ABSTRACT
SEED is a software environment to support the early phases in building design currently under development at CMU. The environment is intended to eventually support the early design of buildings in all aspects that may benefit from computer support. This includes the reuse of past solutions or cases that have been generated with the help of the environment. We give a brief overview of SEED, describe the requirements for case indexing, retrieval, and adaptation as they arise in SEED, and describe how the requirements are met by the approach toward CBD taken in SEED. We outline the current implementation and conclude with putting CBD into the larger context of information management in team-based design.
