[samstave]

totally naive and off the top of my head...

Can your process be applied as a plugin/core function of cad programs for designing buildings/other systems...

Such that I can relatively roughly draft a layout of a floor-plan, and then have your ideas "think" out a layer for piping, electrical, lighting etc...

the idea would be to avoid physical interferences, and then take your logic to say "oh this is a floor plan and the lighting layer-elements should be within the boundary of the walls, and I am to lay them out on an NxN grid, so ill propse this layout and the designer can just adjust as needed - but I am aware of the walls so I know I can only place this many WRT the layout" and "ah, this is a wall, and a ceiling, my electrical conduit must run up/in the wall and along the ceiling, and no conduit can intersect - but I need a junction box every N feet/[condition] and my radius for each turn must be within [spec]"

Basically ML/AI assisted CAD... I think you should explore that - electrical/plumbing conduit designs effectively adhere/require your design logic....

Just a thought.

[samstave]

To reply to my own comment, I know that this already can be ~accomplished with, say, revit, I think there are efficiencies to be gained by what they are dount (autodesk should aquire these MOFOs...)

Basically define an elements requirements;

BusStop; Range = X Schedule = Y Frequency = Z FuelReq = AA

etc..

Then you do something like a fixture:

2X4 Fixture; Power = X T24 = Y

Then you setup a standard and a repo for people to post objects to a lib and let them select those things and just plop them on a drawing and the reqs will get calculated.

Although, I was not able to know how they calculated the cost per year for any of their examples... where does that data come from???