Keynote presentation for the 32nd CIB W78 conference in Eindhoven (2015): "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities". With many thanks to the researchers who are referenced throughout the presentation. http://cib-w78-2015.bwk.tue.nl/

1. The Web of Construction Data:
Pathways and Opportunities
Pieter Pauwels, Ghent University
pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be
CIB W078 conference
Keynote
27 October 2015

2. WHERE IS IFCOWL?

3. Pieter Pauwels, Walter Terkaj and Jakob Beetz, Proposed Recommendation: EXPRESS-to-OWL conversion
routine. BuildingSMART International

4. Pieter Pauwels and Walter Terkaj, EXPRESS to OWL for construction industry: towards a recommendable and
usable ifcOWL ontology. Automation in Construction (2016). In press.

5. LINKED BUILDING DATA IS NOT JUST
IFCOWL…

6. IT’S ABOUT LINKED DATA

9. BIM
GIS

10. SHOWCASE OF OPPORTUNITIES

11. Joining / combining initiatives
W3C LBD Community Group BuildingSMART Linked Data
Working Group
linkedbuildingdata.net
www.w3.org/community/lbd/
…
linkedbuildingdata people
LDAC event

13. Product Information
Conceptinstanceindex
IFD(Concepts)SearchEngine IFC(CAD)
librarians
manufacturers
Product Information BIMModel
engineer

14. ifcOWL - bsDD
http://bsdd.buildingsmart.org/
=> Explore integration/coupling of bSDD with ifcOWL
=> Explore publication, processing of bSDD as Linked Data

15. Peer-to-peer, distributed vocabulary
repositories
Jakob Beetz and Pieter Pauwels, Use cases for ifcOWL and Linked Data in the buildingSMART ecosystem.
buildingSMART Standards Summit Singapore, October 2015.

16. Jakob Beetz and Pieter Pauwels, Use cases for ifcOWL and Linked Data in the buildingSMART ecosystem.
buildingSMART Standards Summit Singapore, October 2015.

18. Jakob Beetz, GIS / BIM interoperabiliteit: STUMICO presentatie April 2014.
http://www.slideshare.net/JakobBeetz/gis-bim-interoperabiliteit-stumico-presentatie-april-2014 .

19. ifcOWL - geoSPARQL
URI: http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#

20. 20
http://al4sc.inrialpes.fr/alid/1441722391872/2915
Ontology alignment IFC4 - geonames

21. Jakob Beetz, GIS / BIM interoperabiliteit: STUMICO presentatie April 2014.
http://www.slideshare.net/JakobBeetz/gis-bim-interoperabiliteit-stumico-presentatie-april-2014 .

22. Jakob Beetz, GIS / BIM interoperabiliteit: STUMICO presentatie April 2014.
http://www.slideshare.net/JakobBeetz/gis-bim-interoperabiliteit-stumico-presentatie-april-2014 .

23. Jakob Beetz, GIS / BIM interoperabiliteit: STUMICO presentatie April 2014.
http://www.slideshare.net/JakobBeetz/gis-bim-interoperabiliteit-stumico-presentatie-april-2014 .

24. Jakob Beetz, GIS / BIM interoperabiliteit: STUMICO presentatie April 2014.
http://www.slideshare.net/JakobBeetz/gis-bim-interoperabiliteit-stumico-presentatie-april-2014 .

25. Jakob Beetz, Michelle Lindlar, Stefan Dietze, Ujwal Gadiraju, Dag Field Edvardsen, Lars Bjørkhaug, Ontological
Framework for a Semantic Digital Archive. DuraArk Deliverable D3.3.2.

27. Seppo Törmä, Jyrki Oraskari, Nam Vu Hoang, DRUM – Distributed Transactional Building Information
Management. First Intl. Workshop on Linked Data in Architecture and Construction, Ghent, BE, 2012.

28. Jakob Beetz and Pieter Pauwels, Use cases for ifcOWL and Linked Data in the buildingSMART ecosystem.
buildingSMART Standards Summit Singapore, October 2015.

29. Seppo Törmä, Jyrki Oraskari, Nam Vu Hoang, DRUM – Distributed Transactional Building Information
Management. First Intl. Workshop on Linked Data in Architecture and Construction, Ghent, BE, 2012.

30. Jakob Beetz, Michelle Lindlar, Stefan Dietze, Ujwal Gadiraju, Dag Field Edvardsen, Lars Bjørkhaug, Ontological
Framework for a Semantic Digital Archive. DuraArk Deliverable D3.3.2.

32. System architecture of the ontology-based hazard
identification application in BIM
Sijie Zhang, Frank Boukamp, Jochen Teizer. Ontology-based semantic modeling of construction safety
knowledge: Towards automated safety planning for job hazard analysis (JHA). Automation in Construction
52: 29-41, 2015.

33. What happens in the BIM software
Sijie Zhang, Frank Boukamp, Jochen Teizer. Ontology-based semantic modeling of construction safety
knowledge: Towards automated safety planning for job hazard analysis (JHA). Automation in Construction
52: 29-41, 2015.

34. JHA reports generated by JHA Advisor app
Sijie Zhang, Frank Boukamp, Jochen Teizer. Ontology-based semantic modeling of construction safety
knowledge: Towards automated safety planning for job hazard analysis (JHA). Automation in Construction
52: 29-41, 2015.

36. • StatisticsOntology: basic concepts about probability distributions and descriptive statistics.
• fsm: basic concepts to model a finite state machine.
• FsmExtension: extensions to fsm and integration with StatisticsOntology
• IFC_ADD1: ifcOWL automatically converted from IFC_ADD1.exp
• ifcOWL_rules: add class expressions to ifcOWL derived from WHERE rules in IFC_ADD1.exp
• ifcOWL_extension: integration of modules and general purpose extensions of ifcOWL
• FactoryDomain: specialization of ifcOWL with definitions related to products, processes, and systems
• SuFSeFFactory: specialization of ifcOWL and Factory concepts related to industrial building
sustainability.
ifcOWL for Virtual Factory Data Model (VFDM)
Walter Terkaj. Ontology-based Factory Design & Management. 3rd Intl. Workshop on Linked Data in
Architecture and Construction. Eindhove, NL, 2015.

37. Walter Terkaj. Ontology-based Factory Design & Management. 3rd Intl. Workshop on Linked Data in
Architecture and Construction. Eindhove, NL, 2015.

39. Three data sources:
1. A BIM Model
2. Catalogue of building products
3. Regulations
Building Product Suggestions
Goncal Costa and Pieter Pauwels. Building product suggestions for a BIM model based on rule sets and
a semantic reasoning engine. CIB W78 conference 2015.

40. INFERENCE RULES
BIM model information
Regulation Information
Products Information
(Catalogue)
Formula
Checking
calculation
BAUKOM
Conclusion inferred
Regulations
(Official docs, etc.)
BIM Model
Product catalogue
Extraction process
SPARQL queries
OWL/RDF(S) Files
(Revit semantic model)
USE CASE – Checking and suggestion for the selection of precast concrete building products
RULE-CHECKING AND SUGGESTION SYSTEM
• Data sources involved:
Checking precast components and propose best alternatives of products
1
2
3
Goncal Costa and Pieter Pauwels. Building product suggestions for a BIM model based on rule sets and
a semantic reasoning engine. CIB W78 conference 2015.

42. Semantic BIM: schematic overview
materials
databases
materials
databases
materials
databases
IFC
instance of
NBN
S01-400-
1
standards and application-specific
calculations
N3 rules
Reasoner
Pieter Pauwels and Davy Van Deursen. IFC-to-RDF: adaptation, aggregation and enrichment. CIB W78
conference 2015, First Intl. Workshop on Linked Data in Architecture and Construction, Ghent, BE, 2012.

43. Jakob Beetz and Pieter Pauwels, Use cases for ifcOWL and Linked Data in the buildingSMART ecosystem.
buildingSMART Standards Summit Singapore, October 2015.

44. Rules schematic overview
inference engine
OWL ontologies
query
User
RDF Repository
interface
IF-THEN rule repository
response in
RDF graph
P. Pauwels and Sijie Zhang. Semantic rule checking for regulation compliance checking: an overview of
strategies and approaches. 32nd CIB W78 Conference. Eindhoven, NL, 2015.

45. Acoustic building performance checking
P. Pauwels, D. Van Deursen, R. Verstraeten, J. De Roo, R. De Meyer, R. Van de Walle, J. Van Campenhout.
A semantic rule checking environment for building performance checking. Automation in Construction
20: 506-518, 2011.
 Speed!
 Formal representation and structure!
 Proof available!

47. H. Wicaksono. Rules Integration in OWL BIM for Holistic Energy Management in Operational Phase. 3rd
Intl. Workshop on Linked Data in Architecture and Construction. Eindhoven, NL, 2015.

49. James O’Donnell, Edward Corry, Edward Curry, Marcus Keane. Building and using multi-domain data . 1st
Intl. Workshop on Linked Data in Architecture and Construction. Ghent, BE, 2012.

50. James O’Donnell, Edward Corry, Edward Curry, Marcus Keane. Building and using multi-domain data . 1st
Intl. Workshop on Linked Data in Architecture and Construction. Ghent, BE, 2012.

51. James O’Donnell, Edward Corry, Edward Curry, Marcus Keane. Building and using multi-domain data . 1st
Intl. Workshop on Linked Data in Architecture and Construction. Ghent, BE, 2012.

52. James O’Donnell, Edward Corry, Edward Curry, Marcus Keane. Building and using multi-domain data . 1st
Intl. Workshop on Linked Data in Architecture and Construction. Ghent, BE, 2012.

54. Goncal Costa, Alvaro Sicilia, Leandro Madrazo. Energy efficiency of buildings. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Linked
Data in Architecture and Construction. Helsinki, FI, 2014.

55. Goncal Costa, Alvaro Sicilia, Leandro Madrazo. Energy efficiency of buildings. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Linked
Data in Architecture and Construction. Helsinki, FI, 2014.

56. Goncal Costa, Alvaro Sicilia, Leandro Madrazo. Energy efficiency of buildings. 1st Intl. Workshop on Linked
Data in Architecture and Construction. Ghent, BE, 2012.

57. Goncal Costa, Alvaro Sicilia, Leandro Madrazo. Energy efficiency of buildings. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Linked
Data in Architecture and Construction. Helsinki, FI, 2014.

58. TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED DIGITAL
BUILT ENVIRONMENT

60. Thank you
Pieter Pauwels, Ghent University
http://users.ugent.be/~pipauwel/
pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be