Automated MEPI Design for Hollow Wall Construction
AssigneeGlobal Bamboo Technologies Inc.
InventorsWilliam Hinkle, Zack Zimmerman
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Abstract
Disclosed embodiments include the production of construction plans upon planar surfaces such as studless walls near studless walls or traditional framing. Disclosed embodiments include specialized databases, cutting systems and printing systems useful for implementation of various plans upon planar surfaces sometimes used with hollow wall systems, sometimes constructed with bamboo or other fast growing sources of structural fiber, with the types of subject printing and cutting sometimes including architectural plans, structural plans, electrical plans, plumbing plans, mechanical plans, insulation plans, media plans, security plans and construction plans and details including those derived directly from various plans
Claims9
A system (100) of configuring and printing construction indicia upon planar surfaces, the system comprising:
- a) construction plans (200) in communication with a computer system, the construction plans comprising plans for building component plans, the building component plans comprising plans for architecture, structural, plumbing, electrical and mechanical;
- b) the architectural and structural plans processed through a framing rules module (220) the output from the framing rules module further processed through a framing design and plan module (240) to produce a preliminary framing map module (410);
- c) the plans for plumbing, electrical and mechanical processed through a subset construction data module (300) to produce a preliminary Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing, (MEPI) map module (430);
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- d) the preliminary MEPI map module and the preliminary framing map module processed through a conflict and clash resolution module to produce outputs of floor plans, wall sections, panel cut sections and plans with the produced outputs used as inputs to a CNC cutter/printer (600) to cut and print upon panels.
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