The practical utilisation of theoretical knowledge and the development of the associated competencies is one of the indispensable tasks of practice-oriented universities in Switzerland. In a world of “data overload”, it is even more important to implement the basics of information materialisation. In this context, the competence of information materialisation is the ability to research in a...
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is a critical factor that is being pushed by supranational organisations, like the United Nations (UN). These 17 UN goals specify how the climate targets can be achieved with targeted, interlinked measures. The construction and property industry plays a key role in this. Novel approaches will be needed to fulfil these global goals and make the...
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The approval process is crucial for construction projects in Europe, with varying regulations across member states. Efficient navigation through this complexity significantly influences project success. In Germany, the average building permit procedure takes 96 days, due to the limited digitalization in permit authorities, causing delays and inquiries [1]. Our AI-supported...
The construction industry is playing a substantial role in depleting resources, generating waste, and consuming energy. According to Zhang et al. (2017), buildings are projected to emit around 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and are anticipated to contribute to approximately about one-third of the annual global energy and water consumption by 2030. Following the fact that the current...
Regulatory compliance is an essential driver in the design of building projects, spanning across different development stages and relating to the fulfilment of constraints, rules and recommendations expressed in regulatory documents. In this process, designers generally abide by the rules and constraints described in the requirements (i.e., adopting a prescriptive approach to design); or use...
-Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
-Web Ontology Language (OWL)
-Multi-requirement ontology engineering
-Natural Language Processing (NLP)
-RDF/SPARQL
The construction industry relies heavily on building codes and regulations to uphold safety, structural integrity, and environmental sustainability. Yet, the intricate nature of these codes poses significant challenges, demanding specialized knowledge for accurate interpretation and assessment.
The complexities associated with building codes manifest in various ways. Specialized expertise...
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Many countries are interested in applying Building Information Modelling (BIM) to streamline building permit application, review, and approval because the current permit practices are considered time consuming and sometimes cause delays in construction projects (Ullah et al., 2020; Fauth and Soibelman, 2022). However, developing a BIM-based building permit...
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Development of Building Information Modeling (BIM) has introduced an opportunity to automat various processes in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) domain, including design review. Yet, in practice, despite the presented opportunities, design review processes continue to involve cumbersome paper trails and time-consuming manual work. The concept of Automated...
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Digital building permission is a rising use case of BIM in recent years. As reported by Noardo et al. [1] research in this field has focused most on the development of code compliance checking systems. The objective of a code compliance checking system is the automation of code checking with a high degree of automation. However, fully automated checking is not feasible for all requirements....
To start the construction phase of a building, it is necessary to have a Building Permit (BP). This is a permit issued by the public authorities after careful verification that the project complies with the building regulations valid at both building and city level (Noardo et al., 2022). The development and linking of methods for issuing building permits, supported by digital tools, could...
The current paper aims to the reconstruction of Salzburg Castle in Austria. The historical context plays a significant for the whole of European history. The objective is to design the 3D digital product of the castle. New technologies improve business life. The characteristics of the projects are summarized in measurements, spatial analysis, virtual presentation of the digital castle, digital...
In the construction industry, obtaining permits ensures the safe, legal, and efficient use of land and resources. Building permits serve as a crucial checkpoint, aligning architectural designs with established building codes and urban planning principles. However, securing a building permit is often fraught with complexities and delays, posing significant challenges for designers and...
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The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry is subject to many building codes and regulations that apply to the design and construction of buildings. These regulations often involve complex language and technical vocabulary that can give rise to different interpretations, depending on their context and purpose, and therefore a difficulty in their...
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In the evolving landscape of digitalization, automating building permit processes are crucial for municipalities and other governmental bodies. Our research addresses the complexities of modeling digital building permit regulations, considering the level of the information needs (LoIN) for geometry-based regulations in four municipalities (Prague, Lisbon, Vila Nova de Gaia and...
ILS Space: applying and extracting a higher order spatial taxonomy from IFC building models
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The evolution of Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers unprecedented capabilities for collaboration and data management in the construction sector. However, limitations remain in terms of capturing, representing and extracting the more implicit, higher order functional...
The importance of digitalizing building permits internationally plays a key role in breaking down the barriers that characterize the time-consuming and human error-prone process as being based on manual controls. The standardization and digitalization of building permit procedures brings several benefits that can positively impact both the competent authorities and applicants. Benefits include...
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The construction industry faces adverse health and safety (H&S) performance challenges. It is well-known that construction fatalities are three times higher than the all-industry rate in the UK. These H&S performance issues are further manifested in infrastructure projects that are typically large and complex, and involve many workers and machinery...
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The Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry is undergoing transformative changes driven by technological advancements, with a particular focus on digitalization and automation opportunities. One key area of interest is the building permit process. Building permit processes are complex and multidisciplinary (Noardo et al., 2022). While the core activities...
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The digitalisation of building permit processes refers to using digital technologies to streamline building permit application, review and approval. For example, the permit applicant can use an online service to submit digital designs and other required information, and the authorities may use software to conduct automatic code compliance checks. A digital...
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Building information modelling (BIM) is being increasingly adopted in building permit processes (Ullah et al., 2020, 2022). At the same time, countries are announcing compulsory climate declarations, mostly based on the building lifecycle assessment (LCA) (Malabi Eberhardt et al., 2023; von Malmborg et al., 2023). For example, Finland will require such climate declaration and...
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Eastman et al. (2009) conceptualized automated compliance checking of building design as a four-step process:
- Building regulations must be converted into a formal, machine-readable representation.
- The building design information needs to be retrieved and prepared for compliance checking. This includes the derivation of new concepts.
- In the...
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The digitalisation of the building permitting (DBP) process is suffering a significant push, with several researchers actively working and supported by the European Commission's (EC) ambition of setting a common framework for it.
Similarly, following several European Union (EU) studies, a common framework of requirements to ensure data traceability at the building level and...
