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Automating Code Checking For Building Designs -Designcheck, Lan Ding, Robin Drogemuller, Mike Rosenman, David Marchant, John Gero
Automating Code Checking For Building Designs -Designcheck, Lan Ding, Robin Drogemuller, Mike Rosenman, David Marchant, John Gero
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This paper presents an automated code checking system (DesignCheck) that enables quick and easy compliance assessment against building codes and assists designers in finding potential problems early. The system enables modelling of extended design information and encoding of a wider range of domain knowledge embedded in building codes. It uses Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) as a common model to transfer 3D object-based CAD models to the DesignCheck internal model. The DesignCheck internal model allows for the definition of comprehensive design information as well as identical description mapping onto building codes. Building codes are interpreted using an object-based representation and then …