Systems and methods for sustainability and social interaction analysis in building information modeling

A system for transforming a BIM (building information model) from a decomposition of individual components with solid-volume geometrical representations to thermal zones for use in energy analysis, the system comprising a processing unit and storage unit, the processing unit being configured to:

• receive a BIM from the storage unit;
• transform the BIM to flatten solid-volume geometry for space bounding elements into thin-walled boundaries of the thermal zones by:
• determining wall volumes from the BIM;
• collapsing the wall volumes to provide single surface walls;
• determining wall center surfaces and end points from the single surface walls;
• aligning and trimming the single surface walls using the wall end points to create closed spaces;
• connecting the closed spaces vertically to generate a single water tight volume for the closed spaces;
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• creating interfaces between the single water tight volume for the closed spaces to generate thermal zones;
• and
• output the thermal zones.