Integrating building and context information for automated zoning code checking: a review

Abstract

Interoperability approaches have attracted much attention in the AEC/FM industry with the increased interest in Building Information Modeling (BIM) studies since 2000’s. Especially, the integration of BIM with GIS is crucial for areas, which need detailed information on buildings and their surroundings. Automated code compliance checking against zoning codes is an area that requires both zoning data and building design data. In an ideal automated zoning code checking process, building codes should be retrieved from the responsible authority, data regarding the neighborhood the project is located in should be retrieved directly from the local municipality’s GIS, and the building project should be supplied by the designer as a BIM file. The checking process should be able to work with a combination of GIS and BIM data and generate a compliance report. Although recent BIM-GIS integration efforts have been successful in some areas, BIM-GIS integration studies in the context of automated zoning code compliance checking are limited, and the data interoperability problem in this field still needs to be addressed. This paper intends to (1) provide a critical review and analysis of the current BIM and GIS integration studies for building permit processes, (2) present the opportunities that the implementation of integrating BIM and GIS might bring to the automated zoning compliance checking domain and (3) identify promising integration approaches for future efforts.

Process model for international building permit benchmarking and a validation example using the Israeli building permit process

“…Interviewees mentioned this inconsistency for example between the regulations of all the involved stakeholders to the guidelines and policies of the municipality Table 1. Challenges identified from the interviews Building permit process benchmarking automated code compliance checking (such as (Han et al, 1997;Pauwels et al, 2011;Dimyadi and Amor, 2013;Malsane et al, 2015;Preidel and Borrmann, 2016;Zhou and El-Gohary, 2016;Macit Ilal and Gunaydin, 2017;Kim et al, 2019;Temel and Basaga, 2020;Guo et al, 2021;_ Ilal and _ Ilal, 2022;Zhou et al, 2022;). Even when considering that code checking is an important part, it is just one step within the entire building permit process focusing only on a part of the content check within the review.…”

“…, 2015; Preidel and Borrmann, 2016; Zhou and El-Gohary, 2016; Macit Ilal and Gunaydin, 2017; Kim et al. , 2019; Temel and Basaga, 2020; Guo et al ., 2021; İlal and İlal, 2022; Zhou et al. , 2022; Bloch et al.…”

The Development of an Automated System for a Quality Evaluation of Engineering BIM Models: A Case Study

“…The research conducted by Yogana and Latief [28] developed a WBS-based information system integrated with a BIM application to generate a BIM component for regulatory requirement verification. The research conducted by Altintas and Ilal [29] presented the opportunities that the integration of BIM and GIS could introduce to the field of automated zoning compliance assessment. However, the above works have not considered the quality and consistency of BIM data.…”