Abstract
The construction process plays a key role in sustainable development of the environment. With the concept of sustainable construction being put forward in the world, some countries released green construction standards to strengthen the requirements in the construction phase. Green construction code checking needs to integrate semantic information embedded in green construction standards and model information involved in Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and/or Model View Definition (MVD), which are generated separately and lead to difficulty in information integration for green construction code checking. At present, the existing code-checking methods cannot be directly used for green construction. Related practitioners need an efficient and convenient method for green construction code checking urgently. To ameliorate this situation, this research proposes an innovative approach to organize, store, and re-use green construction knowledge by combining mvdXML and semantic technologies. The code checking of green construction is classified into four types based on the difficulty level to meet the requirements of the clauses in green construction standard. Depending on the characteristics of each inspection type, mvdXML or semantic technology is adopted for the appropriate inspection type. This paper demonstrates the deployment and validation of such automated checking procedures in a case study. Based on these experiences, a detailed discussion about the identified issues is provided as the starting point for future research.
Highlights
As people pay more and more attention to the living environment, the concept of green construction is becoming widespread [1]
XML and mvdXML data can be transformed into OWL/Resource Description Framework (RDF) description language as the rule base of ontology, which allows mvdXML and semantic technologies to be integrated for code checking
Model information in Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and/or Model View Definition (MVD) is selected as another data source, which can be expressed in Excel and transformed to mvdXML form using the mvdXML rule transformer by data preprocessing [44]
Summary
As people pay more and more attention to the living environment, the concept of green construction is becoming widespread [1]. A great level of pollution and waste occur in the different phases of a building’s life cycle [2] Most of these activities take place in the construction phase; green construction is a very important strategy of sustainable development [3]. Many cases show that the code checking based on building information modeling (BIM) is an effective means to reduce the amount of construction waste, since it is mainly generated due to improper design and unexpected changes in the design and construction phases. In response to this reality, some countries such as America and China released green construction-related standards and codes.
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