Integration of manufacturers' product data in BIM platforms using semantic web technologies

Kebede, Rahel; Moscati, Annika; He, Tao; Johansson, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104630

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“…In conclusion, passports and logbooks are amenable to the integrating power of BIM and digital twins, which can accommodate product information (Kebede et al 2022), life cycle energy data (Shah et al 2023) and other key information in their properties and relations. In BIM, information collections such as material passports can become views of the model, similarly to bills of quantities.…”

Section: Passports and Logbooksmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Building Information Modelling to Digital Twins: Digital Representation for a Circular Economy

Koutamanis

2024

Circular Economy and Sustainability

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Building information modelling (BIM) has ushered in the era of symbolic building representation: building elements and spaces are described not by graphical elements but by discrete symbols, each with properties and relations that explicitly integrate all information. Digital twinning promises even more: a digital replica in complete sync with the building and its behaviour. Such technologies have obvious appeal for circularity because they accommodate the rich information it requires and link circularity goals to other activities in AECO (architecture, engineering, construction and operation of buildings).Present implementations of BIM may fall short of the promise, and digital twinning may be hard to achieve, but they remain crucial not only for circularity but for all AECO disciplines. To realise the potential of such representations, information should be treated not as a product of integration but as the integrator of all activities. Similarly, digitalisation should be at the core of business models and deployment plans, not an additional or even optional layer at a high cost. This calls for a coherent approach that includes the full capture of building information, supports the detailed exploration of circular operations, uses the results to constrain decisions and actions and does so throughout the life cycle.

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Section: Passports and Logbooksmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Building Information Modelling to Digital Twins: Digital Representation for a Circular Economy

Koutamanis

2024

Circular Economy and Sustainability

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“…By combining the construction product model, construction process model, construction safety model, and BIM, they were able to realize the prototype application of job hazard analysis and visualization [97]. Kebede et al combined ontology semantics and BIM to represent product data, enabling the effective entry and query of products [98]. Akanbi et al applied semantic modeling and NLP to match materials, construction projects, and material price information in building specifications, thus achieving the automatic processing of construction specifications and the automatic estimation of construction costs [95].…”

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Recent Research Progress in Intelligent Construction: A Comparison between China and Developed Countries

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Intelligent construction (IC) has emerged as a new approach to transforming the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry through the integration of advanced information technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT). However, due to its interdisciplinary nature, the relevant documents on IC are diverse and fragmented. To provide a comprehensive understanding of research progress and future opportunities in IC and to offer suggestions for both developing and developed countries, this study employed VOSviewer and Gephi to conduct a comparative review of relevant literature from the 21st century. A keyword search of Web of Science (WOS) identified 2788 relevant documents which were subjected to an overall co-citation and co-authorship analysis. To illustrate the differences between developing and developed countries, China, a representative developing country, was taken as the candidate to be compared with developed countries via a co-occurrence analysis. Differences between China and developed countries in the three sub-directions of IC, research foundation and domain knowledge transformation; information perception, fusion, and decision making; and embodied AI, were qualitatively discussed. Finally, four future research directions were suggested: (1) data fusion and decision-making, (2) improving the accuracy and efficiency of knowledge representation, learning, and utilization, (3) the establishment of large, pre-trained models in the field, and (4) embodied AI for taking actions according to the decisions made. This paper provides an overview of the relevant literature and the IC context for practitioners and scholars in the AEC industry in countries with different levels of development, as well as suggestions for the future development of IC. The findings of this study can serve both academia and industry in promoting IC in the AEC industry.

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“…GUO D et al, developed a SPARQL query method that matches user requirements with IFCOWL ontology concepts or instances to generate SPARQL queries [27]. KEBEDE R et al, used ontologies to semantically represent product data associated with the CEN/TS 17623:2021 standard, converting the data in BIM to RDF format, which allows automated building product searching [28].…”

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Design Optimization of Building Exit Locations Based on Building Information Model and Ontology

Zhao,

Huang,

Sun

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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There are usually multiple functional spaces that meet different usage needs on each building floor. The number of people in different functional spaces varies, resulting in an uneven distribution of people on each floors. When the building is subject to hazards, users inside buildings usually evacuate to safe areas through safety exits. Obviously, when the exit location is close to the crowded area, more people can be evacuated as quickly as possible. However, existing methods for optimizing exit locations of buildings mainly by shortening evacuation paths with limited considerations of the dynamic distributions of evacuees. Since the ontology has semantic description capability and reasonability. Therefore, the ontology is used to organize the design information related to the optimization of exit locations. The rules are further set to reason about the distribution of evacuees and the optimal exit location. Therefore, a design optimization method for exit locations based on BIM and ontology is proposed. Firstly, the ontology is developed to describe the information needed for design optimization. Then, the plan layout information is extracted from BIM as ontology instances. Next, based on the evacuation simulations, the exit location optimization strategies were created for the different distribution of evacuees, and the strategies were translated into SWRL rules. Finally, the ontology instance and SWRL rules are combined to reason about the exit location optimization strategies for specific projects. Therefore, this study provided the exit location optimization strategies to make the evacuation time shorter by considering the distribution of evacuees. The automation of exit location reasoning is further enhanced by using the constructed ontology to organize the design information and by transforming the optimization strategies into SWRL rules. The feasibility of the method was verified using several cases. By comparing the evacuation time of people under the exit location recommended by this method and the exit location designed by the shortest evacuation path, it is concluded that the method proposed in this paper takes into account the distribution of people in the plane and the evacuation time is shorter.

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Integration of manufacturers' product data in BIM platforms using semantic web technologies

Cited by 11 publications

References 31 publications

From Building Information Modelling to Digital Twins: Digital Representation for a Circular Economy

From Building Information Modelling to Digital Twins: Digital Representation for a Circular Economy

Recent Research Progress in Intelligent Construction: A Comparison between China and Developed Countries

Design Optimization of Building Exit Locations Based on Building Information Model and Ontology

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