Formalization of building codes and regulations in knowledge graphs
Résumé
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 application. The introduction of Building Information Modelling (BIM), as well as authoring tools capable of creating and exporting 3D representations of buildings, is paving the way for compliance checking to become more automated and less dependent on interpretation. This should allow for better quality by reducing the time needed for checking and avoiding human errors. However, despite attempts to provide new BIM-based methods and approaches to achieve this goal in the past two decades, none of these methods have proven to be close to being a definitive solution.