Digital project development for laboratory buildings
Digital project development for laboratory buildings
In the initiation phase of laboratory and office projects, a reliable database is required at an early stage. Only on this basis can the client make a decision in favour of a positive implementation of the building project. Problem: In conventional planning processes, the required data only comes together in the course of the subsequent service phases.
Modularisation as a supplementary planning approach
This method, known as "digital project development", offers many advantages. For example, it fully utilises the strengths of digital planning logic. For example, geometries are no longer drawn, but programmed using variable parameters. In contrast to conventional planning, this means that a large number of different basic structures can be analysed and compared very efficiently in terms of their geometric and planning constraints. This enables a high degree of flexibility in the event of changes as well as a sound basis for decision-making for alternative plans - for example, if a laboratory is to become an office building.
We use the parametric analysis and evaluation of limiting design factors as the basis for our supplementary planning approach of modularisation. Essentially, this means that we combine two methods (digitalisation and modularisation) in order to exploit their full potential. The value chain encompasses all areas of planning. And it extends from the decision on the building cubature to efficient floor planning and the evaluation of areas, costs and times.
Step-by-step approach of our experts
How do our experts go about this? The first step is to analyse the limiting factors of a potential building plot:
- These include the surroundings, the orientation and geometry of the property or the requirements of the development plan.
- In addition, there are the regulations of building planning law, including the possible number of storeys, floor area ratio (GRZ) and floor area ratio (GFZ) as well as building lines and boundaries.
- Modular planning also deals with the grid and zoning of the building structure.
In the next step, our tool uses this initial data to develop different variants in terms of building type, size, shape, etc. And it makes suggestions as to what the building could actually look like. Based on the smallest possible grid, our modularisation specialists calculate floor plan layouts, façades, surfaces and interior walls. We also take into account the fit-out and the TGA modules as well as building regulations and calculate the optimum solution. Entire room groups or office or room units, including costs and areas, can be precisely planned in this way.
The advantages for our customers are:
- Greater speed (a few weeks instead of months) and better planning capability
- Clarity about possible planning variants at a very early stage
- Innovative combination of digitalisation and modularisation approaches
- Consistent mapping of the project from start to finish
- Early integration into a BIM-capable grid
- Parametric building analysis to quickly determine the most efficient cubature for the specific property
- Development and building parameters can be varied as required as part of the analysis
- Dependencies of the various parameters can be quickly visualised in a scenario analysis
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