DL E&C, AI-Powered Parking Lot Design... "Maximizing Spaces in Limited Areas"

[Asia Economy Reporter Onyu Lim] DL E&C (formerly Daelim Industrial) announced on the 13th that it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) design technology and completed a patent application. This technology enables AI to analyze apartment environments and automatically generate about 1,000 underground parking lot design plans within 30 minutes.

Since AI is responsible for the design instead of humans, it can produce design plans optimized for the complex environment with uniform quality levels across all sites. Additionally, the design plans reflect a high usage ratio of precast concrete in the parking structure construction, enabling superior quality implementation. DL E&C plans to actively pursue AI technology development through collaborations with Carnegie Mellon University, the world’s leading AI research institution, to provide optimized residential products to customers.

The technology developed by DL E&C allows AI to design underground parking lots that secure the maximum number of parking spaces within limited areas by considering vehicle movement paths. It applies the concept of ‘generative design,’ where AI compares numerous alternatives to derive the optimal design. When conditions such as the shape of the parking zone, the orientation, and layout of apartment buildings are input, thousands of design plans are automatically generated. Using the trained algorithm, DL E&C can produce 1,000 alternative designs in just 30 minutes.

DL E&C has applied this technology to actual sites and completed performance verification. The AI-designed parking lots increased the average number of parking spaces by more than 5% compared to conventional methods. In particular, the usage ratio of precast concrete structures was increased by over 17%. Precast concrete is produced in factories, ensuring uniform quality and easy on-site installation. Compared to traditional cast-in-place methods, it maintains consistent construction quality while reducing costs, construction time, and defects.

Based on its accumulated AI technology capabilities, DL E&C is promoting open innovation by collaborating externally to develop higher-level technologies. Together with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, a leading institution in AI research related to architecture (Research Lead Jinmo Lee), DL E&C has also developed AI technology that designs the main building layout of apartment complexes. Using this technology, AI independently creates and evaluates various alternatives considering floor area ratio, number of units, sunlight exposure, and more. After reviewing applicability this year, the technology is planned to be applied to actual designs in the first half of next year.

Jungheon Kim, Executive Director at DL E&C, stated, “Through technology utilizing AI, we have improved work efficiency and can provide more differentiated and optimized products to many customers,” adding, “We will continue research to offer even more perfect multi-family housing products to our customers.”

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