Delivering the Infrastructure for Digital Building Regulations

摘要

The building industry uses numerous engineering standards, building codes, specifications, and regulations (henceforth, all are referred to as "regulations" for the purposes of brevity), and a diverse set of industry vocabularies to describe, assess, and deliver constructed facilities. These building regulations are available as hardcopy and searchable digital documents. Some building design software applications (e.g., building-energy analysis and fire-egress assessment) are available that include computer-interpretable representations of the logic and rules from relevant building regulations. As part of the expanding use of building information modeling and new types of software applications, building and regulatory stakeholders and their software suppliers are recognizing the value of combining building models with rule sets for multi-domain analyses, optimization, and assessing regulatory compliance. The availability of validated representations of building regulations for use by model-checking applications will streamline and shorten the building process, reduce inefficiencies and errors in the process, and enable new capabilities for optimizing designs and for automating the regulations-compliance assessment process.