Event Description

As buildings account for a significant portion of global energy consumption and carbon emissions, emerging AI tools offer new methods to drive sustainability and efficiency. Experts from professional practice, software development, and academia will showcase cutting-edge approaches for optimizing spatial configurations, improving energy efficiency, and enhancing building performance. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how AI-driven design tools are reshaping the industry — transforming design processes, architectural geometries, and operational analytics.

The presentations will include a demonstration of “collaborative intelligence,” a strategy that combines AI and human insight to generate more effective recommendations for decarbonization plans. Presenters will also introduce a novel, building-specific data structure and generation method for creating floor plans. By leveraging advanced algorithms, an automated pipeline can seamlessly link architectural design with energy and daylight analysis, providing new insights into spatial configurations and enabling architects to better understand the impact of design choices on overall building performance. The presentation will also highlight the importance of optimizing architectural layouts to reduce environmental impact.

Learning Objectives - 

• Identify emerging AI tools and methods that can improve the design and/or operation of high-performance buildings
• Explain how AI-driven generative design can facilitate the design of floor plan configurations, daylighting, and energy efficiency
• Evaluate the concept of collaborative intelligence while bringing together human expertise and AI systems advancing decarbonization strategies
• Assess the potential impacts of AI-assisted workflows decision-making and impacts on building sustainability