Semantic technologies and interoperability in the built environment

Pauwels, Pieter; Poveda‐Villalón, María; Sicilia, Álvaro; Euzenat, Jérôme

doi:10.3233/sw-180321

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“…One of the limitations of ifcOWL is that some of its modelling specifications are inconsistent with the Semantic Web best practices, like the definition of boolean and relations. The current condition of ifcOWL encompasses some syntactic structures that originate from the EXPRESS schema, making the ifcOWL ontology like the IFC data model complex, hard to understand, and inefficient in reasoning (Pauwels, Poveda-Villalón, Sicilia, & Euzenat, 2018;Schneider, Rasmussen, Bonsma, Oraskari, & Pauwels, 2018). The size of ifcOWL could be another limitation of this schema.…”

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Application of semantic Web ontologies for the improvement of information exchange in existing buildings

Sadeghineko

Kumar

2021

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Purpose Facilitating the information exchange and interoperability between stakeholders during the life-cycle of an asset can be one of the fundamental necessities for developing an enhanced information exchange framework. Such a framework can also improve the successful accomplishment of building projects. This paper aims to use Semantic Web technologies for facilitating information exchange within existing building projects. Design/methodology/approach In real-world building projects, the construction industry’s information supply chain may initiate from near scratch when new building projects are started resulting in diverse data structures represented in unstructured data sources, like Excel spreadsheets and documents. Large-scale data generated throughout a building's life-cycle requires exchanging and processing during an asset's Operation and Maintenance (O&M) phase. Building information modelling (BIM) processes and related technologies can address some of the challenges and limitations of information exchange and interoperability within new building projects. However, the use of BIM in existing and retrofit assets has been hampered by the challenges surrounding the limitations of existing technologies. Findings The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it briefly outlines the framework previously developed for generating semantically enriched 3D retrofit models. Secondly, a framework is proposed focussing on facilitating the information exchange and interoperability for existing buildings. Semantic Web technologies and standards, such as Web Ontology Language and existing AEC domain ontologies are used to enhance and improve the proposed framework. Originality/value The proposed framework is evaluated by implementing an example application and the Resource Description Framework data produced by the previously developed framework. The proposed approach makes a valuable contribution to the asset/facilities management (AM/FM) domain. It should be of interest to various FM practices for existing assets, such as the building information/knowledge management for design, construction and O&M stages of an asset’s life-cycle.

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Application of semantic Web ontologies for the improvement of information exchange in existing buildings

Sadeghineko

Kumar

2021

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“…Within the AEC industry, the use of semantic web technologies in the form of ontology development has increased over the years (Pauwels et al, 2018). Ontological studies have focussed on mapping knowledge discretely during the design, construction, and operational phase of an infrastructure's lifecycle.…”

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Platology: A Digital Twin Ontology Suite for the Complete Lifecycle of Infrastructure

Khan¹,

Tomar²,

Hartmann³

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the 29th EG-ICE International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering

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The construction industry will have to presentcompelling solutionsto achieve the UN societal development goals (SDG).A digital twin has the potential to revolutionize the design, construction, and performance of civil infrastructureassets across the environment.This paper proposes an ontology mappingthe physical objects with required attributes aiming toaugment builtinfrastructure developmentthroughout theircomplete lifecycle in the context of cyber-physical synchronicity of the digital twin paradigm. This research is conducted within the frameworkof the H2020 project ASHVIN, aiming to develop a real-time Digital Twin forthe Design, Construction,and Operationphase of the infrastructure. The proposed “Platology”ontology suite will encompassphysical assets and processes of aninfrastructure’slifecycleand the possibility for accurate version, configuration, and state managementto form a bidirectional communication path between the physical and the virtual.

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“…However, the open-exchange IFC format is increasingly mandatory for publicly supported construction projects in several countries. Unfortunately there are clear limitations in the IFC [55], [56], [57], [58], [59], [60], meaning that BIM struggles to connect and retrieve all the desired data. IFC data often lack the flexibility required in unique and unconventional work processes [55], [59].…”

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The Concept of Enterprise BIM: Current Research Practice and Future Trends

2021

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The construction industry lacks a comprehensive and holistic way of utilising Building Information Modelling (BIM) throughout a building's life-cycle, where the transition to Asset Management (AM) and Facility Management (FM) is particularly lacking. Enterprise BIM (EBIM) is an emerging, unexplored, holistic organisational concept that is designed to support and optimise business management throughout the entire life-cycles of buildings and infrastructure. However, current understanding and implementation of EBIM is rare. To fix this gap in knowledge, this paper defines the EBIM concept and assesses associated perspectives from research and practice in order to integrate BIM more strongly into the enterprise's core processes and other needs at different levels within the organisation and externally. To achieve a higher and more efficient utilisation of building data, however, EBIMs need to develop a clear life-cycle-based information management strategy, including coordination and communication between all stakeholders. The paper highlights and discusses the importance of both available and missing standards related to the effective implementation of EBIM. Several existing open standards have been identified to help strengthen the EBIM concept. The paper identifies a need to develop standards to integrate BIM and IoT (the Internet of Things) and standards that can handle both structured and unstructured data. The authors have conducted a wide-ranging review of research, practice and existing standards and considers today's potential for using EBIM, as well as discusses existing challenges and future research needs. Furthermore, the EBIM concept is contextualised by providing a case study with focus on cleaning. This study identifies a need to develop best practices in interdisciplinary collaborative projects. Such practical implementation requires integrated and standardised information and technology management and the exploitation of the available technologies in interdisciplinary interaction with those involved in the various processes and the flow of information throughout the life-cycle.

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Semantic technologies and interoperability in the built environment

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Application of semantic Web ontologies for the improvement of information exchange in existing buildings

Application of semantic Web ontologies for the improvement of information exchange in existing buildings

Platology: A Digital Twin Ontology Suite for the Complete Lifecycle of Infrastructure

The Concept of Enterprise BIM: Current Research Practice and Future Trends

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