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Towards Validation of IFC Models with IfcDoc and SWRL

Authors:
Muhammad Fahad
Nicolas Bus
Franck Andrieux

Keywords: Validation of IFC models; SWRL; Ontology; BIM; Querying IFC models; MVDXML.

Abstract:
Recent years have witnessed the need of automatic verification requirements to warn the non-conformities with the associated 3D visualization, or to provide access to the technical documentation for a given digital model based on its sophisticated contextual information. In this paper, we study two approaches for the validation of IFC Models, i.e., with IfcDoc and SWRL. The traditional approach is by using IfcDoc tool developed by buildingSMART International to improve the consistent and computer-interpretable definition of Model View Definitions. On the other hand, Semantic Web technologies, especially Semantic Web rule language, allow the semantic validation of IFC models to enable the compliance checking of IFC construction models with unmatchable query performance and flexibility. Therefore, we present and compare IfcDoc and Semantic Web rule language technologies for the model instance verification and conformance checking of IFC models, and demonstrate various important aspects and their limitations. We conclude that both technologies have their specific significances, but Semantic Web technologies provide a better hand over the traditional approach. The Semantic Web approach with the goal of combining the strengths of an ontology and IFC technologies makes information retrieval from an IFC model faster, flexible and also enables interoperability between IFC documents.

Pages: 7 to 13

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: June 25, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-563-0

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 25, 2017 to June 29, 2017