Please enter the following info in the fields above:
- Your Name as the Card title
- The link to your Module 6 folder in our Autodesk Construction Cloud project
Please also type the first few letters of your first name into the Link to Student field, then hover over your name from the list of matching records and click the blue plus sign to link this entry to your Design Journal.
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- For 3 or More Units: Develop a Single-Objective Optimization Scheme
- Brief descriptions outlining:
- Your Single-Objective Optimization scheme (combination/comparison/ranking approach)
- An Image/screenshot of your summary table (created in Word, Excel, Google Sheets, or any data table tool) showing the input values tested and the values computed for each of the reported parameters.
- Be sure to highlight your top 3 recommended design alternatives (for either one the example building forms or the new building form that you designed) and recommend the one design that you consider to be the “best”.
- An explanation of why you consider the recommended building form to be the “best” choice
Create Two New Evaluator Nodes
- Images showing the node logic in your new evaluator nodes
- An Image/screenshot of your summary table (created in Word, Excel, Google Sheets, or any data table tool) showing the input values tested and the values computed for each of the reported parameters
For the first evaluator node, I decided to do an energy comparison from the solar insolation of the building against average energy consumption usages, with options to flex the model for different seasons and operating cases. Basically, the node takes in a season and a use case and then determines an estimate of the additional energy requirement. This means that a negative value outputted would indicate the building is producing more energy than it is consuming. The average energy usage is based on data provided by Energy STAR for the median usage of US buildings as I could not find reliable data for Dubai.