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3 Conclusion
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We gave a brief overview of how costs are influenced by the design and have presented a cost
estimation assistant that targets designers of form-active structures. It can be used either as a pure
calculation tool for first estimations or if desired expose educational facets to submit better
understanding of the involved cost factors and dependencies to the designer. Even while kept simple,
we believe the estimation mechanism to be powerful enough to present estimations within a range of
accuracy of 20-30 %. Due to its ability to extract knowledge from existing/finished projects and to
feed this knowledge back to the project database we further believe estimations to become gradually
more accurate, when more projects are calculated and so more data of cost estimations and their
corresponding real project costs is available.
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