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Alwan, Z, Greenwood, D and Gledson, B (2015) Rapid LEED evaluation performed with BIM-based sustainability analysis on a virtual construction project. Construction Innovation, 15(02), 134-50.

Hosseini, M R, Chileshe, N, Zuo, J and Baroudi, B (2015) Adopting global virtual engineering teams in AEC projects: A qualitative meta-analysis of innovation diffusion studies. Construction Innovation, 15(02), 151-79.

Jansson, G, Lundkvist, R and Olofsson, T (2015) The role of experience feedback channels in the continuous development of house-building platforms. Construction Innovation, 15(02), 236-55.

Jingmond, M and Ågren, R (2015) Unravelling causes of defects in construction. Construction Innovation, 15(02), 198-218.

Kähkönen, K E E (2015) Role and nature of systemic innovations in construction and real estate sector. Construction Innovation, 15(02), 130-3.

Karan, E, Irizarry, J and Haymaker, J (2015) Generating IFC models from heterogeneous data using semantic web. Construction Innovation, 15(02), 219-35.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: semantic web,bim,construction management,interoperability,ifc,query mapping
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  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/CI-05-2014-0030
  • Abstract:
    Purpose - This paper aims to develop a framework to represent semantic web query results as Industry Foundation Class (IFC) building models. The subject of interoperability has received considerable attention in the construction literature in recent years. Given the distributed, semantically heterogeneous data sources, the problem is to retrieve information accurately and with minimal human intervention by considering their semantic descriptions. Design/methodology/approach - This paper provides a framework to translate semantic web query results into the XML representations of IFC schema and data. Using the concepts and relationships in an IFC schema, the authors first develop an ontology to specify an equivalent IFC entity in the query results. Then, a mapping structure is defined and used to translate and fill all query results into an ifcXML document. For query processing, the proposed framework implements a set of predefined query mappings between the source schema and a corresponding IFC output schema. The resulting ifcXML document is validated with an XML schema validating parser and then loaded into a building information modeling (BIM) authoring tool. Findings - The research findings indicate that semantic web technology can be used, accurately and with minimal human intervention, to maintain semantic-level information when transforming information between web-based and BIM formats. The developed framework for representing IFC-compatible outputs allows BIM users to query and access building data at any time over the web from data providers. Originality/value - Currently, the results of semantic web queries are not supported by BIM authoring tools. Thus, the proposed framework utilizes the capabilities of semantic web and query technologies to transform the query results to an XML representation of IFC data.

Pekuri, A, Pekuri, L and Haapasalo, H (2015) Business models and project selection in construction companies. Construction Innovation, 15(02), 180-97.