The quest to automate compliance checking processes needed for planning, design,
construction and operations has been an active research topic for half a century. Literature …

Abstract Virtual Geographic Environments (VGEs) are proposed as a new generation of
geographic analysis tool to contribute to human understanding of the geographic world and …

Automated rule checking has been identified as potentially providing significant value to the
AEC industry from both regulatory and industry perspectives. Key challenges to a successful …

Significant difficulties remain in exchanging information between building information
modeling (BIM) tools. The industry foundation classes (IFC) exchange schema is too generic …

Infrastructure systems are encountering unprecedented challenges as a result of climate
change. Identifying infrastructure vulnerabilities before hazards strike is of paramount …

Considering their significant impact on construction projects, scaffolding as part of the
temporary facilities category in construction must be thoroughly designed, planned …

In building information modeling (BIM), the model is a digital representation of physical and
functional characteristics of a facility and contains enriched product information pertaining to …

Only very few constructed facilities today have a complete record of as-built information.
Despite the growing use of Building Information Modelling and the improvement in as-built …

Over the last two decades, numerous approaches have been developed for automating
construction safety assessment, that is, prevention through design and planning (PtD/P), that …

Abstract The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), an open and neutral ISO standard, plays a
key role in enabling interoperability, allowing entity and relationship data to be exchanged …