BIM-based automatic compliance checking

LIN Jiarui; GUO Jianfeng

doi:10.16511/j.cnki.qhdxxb.2020.25.013

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Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology) ›› 2020, Vol. 60 ›› Issue (10) : 873-879. DOI: 10.16511/j.cnki.qhdxxb.2020.25.013

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BIM-based automatic compliance checking

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Compliance checking of building designs is essential for providing proper designs for green, safe, and comfortable buildings. However, traditional compliance checking approaches are highly dependent on experienced experts. The procedures are tedious and time-consuming with mistakes and inconsistencies often occurring during the checking process. This paper reviews recent research on automatic compliance checking to reflect the state-of-the-art in this area. A framework for automatic compliance checking was developed with the tasks divided into rule extraction and representation, information modeling and extension, rule reasoning and execution, and result reporting and visualization. These four aspects are used to classify the current status and limitations of the various current methods with the results showing that current information models have many differences with huge semantic gaps that require flexible, unified information models, also further investigations are needed of automatic rule extraction methods with an open environment for rule sharing and improved methods will involve complex spatial relationship and large reason capacities.

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building and construction / compliance checking / automatic code checking / rule reasoning / building information model (BIM)

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LIN Jiarui, GUO Jianfeng. BIM-based automatic compliance checking[J]. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology). 2020, 60(10): 873-879 https://doi.org/10.16511/j.cnki.qhdxxb.2020.25.013

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