PANDA is a software platform that generates thousands of structural design options from a brief, allowing building designers to compare cost and embodied carbon on an interactive graph. By automating early‑stage scheme exploration, it helps users reduce structural frame emissions by up to 40% and cut design time by about two weeks, delivering low‑carbon, cost‑effective solutions.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Building designers often lack rapid access to a wide range of structural design alternatives during the early scheme phase, making it difficult to identify options that minimize embodied carbon and construction costs.
Solution
PANDA is a software platform that automatically generates thousands of structural design concepts from high‑level project inputs such as layout geometry, soil conditions, and loading. Each concept is evaluated for material cost and embodied carbon, and the results are visualized on an interactive cost‑versus‑carbon graph. Designers can filter, compare, and download detailed reports for the most promising options, enabling quick selection of low‑impact solutions without extensive manual modeling. By delivering this breadth of data early in the design process, PANDA helps teams lock in carbon reductions, lower construction expenses, and accelerate scheme exploration.
Target Audience
Primary users are architects, structural engineers, and sustainability consultants who need early‑stage design options to meet carbon reduction targets and budget constraints.
Features
- Automated generation of 1,000+ viable structural configurations from minimal project data
- Real‑time cost and embodied carbon calculations for every design option
- Interactive graph that plots cost against carbon, supporting rapid visual comparison
- Exportable detailed design reports for selected concepts
- Filter and collaborative review tools for live team evaluation sessions
- Compatibility with standard structural analysis inputs, requiring no detailed models