Don’t shoehorn, but link compliance checking data

Ruben Kruiper; Ioannis  Konstas; Alasdair J.G. Gray; Farhad Sadeghineko; Richard Watson; Bimal  Kumar

Don’t shoehorn, but link compliance checking data

Ruben Kruiper^*, Ioannis Konstas, Alasdair J.G. Gray, Farhad Sadeghineko, Richard Watson, Bimal Kumar

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Abstract

Wouldn’t it be great if we could automatically check whether a Building Information Model (BIM) complies with all the relevant building regulations? Despite a plethora of motivations and a long history of research, the Automated Compliance Checking (ACC) problem is far from solved. We argue that a general solution to ACC may not be feasible based on three fundamental difficulties: (1) semantic parsing of regulatory texts, (2) a mismatch in requirements for representing a building project and representing the building elements that ACC rules refer to, and (3) the lack of a strategy to align ACC rules to each other and to building representations. We identify the need for tools that support the use building regulations for their diverse group of users, e.g., not only during Compliance Checking. Our conclusion is that a Linked Data approach is particularly suited to the development of such support tools.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop
Editors	Walter Terkaj, María Poveda-Villalón, Pieter Pauwels
Pages	151-163
Number of pages	13
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2024
Externally published	Yes
Event	11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop - Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti (CTE), Matera, Italy Duration: 15 Jun 2023 → 16 Jun 2023 https://linkedbuildingdata.net/ldac2023/ (Link to event website)

Publication series

Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	RWTH Aachen University
Volume	3633
ISSN (Electronic)	1613-0073

Workshop

Workshop	11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop
Abbreviated title	LDAC 2023
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Matera
Period	15/06/23 → 16/06/23
Internet address	https://linkedbuildingdata.net/ldac2023/ (Link to event website)

Keywords

Automated Compliance Checking
Linked Data
Building Regulations

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Kruiper, R, Konstas, I, Gray, AJG, Sadeghineko, F, Watson, R & Kumar, B 2024, Don’t shoehorn, but link compliance checking data. in W Terkaj, M Poveda-Villalón & P Pauwels (eds), Proceedings of the 11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3633, pp. 151-163, 11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop, Matera, Italy, 15/06/23.

Don’t shoehorn, but link compliance checking data. / Kruiper, Ruben; Konstas, Ioannis ; Gray, Alasdair J.G. et al.
Proceedings of the 11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop. ed. / Walter Terkaj; María Poveda-Villalón; Pieter Pauwels. 2024. p. 151-163 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3633).

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