Understand how InferTrust™ AEC maintains cryptographic integrity across structural, MEP, fire protection, and civil discipline AI decisions.
Modern building design requires coordination across multiple engineering disciplines: structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and civil. When AI tools assist with design analysis in each discipline, decisions made in one discipline affect others. A structural beam depth change affects mechanical duct routing. An electrical panel relocation affects fire alarm circuiting. InferTrust™ (Patent Pending) AEC maintains cryptographic integrity across all discipline-specific AI decisions while preserving the referential links between them.
AI-assisted BIM coordination tools identify spatial conflicts (hard clashes), clearance violations (soft clashes), and workflow sequencing issues across discipline models. For each clash detection event, InferTrust™ AEC records the model versions from each discipline included in the coordination check, the clash detection engine and rule set applied, every clash identified with its location, severity classification, and the disciplines involved, and the resolution action (COORD_RESOLVE, COORD_DEFER, COORD_ESCALATE, or COORD_ACCEPT_RISK). The sealed records create a verifiable history of coordination decisions that supports both quality assurance and claims defense.
When an AI-assisted decision in one discipline depends on or affects a decision in another, InferTrust™ AEC creates explicit referential links between the sealed records. For example, if an AI structural analysis determines a beam depth that constrains MEP routing, the subsequent MEP routing decision record references the structural decision it depended on. This referential chain means that if the structural decision later changes (the beam is resized), the dependent MEP decisions are traceable and can be flagged for re-evaluation. This cross-discipline linking is critical for design change management and prevents the common problem of cascading changes that are not fully coordinated.
Trade coordination meetings resolve conflicts between subcontractor scopes. When AI tools assist in identifying or proposing resolutions to trade conflicts, InferTrust™ AEC captures the conflict, the proposed resolutions, and the accepted resolution as sealed decision records. Each record identifies the trades involved, the spatial or sequencing conflict, the resolution method (reroute, resize, relocate, sequence change), and the party that accepted the resolution. This creates a verifiable record of coordination decisions that is invaluable during claims proceedings when subcontractors dispute who agreed to what accommodation.
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) contracts share risk and reward across the project team. This contractual structure requires even more rigorous documentation of design coordination decisions because all parties have a financial interest in the design process. InferTrust™ AEC provides the neutral, cryptographically verifiable record of cross-discipline decisions that IPD teams need to manage shared accountability. No party can retroactively claim they were not informed of or did not participate in a coordination decision when the sealed record documents their involvement.