Delve’s ability to generate and analyze massing options for complex programs and multiple metrics make it a great tool for large-scale masterplans. Delve currently supports sites up to 250 acres (100 hectares) in land area.

For the large-scale sites, Delve solves for your project requirements — use types and density — and runs key performance analysis for financial models, sun hours, solar potential, views and walkability. Normally this may take weeks or months to run. In Delve this can take just a few hours.

To run large-scale site studies as quickly as possible, here are a few tips and tricks!

Yield studies generate design options without evaluating key metrics and financials. They are both simpler to configure and faster to run! You can use yield studies to test your inputs and get results faster.

Delve will preserve your inputs from a Yield Study when you run a Highest and Best Use Study. So you can use Yield Studies to fine-tune your inputs before running more detailed analysis.
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Delve generates design options that explore the full possibility space to solve for your inputs in each study. For large-scale sites, having a wider possibility space will increase the time it takes for Delve to generate results. One way to reduce this space is to better define the number of floors you want in each building type.

A wider range of floors will mean that Delve spends more time searching! In most cases, you can set your floor ranges to a smaller range or even a single value. You can add high-, mid-, and low-rise buildings to get more height variety.

For studies that have multiple use types of the same kind (e.g. having both an affordable and market-rate residential use type), Delve will try to place any of those use types on a matching floor. This expands the possibility space! You can simplify this and speed up Delve by making floors single-use within a building type.