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The Web of Construction Data:
Pathways and Opportunities
Pieter Pauwels, Ghent University
pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be
CIB W078 conference
Keynote
27 October 2015
WHERE IS IFCOWL?
Pieter Pauwels, Walter Terkaj and Jakob Beetz, Proposed Recommendation: EXPRESS-to-OWL conversion
routine. BuildingSMART International
Pieter Pauwels and Walter Terkaj, EXPRESS to OWL for construction industry: towards a recommendable and
usable ifcOWL ontology. Automation in Construction (2016). In press.
LINKED BUILDING DATA IS NOT JUST
IFCOWL…
IT’S ABOUT LINKED DATA
CIB W78 2015 - Keynote "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities"
CIB W78 2015 - Keynote "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities"
BIM
GIS
SHOWCASE OF OPPORTUNITIES
Joining / combining initiatives
W3C LBD Community Group BuildingSMART Linked Data
Working Group
linkedbuildingdata.net
www.w3.org/community/lbd/
…
linkedbuildingdata people
LDAC event
CIB W78 2015 - Keynote "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities"
Product Information
Conceptinstanceindex
IFD(Concepts)SearchEngine IFC(CAD)
librarians
manufacturers
Product Information BIMModel
engineer
ifcOWL - bsDD
http://bsdd.buildingsmart.org/
=> Explore integration/coupling of bSDD with ifcOWL
=> Explore publication, processing of bSDD as Linked Data
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.
Jakob Beetz and Pieter Pauwels, Use cases for ifcOWL and Linked Data in the buildingSMART ecosystem.
buildingSMART Standards Summit Singapore, October 2015.
CIB W78 2015 - Keynote "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities"
Jakob Beetz, GIS / BIM interoperabiliteit: STUMICO presentatie April 2014.
http://www.slideshare.net/JakobBeetz/gis-bim-interoperabiliteit-stumico-presentatie-april-2014 .
ifcOWL - geoSPARQL
URI: http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#
20
http://al4sc.inrialpes.fr/alid/1441722391872/2915
Ontology alignment IFC4 - geonames
Jakob Beetz, GIS / BIM interoperabiliteit: STUMICO presentatie April 2014.
http://www.slideshare.net/JakobBeetz/gis-bim-interoperabiliteit-stumico-presentatie-april-2014 .
Jakob Beetz, GIS / BIM interoperabiliteit: STUMICO presentatie April 2014.
http://www.slideshare.net/JakobBeetz/gis-bim-interoperabiliteit-stumico-presentatie-april-2014 .
Jakob Beetz, GIS / BIM interoperabiliteit: STUMICO presentatie April 2014.
http://www.slideshare.net/JakobBeetz/gis-bim-interoperabiliteit-stumico-presentatie-april-2014 .
Jakob Beetz, GIS / BIM interoperabiliteit: STUMICO presentatie April 2014.
http://www.slideshare.net/JakobBeetz/gis-bim-interoperabiliteit-stumico-presentatie-april-2014 .
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.
CIB W78 2015 - Keynote "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities"
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.
Jakob Beetz and Pieter Pauwels, Use cases for ifcOWL and Linked Data in the buildingSMART ecosystem.
buildingSMART Standards Summit Singapore, October 2015.
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.
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.
CIB W78 2015 - Keynote "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities"
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.
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.
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.
CIB W78 2015 - Keynote "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities"
• 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.
Walter Terkaj. Ontology-based Factory Design & Management. 3rd Intl. Workshop on Linked Data in
Architecture and Construction. Eindhove, NL, 2015.
CIB W78 2015 - Keynote "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities"
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.
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.
CIB W78 2015 - Keynote "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities"
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.
Jakob Beetz and Pieter Pauwels, Use cases for ifcOWL and Linked Data in the buildingSMART ecosystem.
buildingSMART Standards Summit Singapore, October 2015.
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.
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!
CIB W78 2015 - Keynote "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities"
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.
CIB W78 2015 - Keynote "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities"
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.
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.
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.
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.
CIB W78 2015 - Keynote "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities"
Goncal Costa, Alvaro Sicilia, Leandro Madrazo. Energy efficiency of buildings. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Linked
Data in Architecture and Construction. Helsinki, FI, 2014.
Goncal Costa, Alvaro Sicilia, Leandro Madrazo. Energy efficiency of buildings. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Linked
Data in Architecture and Construction. Helsinki, FI, 2014.
Goncal Costa, Alvaro Sicilia, Leandro Madrazo. Energy efficiency of buildings. 1st Intl. Workshop on Linked
Data in Architecture and Construction. Ghent, BE, 2012.
Goncal Costa, Alvaro Sicilia, Leandro Madrazo. Energy efficiency of buildings. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Linked
Data in Architecture and Construction. Helsinki, FI, 2014.
TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED DIGITAL
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
CIB W78 2015 - Keynote "The Web of Construction Data:Pathways and Opportunities"
Thank you
Pieter Pauwels, Ghent University
http://users.ugent.be/~pipauwel/
pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be

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

Editor's Notes

  1. - An example of implementation to check BIM models and propose building products have been done based on three data sources that need to be combined to this aim. - We have demonstrated for the use case of “Hollow-core slabs” Design criterion: The dimensions of the concrete components should be as thin or slender as possible vertheless keeping compliance with the structural integrity and the associated regulations
  2. In computer systems, a framework is often a layered structure indicating what kind of programs can or should be built and how they would interrelate. Some computer system frameworks also include actual programs, specify programming interfaces, or offer programming tools for using the frameworks. A framework may be for a set of functions within a system and how they interrelate; the layers of an operating system; the layers of an application subsystem; how communication should be standardized at some level of a network; and so forth. A framework is generally more comprehensive than a protocol and more prescriptive than a structure . Basic concepts: - In general, multiple data are generated in the urban scale (e.g. policy markers) - So, we can integrate this data for specific uses (in this case, to help municipally authorities to reduce the CO2 consuming through services)
  3. Data integration from multiple data sources applied in four cases