System and a Method for Managing Building Projects

• US 20080255914A1
• Filed: 08/10/2006
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shlumi Oren
• Original Assignee: Shlumi Oren
• Inventors: Oren, Shlumi (Shlomo)
• Application Number:
  US12/064,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20080255914A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

A system and method for comprehensive data integration and management of large-scale building projects. The building projects comprised of a planning module (100) which supports entrepreneurs'"'"'s decision making processes by enabling them to compare the costs and resources needed for the planned project according to different scenario plans (105). The second enables a semi-automatic translation of design plans drawings into inventory lists and building tasks (110). The third is a real-time project management module (120) which offers extensive tools for keeping track of projects'"'"' progress.

Claims

1. A system for managing building project enabling to translate building plans and design into operative resources lists including a list of required materials and required work hours, said system is comprised of:

design converter module wherein the design converter module enable to extract from the building plans and design required relevant raw data for calculating operative resources lists;

a planning module and real time project tracking module, wherein these modules calculation outputs are based on said extracted data.

2. The system of claim 1 further providing budget planning and scheduling basing its calculations on

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the real time project tracking module enable to keep track of the project'"'"'s progress and dynamically update cost and schedule calculation.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the drawings are extracted from computer aided designs.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the drawings are extracted from scanned designs.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the planning module provides decision making by enabling to compare the costs and resources needed for the planned project according to different scenario plans.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the different scenario are derived from estimations of the different types of materials, human resources and the duration of the specific plan.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein converter module is operated in accordance with following steps:

identifying and marking the significant elements of the plan, defining the boundaries of the elements, performing initial calculations regarding the area of the elements, extracting row data from the marked elements, said raw data including detailed specifications, quantities and components types.

9. The system according to claim 1 wherein the link between the specification drawings objects and the row data is a bidirectional link enabling continuous update of the drawings.

11. The system of claim 1 further comprising an accounting module, a task manager module, a materials module, a resource manager module and a maintenance module.

12. The system of claim 1 further comprising an asset registration module and an asset management module wherein the costs for these module are calculated on the basis of the raw data.

10. The system of claim 10 wherein the bidirectional link maintain both the graphic representation of the project and the raw data constantly up to date at all stages of the project as changes are made.