the automation system.
ISSDP Laboratory personnel conducted site visits to the customer company’s residential development projects at various stages of construction, including the Depot Quarter, Southern Quarters, and Shishimskaya Gorka neighborhood.
Eight analysts from the ISSDP Laboratory project team, under the supervision of Marina Bolsunovskaya, Head of the ISSDP Laboratory, participated in the meeting. The meeting was attended by Alexander Semenyuk, Head of the Design Automation Department; Anastasia Efimenkova, Product Manager; Vladislav Noskov, Head of the Analytics Department; Konstantin Bezgodov, Chief Programmer; and Vladimir Raschektayev, Chief Project Engineer, all of whom represent the customer company Brusnika LLC.
The guests were provided with comprehensive information regarding the intricacies of construction production and the organization of works on the site, and were particularly focused on the demonstration of technical solutions that should be integrated into the algorithms of design automation. This was done so that analysts could more accurately take into account a number of non-obvious limitations imposed by the peculiarities of construction processes at each specific site.
‘A comprehensive overview and demonstration of the organizational structure and installation and layout of engineering systems was provided. It was enlightening to observe the scale of production of structural elements, including monolithic and prefabricated designs, as well as the joints between these structures. One of the sites, the Depot Quarter, was particularly noteworthy for its implementation of standardized technical solutions, which were described and incorporated into automation algorithms,‘ said Ekaterina Tereshko, business analyst at the ISSDP Laboratory.
Elena Sidorina, Head of the Systems Analysis Group of the ISSDP Laboratory, stated: ‘During the site visits, we compared technical solutions ‘the right way’ and ‘as delivered’, both from a modeling and construction perspective. We observed the rapid and evolving nature of the construction industry with regard to changes in fundamental solutions and building standards. We examined the various stages of building construction and compared the sequence of processes in modeling and construction. Most importantly, we have identified a number of issues that require attention to ensure the developed automated modeling system makes more accurate decisions’.
The ISSDP Laboratory project team has successfully automated the majority of engineering systems and structural and architectural solutions. The system is being developed with the objective of automating the design of alternative technical solutions, expanding the system capabilities for visualization and dynamic changes in the design result, as well as automating the design and working documentation.
