This paper presents a new approach for automated compliance checking in the construction
domain. The approach utilizes semantic modeling, semantic Natural Language Processing …

To fully automate regulatory compliance checking of construction projects, regulatory
requirements need to be automatically extracted from various construction regulatory …

Existing automated compliance checking (ACC) systems are limited in their automation; they
rely on the use of hard-coded, proprietary rules for representing regulatory requirements …

Automating the process of compliance checking is expected to reduce the time and cost of
the process, as well as reduce the probability of making compliance assessment errors …

Automated regulatory compliance checking requires automated extraction of requirements
from regulatory textual documents and their formalization in a computer-processable rule …

In the architectural, engineering and construction industry, building design needs to be
checked against regulations before it can be finalised and progress to the construction …

Manual regulatory compliance checking of construction projects is usually time-consuming
and error-prone. There have been efforts both in academia and industry to automate this …

The traditional building code compliance checking process mainly relies on design
reviewers to review design documents or models manually. The intensive manual effort …

Most of the existing automated code compliance checking (ACC) methods are unable to fully
automatically convert complex building-code requirements into computer-processable …

Existing automated compliance checking (ACC) efforts are limited in their automation and
reasoning capabilities; the state of the art in ACC still uses ad hoc reasoning …