Developing a Linked-Data-Based Framework for Regulation Compliance Checking in Architectural Design

Abstract: Manual regulation compliance checking remains common in architectural design, while BIM-based and semantic approaches operate outside the authoring environment, requiring specialist expertise, delaying feedback in iterative work. This paper presents a lightweight compliance-checking framework implemented as a pyRevit extension and prototyped in Autodesk Revit. The framework extracts model parameters, converts them to RDF aligned with ifcOWL and a project namespace, and validates constraints using Shapes Constraint Language. The case study shows non-compliances can be detected and reported via both documentation outputs and in-model graphical feedback. The contribution is an auditable linked-data mechanism for extensible regulation checking within BIM authoring tools.