Towards a unifying domain model of construction safety, health and well-being: SafeConDM

BIM-based Fall Hazard Ontology and Benchmark Model for Comparison of Automated Prevention through Design Approaches in Construction Safety

“…By comparing different approaches to defining domain languages for construction safety analysis and assessment, we have chosen to follow a similar approach to the one presented in (Zhang et al, 2015a) and later adopted in (Li et al, 2022). The approach is based on IDEF5 (Peraketh et al, 1994), which consists of five subsequent steps that will generate three resulting outputs, i.e., a graphical representation of the ontology language, a structured text representation, and a procedure with a guideline for information extraction.…”

“…The domain of construction code and regulation checking is an ongoing research topic. The most commonly investigated rule is regarding fall from heights hazards as these are responsible for most fatalities in the construction industry (Collins et al, 2014;Li et al, 2022;Melzner et al, 2013;Schwabe et al, 2019). To explore automated prevention through design, one must first define a link between the construction regulation and the Building Information Model (BIM) and afterward define the logic that can check whether the regulation is violated in a given BIM model.…”

“…Figure 3 presents our latest version of IFC integration, which is based on the work presented in (Li et al, 2022). The integration utilizes the IfcProperty class and the IfcRelReferencedInSpatialStructure class to capture information about which products in the BIM model directly generate a given spatial artifact.…”

Hazard ontology and 4D benchmark model for facilitation of automated construction safety requirement analysis

“…The interaction with the domain experts has consisted of informal discussions with two responsible safety regulation enforcers in construction companies and one specialist from an organization responsible for defining the safety regulation. Besides acquiring knowledge from safety regulations and domain experts, this work has been inspired by the ontologies presented by Zhang et al (2015) and later advanced by Li et al (2022).…”

“…Spatial artifacts are empty space objects that emerge, or are generated, from the existence of a building element or a scheduled task that requires a crew consisting of workers. The collection of spatial artifacts, shown in Tables 2 and 3, where functional space and range space in the context of construction safety were first introduced in Li et al (2022Li et al ( , 2020 but extended in this work. Functional space is extended with three subclasses for construction safety, operational space, reachability space, and work space.…”