Capabilities of rule representations for automated compliance checking in healthcare buildings
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Published version
Author(s)
Zhang, Zijing
Nisbet, Nicholas
Ma, Ling
Broyd, Tim
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A suitable rule representation is essential to enable automated compliance checking of building design. It encapsulates engineering knowledge and facilitates an adequate interpretation of design standards. However, existing methods have achieved limited capabilities to represent rules for automated compliance checking. Thus, they merely worked for limited types of rules. This paper aims to identify capabilities needed for rule representation by using healthcare design regulations as an example. It can serve as a foundation for developing rule engines and compliance-checking systems in the future. A four-step process was used to systematically analyse six healthcare building regulations in rule-oriented and implementation aspects. The results showed 18 capabilities for healthcare rule representation, where 16 are required, and two are desirable. This research is valuable to researchers and practitioners by providing a checklist for future representation development and criteria for assessing rule representation methods.
Date Issued
2023-02-01
Date Acceptance
2022-11-22
Citation
Automation in Construction, 2023, 146
ISSN
0926-5805
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Journal / Book Title
Automation in Construction
Volume
146
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
License URL
Identifier
10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104688
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
104688
Date Publish Online
2022-11-30