Planlabs

Planlabs

Planlabs is a B2B SaaS company, offering a generative AI solution to fully automate and radically enhance the planning of building technology systems. I.e. ventilation, plumbing, heating & cooling, fire protection and electro. The construction industry suffers from a lack of insight into the planning of these building technology systems. Resulting in uninformed decisions for crucial elements and limited understanding of its main drivers: material costs, operational costs and sustainability impact. On top of that, planning is extremely manual with limited collaboration between all parties involved. As a result, it’s error prone and time consuming.

Planlabs’ cloud-based platform offers full automation and optimization, at any stage of the design process. By doing so, it helps the construction industry to reach their efficiency and sustainability goals. Planlabs’ generative design engine uses heuristic and evolutionary algorithms, deep learning and reinforcement learning to simultaneously plan all trades with real manufacturers components. It takes an architectural model as input and decides the optimal layout of shafts and technical rooms. Next, it selects all necessary components and defines their most optimal location and dimension. To finish, it creates the piping systems. This complex task consists of creating the tracé, compatible with the architectural model, and to properly dimension it. During this entire process, the engine safeguards the functionality of the systems, whilst keeping the result intersection-free and optimized for the user specified metrics (embedded CO2, operational costs or material costs).

Planlabs incentives its users to study all necessary design variants to make informed decisions during the design process and facilitates collaboration between all stakeholders. It enables insights as never seen before, resulting in substantially better designed solutions as well as cost and time savings of more than 70%. For the first time in history, the planning of building technology systems becomes efficient, scalable and sustainable.

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  • Organization
    Planlabs
  • Profession
    AI driven B2B SaaS for building technology engineering tailored to engineers, contractors and architects