Façade Engineering AI

Facadty — AI for Façade Engineering

A specialised AI engineering assistant for façade engineers, façade designers and technical teams. Facadty reads façade details, identifies components and systems, answers technical questions and drafts engineering descriptions — inside a controlled professional workspace.

Evidence-based: Confirmed / visible / inferred / unknown
Project context: Details, documents, previous cases
Human-in-the-loop: Engineer reviews every output
Restricted: Authorized accounts only

Agent session — Detail Analysis

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Project context

Kai Tower — Unitised curtain wall, D-204

Reading evidence…

Simulated session. Every Facadty output is a draft for engineer review.

The problem

Façade knowledge is scattered across drawings, documents and people.

Façade engineering runs on details. The information needed to understand one junction is spread over section drawings, supplier data, specifications, calculations and the memory of the engineers who worked on the last comparable project.

Generic AI tools do not understand this context. They answer confidently without knowing what a stack joint, a serrated bracket or a drained and back-ventilated cavity actually implies, and they cannot tell what is drawn from what is assumed.

Facadty is built for this domain: it works from the evidence in the project, states what it cannot determine, and keeps every output traceable back to a detail, a document or a previous project case.

What the AI Agent can do

Five engineering tasks, one façade-aware agent.

Detail Analysis

Read a façade detail and explain the construction logic: layer sequence, load path, sealing line, thermal separation and interfaces.

Output

Structured breakdown of the detail with evidence classification and open points

Component Identification

Identify mullions, transoms, brackets, fixings, profiles, panels, glass, insulation, anchors, gaskets, flashings and substructures.

Output

Component list with function, position and confidence level per item

Technical Description

Generate a professional engineering description of a façade system or detail, written for specifications and technical reports.

Output

Draft description text in engineering language, ready for engineer review

Engineering Question

Ask a targeted façade engineering question in the context of a project, its documents and previous analyses.

Output

Reasoned answer with cited evidence and explicit statement of what is unknown

Documentation Support

Assemble analyses, descriptions and component data into consistent documentation for a project package.

Output

Structured documentation draft with traceability back to evidence

Example façade engineering tasks

Systems and components Facadty reasons about.

Primary structure

Mullion
Vertical primary member transferring wind load to slab brackets
Transom
Horizontal member spanning between mullions, supporting infill
Substructure
Secondary framing carrying cladding back to the primary structure

Fixing and support

Bracket
Connects façade framing to slab edge; carries dead and wind load
Anchor
Transfers bracket load into concrete or steel substrate
Fixing
Bolts, screws and pins securing components within the assembly

Infill and envelope

Glass unit
Insulating glazing providing transparency, thermal and acoustic performance
Panel
Opaque infill: metal, stone, terracotta or composite cladding
Insulation
Thermal layer within spandrel, cavity or back pan

Sealing and weathering

Gasket
Compression seal at glazing rebate and stack joints
Flashing
Sheet metal directing water out of the assembly
Profile
Pressure plates, caps and adaptors completing the section

Evidence-based approach

Every statement carries its level of certainty.

Confirmed

Stated in an uploaded drawing, specification or project document.

Visible

Directly readable from the supplied detail or image.

Inferred

Engineering interpretation — must be verified by the engineer.

Unknown

Not determinable from the available evidence.

Facadty avoids unsupported assumptions and explicitly communicates uncertainty when information is missing, so the engineer always knows which parts of an answer still need verification.

The long-term vision

A reusable façade engineering knowledge base — not isolated chats.

Facadty connects visual understanding, façade engineering knowledge, project context, AI reasoning and technical documentation into one controlled professional workspace.

Project→Façade System→Component→Detail→Engineering Topic→Evidence

Restricted platform

Access to the Engineering Workspace is by invitation only.

Only predefined and authorized users can reach the AI Agent. If your account has been provisioned, log in.