DEVELOPMENT OF K-BIM E-SUBMISSION PROTOTYPICAL SYSTEM FOR THE OPENBIM-BASED BUILDING PERMIT FRAMEWORK

Inhan Kim,Evelyn Ai Lin Teo,Hongwei Sun,Jungsik Choi

doi:10.3846/jcem.2020.13756

Abstract

With the popularization of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology, increasing numbers of countries are attempting to introduce BIM into their national building permitting processes. There are also many BIM-related research initiatives worldwide. Likewise, the Korean government has joined this trend by improving its existing e-Submission system, SEUMTER, to provide for BIM-based e-submission and automated code compliance checking. Further, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport in Korea has funded the Korea BIM (KBIM) building e-Submission system project. The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data model is an openBIM approach that has been designated as an international standard through the International Organization for Standardization. It is not dependent on specific design tools and is suitable for public works applications. Hence, this study performed a comprehensive analysis of and developed a framework for a prototypical system for an e-Submission process based on the IFC data model. Four main modules were developed to perform code checking, submission, pre-checking, and automated rule-making. A real-world project was used to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed framework. This study could increase the adoption of BIMbased building e-Submission systems by sharing effective and successful processes.

Highlights

With the popularization of smart devices and the application of artificial intelligence and other automation technologies, numerous industries have leveraged these technical advances to innovate their business processes
The authors tested the feasibility of the proposed prototypical Korea BIM (KBIM) building e-Submission system, received positive users’ feedback, and obtained significant results
Since the submission was based on the industry foundation classes (IFC) file format, which is an international standard data model, designers did not need to use specific Building Information Modeling (BIM) software

Summary

Introduction

With the popularization of smart devices and the application of artificial intelligence and other automation technologies, numerous industries have leveraged these technical advances to innovate their business processes. Since 2015 (Building and Construction Authority [BCA], 2015), Singapore has required that new buildings that are more than 5000 m2 be submitted as a BIM model, and, in Korea, BIM has been compulsory for all public sector projects since 2016 (Cheng & Lu, 2015; Edirisinghe & London, 2015). After such mandate, the submitted model has no significant effect on the permitting process, and many of the models are only used as a reference for checking designs, while the permitting approvals are still based on checking the 2D drawings. In the first stage, which is described in this paper, the proposed prototypical system was tested in an environment that was similar to that of the existing architectural administration information system (SEUMTER)

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