Automated compliance audit of fire engineering design

Abstract

Automating regulatory compliance audit in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction domain has been subject of considerable research, but has no viable solution. The main challenge is the continued practice of paper-based information exchange in the industry. The emergence of an ISO standard Building Information Model (BIM) to represent buildings as semantically rich objects has the potential to address part of the problem. However, it must be coupled with an efficient and practical computable representation of the regulatory knowledge, and an automated system to process them for compliance audit. Objectives 1. To develop a practical computerised representation of performance-based codes with an application to the fire safety design of buildings in New Zealand. 2. To implement an effective method of extracting information from ISO standard BIM-based models. 3. To develop a framework that could process the building model and the regulatory knowledge base to support automated performance-based audit of fire safety design.