System and method for realizing a building system

A computer based method for realizing a building system within which healthcare services will be provided to patients, the method comprising:

• receiving input related to customer needs for a building system, the input being received through a user interface at a remote client device and being expressed in a formal description language, the input including an indication of a location at which the building system is to be built;
• generating at least one business model from the customer needs input, wherein the business model defines, in a functional language, types and volumes of healthcare services that will be provided via the building system;
• simulating an aspect of the business model;
• optimizing an aspect of the business model;
• generating at least one spatial arrangement of the building system from the at least one business model, wherein the spatial arrangement of the building system defines a form and shell of the building system, a block and stack of the building system, and a placement of rooms of the building system;
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• simulating an aspect of the spatial arrangement of the building system;
• wherein the computational tasks of the simulation and optimization operations are distributed over multiple different processors of a large scale processing system.

A system comprising:

• a large scale processing system having multiple different instruction processors;
• a storage network, in communication with the large scale processing system, which stores computer readable instructions and data, which when processed by the large scale processing system implement a building realization platform;
• the building realization platform being configured to:
• receive input related to customer needs for a building system, the input being received through a user interface at a remote client device and being expressed in a formal description language, the input including an indication of a location at which the building system is to be built;
• generate at least one business model from the customer needs input, wherein the business model defines, in a functional language, types and volumes of services that will be provided within the building system;
• simulate an aspect of the business model;
• optimize an aspect of the business model;
• generate at least one spatial arrangement of the building system from the at least one business model, wherein the spatial arrangement of the building system defines a form and shell of the building system, a block and stack of the building system, and a placement of rooms of the building system;
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• simulate an aspect of the spatial arrangement of the building system;
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• track dependencies between the customer needs, the business model, and the spatial arrangement;
• wherein the computational tasks of the simulation and optimization operations are distributed over multiple different processors of the large scale processing system.

A system comprising:

• a large scale processing system having multiple different instruction processors;
• a storage network, in communication with the large scale processing system, which stores computer readable instructions and data, which when executed by the large scale processing system implement a building realization platform;
• the building realization platform comprising:
• a customer needs domain configured to store, in a formal description language, an indication of a location at which a building system is to be built;
• a business model domain configured to store information that specifies types and volumes of services to be provided within the building system in response to criteria from the customer needs domain;
• a spatial arrangement domain configured to generate and store at least one spatial arrangement of the building system in response to criteria from the business model domain, wherein the spatial arrangement of the building system defines a form and shell of the building system, a block and stack of the building system, and a placement of rooms of the building system;
• a systems integration domain configured to generate and store at least one systems integration design in response to criteria from the spatial arrangement domain, wherein the systems integration design defines three dimensional spaces of infrastructure of the building;
• a fabrication domain that generates a list of building components that are required to build the building system as specified in the systems integration design;
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• an operation domain configured to generate and store a virtual model of the building system in response to information from the customer needs domain, the business model domain, the spatial arrangement domain, and the systems integration domain, and further configured to model, simulate, or optimize an operational parameter of a built version of the building system.