Automated compliance checking in healthcare building design

Soliman-Junior, Joao; Tzortzopoulos, Patrícia; Baldauf, Juliana Parise; Pedó, Bárbara; Kagioglou, Mike; Formoso, Carlos Torres; Humphreys, Julian S.

doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103822

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“…In Singapore, research based on two case study hospitals showed that although project managers had prepared detailed construction programs with properly estimated activity durations and sufficient float, both projects still experienced delays due to client-based factors such as additional requirements or the changing scope of works by stakeholders, regulatory restrictions placed by the Singapore government on bringing in foreign labor, and aggregate shortage due to a foreign government's ban on exporting aggregates [47]. Other government-related constraints that could contribute to delays in hospital projects include statutory design compliance issues, which can manifest in designs being delayed or reworked, and, in this regard, the automation of compliance checking can speed up the design process while minimizing future reworking [48]. The next section focuses on delays in the KSA context, where the issue of government/client-related delays will be examined further.…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Construction Delays In Global Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Nature and Impact of Client-Related Delays on Contemporary Saudi Construction Projects

Adamu

Alotaibi

2022

Buildings

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In rapidly developing countries such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), where the construction of buildings and supporting infrastructure is critical to achieving strategic developmental milestones, delays to capital projects can derail other sectors of the economy and could derail the Vision 2030 agenda. Attempts have been made over the years to explore the causes of construction project delays, including those in Saudi Arabia. Many of these studies are either outdated, narrow in scope, or tend to use only qualitative data, and not many have focused on the client-related delay factors affecting projects critical to Vision 2030. This study investigates client-related delay factors in terms of their correlation with key characteristics of recently completed construction projects in KSA. This objective necessitated the use of historical data; hence, an archival analysis was conducted for 37 projects among three different public sector ministries. The data were subjected to manual extraction, descriptive statistical analysis, and the use of established models such as schedule performance index (SPI) and cost performance index (CPI), and inferential (correlation) in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) using point-biserial correlation coefficient (rpb, where p > 0.05) to explore association and impact of project characteristics on themselves and on client-related causes of delay. Results revealed eight unique client-related causes of delay, with SPI values of 0.71 to 0.82, as well as CPI values ranging from 0.84 to 0.89, suggesting very poor time and cost performance across all projects, as well as the magnitude of correlation of key project characteristics (cost, duration, additional time, and additional cost) with the eight client-related causes of delay. The findings can help the client (authorities) understand and curb delays that are due to their own making, and it is recommended that such delay factors, whose likelihood are now established and whose potential impact can be measured against key project characteristics, be developed into a delay risk impact tool. International joint ventures can bring technical expertise for Vision 2030, but they cannot eliminate delays due to government practices.

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Section: Literature Review 21 Construction Delays In Global Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Nature and Impact of Client-Related Delays on Contemporary Saudi Construction Projects

Adamu

Alotaibi

2022

Buildings

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“…The same authors argue that some documents have changed over time, being revised without consideration of the overall framework, leaving gaps e.g., associated with referencing. In this context, Soliman-Junior et al [3] identified that such regulatory framework in the UK includes more than 100 documents, leading to a complex setting that involves multiple interdependencies between requirements, including complementary and potentially conflicting information across documents.…”

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“…In this context, analysing regulatory information aiming to better understand how they affect automated compliance is fundamental, as this is the starting point of automated compliance in practice [3,[15][16][17][18]. The approach that will be adopted in this paper applies a regulatory requirements taxonomy proposed by [3] specifically to healthcare-related requirements and includes different classification elements which are also relevant considering the use of automated compliance towards quality assurance (Figure 1).…”

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Automated Regulatory Compliance towards Quality Assurance in Healthcare Building Projects

Soliman-Junior

Tzortzopoulos

Kagioglou

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Healthcare building projects are severely constrained by their associated regulatory frameworks. In this context, regulatory requirements define a basic outline upon which design is developed, as well as aid designers towards compliance to minimum standards. Automation has been explored by existing research focusing mostly on compliance checking (i.e., quality control). There has been limited developments within this domain related to quality assurance. This paper aims to highlight what are key needed improvements to enable the use of automation to promote quality assurance for regulatory compliance in healthcare building projects. For this purpose, an ongoing revision of a British healthcare design guidance document (HBN 11-01) was analysed according to a requirements’ taxonomy. Key areas of improvement needs were highlighted based on a series of interviews. Our main findings relate to identifying that despite the guidance character of regulatory documents in the UK, they are rarely used for this purpose, revealing the focus on quality control. In this context, the regulatory framework could be repositioned as a catalyst towards automated design quality assurance as long as (i) the regulatory documents are developed and revised to fit automated design processes; and (ii) there are compatible software developments to streamline design processes through automation.

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“…In the AEC industry, ensuring compliance is mandatory before moving on to the construction stage (Soliman-Junior et al, 2021). However, the current manual compliance checking process is often characterised by error-prone, time-consuming and costly (Han et al, 1998;Macit İlal and Günaydın, 2017).…”

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Towards fully-automated code compliance checking of building regulations: challenges for rule interpretation and representation

Zhang¹,

Ma²,

Broyd³

2022

Computing in Construction

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Before the building design is finalised, it needs to be checked against regulations. Traditionally, manual compliance checking is error-prone and time-consuming. As a solution, automatic compliance checking (ACC) was proposed. Many studies have focused on the crucial ACC rule interpretation process, yet no research has synthesised the themes and identified future research opportunities. This paper thus aims to fill this gap by conducting a systematic literature review and identifying challenges facing this field. Findings revealed that the representation development process lacks a methodological backdrop. Understandings of rules, representations, and relationships between them are insufficient. Potential solutions were proposed to address these challenges.

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Automated compliance checking in healthcare building design

Cited by 29 publications

References 46 publications

Exploring the Nature and Impact of Client-Related Delays on Contemporary Saudi Construction Projects

Exploring the Nature and Impact of Client-Related Delays on Contemporary Saudi Construction Projects

Automated Regulatory Compliance towards Quality Assurance in Healthcare Building Projects

Towards fully-automated code compliance checking of building regulations: challenges for rule interpretation and representation

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