Real-Time Assessment of Regulatory Compliance of Construction Sites

Abstract: Previous work on automatic compliance checking has targeted static descriptions of the built environment represented in Building Information Models. In contrast, this work examines the potential of semantic mark-up to capture and then apply health and safety regulations to live construction sites. There are significant differences in what constitutes a testable metric and what constitutes a fact when considering process rather than product compliance. Extensions to the RASE approach are defined and demonstrated to accommodate these differences. This leads to extending the concept of ‘decidability’ with considerations around the ‘timeliness’ of information.