Fire Safety in Tall Timber Building: A BIM-Based Automated Code-Checking Approach
Fire safety regulations impose very strict requirements on building design, especially for buildings built with combustible materials. It is believed that it is possible to improve the management of these regulations with a better integration of fire protection aspects in the building information mo...
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| description | Fire safety regulations impose very strict requirements on building design, especially for buildings built with combustible materials. It is believed that it is possible to improve the management of these regulations with a better integration of fire protection aspects in the building information modeling (BIM) approach. A new BIM-based domain is emerging, the automated code checking, with its growing number of dedicated approaches. However, only very few of these works have been dedicated to managing the compliance to fire safety regulations in timber buildings. In this paper, the applicability to fire safety in the Canadian context is studied by constituting and executing a complete method from the regulations text through code-checking construction to result analysis. A design science approach is used to propose a code-checking method with a detailed analysis of the National Building Code of Canada (NBCC) in order to obtain the required information. The method starts by retrieving information from the regulation text, leading to a compliance check of an architectural building model. Then, the method is tested on a set of fire safety regulations and validated on a building model from a real project. The selected fire safety rules set a solid basis for further development of checking rules for the field of fire safety. This study shows that the main challenges for rule checking are the modeling standards and the elements’ required levels of detail. The implementation of the method was successful for geometrical as well as non-geometrical requirements, although further work is needed for more advanced geometrical studies, such as sprinkler or fire dampers positioning. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aac048187da64206b1b6fd2a9611b7412023-11-20T06:11:55ZengMDPI AGBuildings2075-53092020-07-0110712110.3390/buildings10070121Fire Safety in Tall Timber Building: A BIM-Based Automated Code-Checking ApproachKristina Kincelova0Conrad Boton1Pierre Blanchet2Christian Dagenais3NSERC Industrial Research Chair on Ecoresponsible Wood Construction (CIRCERB), Forest and Wood Sciences Department, Université Laval, 2425 rue de la Terrasse, Quebec City, QC G1V 0A6, CanadaDepartment of Construction Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, QC H3C 1K3, CanadaNSERC Industrial Research Chair on Ecoresponsible Wood Construction (CIRCERB), Forest and Wood Sciences Department, Université Laval, 2425 rue de la Terrasse, Quebec City, QC G1V 0A6, CanadaNSERC Industrial Research Chair on Ecoresponsible Wood Construction (CIRCERB), Forest and Wood Sciences Department, Université Laval, 2425 rue de la Terrasse, Quebec City, QC G1V 0A6, CanadaFire safety regulations impose very strict requirements on building design, especially for buildings built with combustible materials. It is believed that it is possible to improve the management of these regulations with a better integration of fire protection aspects in the building information modeling (BIM) approach. A new BIM-based domain is emerging, the automated code checking, with its growing number of dedicated approaches. However, only very few of these works have been dedicated to managing the compliance to fire safety regulations in timber buildings. In this paper, the applicability to fire safety in the Canadian context is studied by constituting and executing a complete method from the regulations text through code-checking construction to result analysis. A design science approach is used to propose a code-checking method with a detailed analysis of the National Building Code of Canada (NBCC) in order to obtain the required information. The method starts by retrieving information from the regulation text, leading to a compliance check of an architectural building model. Then, the method is tested on a set of fire safety regulations and validated on a building model from a real project. The selected fire safety rules set a solid basis for further development of checking rules for the field of fire safety. This study shows that the main challenges for rule checking are the modeling standards and the elements’ required levels of detail. The implementation of the method was successful for geometrical as well as non-geometrical requirements, although further work is needed for more advanced geometrical studies, such as sprinkler or fire dampers positioning.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/10/7/121BIMfire safetycompliance checkingbuilding codevisual programming |
| spellingShingle | Kristina Kincelova Conrad Boton Pierre Blanchet Christian Dagenais Fire Safety in Tall Timber Building: A BIM-Based Automated Code-Checking Approach Buildings BIM fire safety compliance checking building code visual programming |
| title | Fire Safety in Tall Timber Building: A BIM-Based Automated Code-Checking Approach |
| title_full | Fire Safety in Tall Timber Building: A BIM-Based Automated Code-Checking Approach |
| title_fullStr | Fire Safety in Tall Timber Building: A BIM-Based Automated Code-Checking Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fire Safety in Tall Timber Building: A BIM-Based Automated Code-Checking Approach |
| title_short | Fire Safety in Tall Timber Building: A BIM-Based Automated Code-Checking Approach |
| title_sort | fire safety in tall timber building a bim based automated code checking approach |
| topic | BIM fire safety compliance checking building code visual programming |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/10/7/121 |
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