End-to-end interoperability and workflows from building architecture design to one or more simulations

A method for end-to-end interoperability and workflows from building architecture design to one or more simulations, comprising:

• interacting with a data model via a user interface or an application programming interface or combinations of both integrated on a building information management enablement platform, wherein the data model comprises at least a user data entity, a user role data entity, a project data entity, an external information data entity, a format mapping data entity, an XML schema data entity, a none XML schema data entity, a model view definition template data entity and a repository data entity, the interacting comprising at least:
• creating a user data entity instance and populating one or more fields associated with the user data entity in the user data entity instance;
• creating a project data entity instance of the defined data model and populating one or more fields associated with the project data entity instance;
• adding external information data for simulation runs into an external information data entity instance;
• adding user role information to a user role data entity instance;
• creating one or more links to a file format and schema by populating a format mapping data entity instance and a schema data entity instance;
• creating a model view definition template data entity instance for translation of a building architecture design output format to a simulation input format, and populating the model view definition template data entity instance;
• creating an input file by populating a repository data entity instance to identify the input file and the model view definition template data entity instance;
• and
• running a simulation code associated with said one or more simulations with the data of the external information data entity instance and a transformed input file that is transformed using the populated model view definition template data entity instance,
• wherein the model view definition template data entity instance stores at least data associated with performing a format translation function comprising at least how data is to be extracted from one or more source files and mapped, wherein a user is allowed to populate the model view definition template data entity instance and the format mapping data entity instance,
• wherein responsive to the user invoking a code specified in the external information data entity instance, the method further comprises automatically transforming, via at least the model view definition template data entity instance and the format mapping data entity instance, an output of the building design to one or more formats of one or more of the plurality of simulations based on the data populated in the model view definition template data entity instance and the format mapping data entity instance,
• wherein responsive to a user command, the method further comprises automatically performing said running a simulation code.