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New paper about the storage of escape routes in BIM models published

Simon Fischer, Harald Urban, Christian Schranz, Matthias Haselberger and Florian Schnabel have published a paper in the scientific journal "Developments in the Built Environment" on the generation of a new domain model for escape routes in the open IFC standard.

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BIM is finding its way into the building permit process around the world.
In this context, the secure and permanent archiving of data plays a very important role for building authorities. The use of BIM models in open formats such as IFC ensures this long-term data availability. However, during the code compliance checking of the permit process, new explicit data is generated from information implicitly contained in the building models. This information was previously only available within, and not independent of, the checking application used. Our paper presents an approach to generate a new IFC domain model from the generated escape route results for use by the building authority.

The key highlights of the publication are: 
- introducing a new BIM domain model for escape routes, 
- a concept how to store calculation results permanently and independently in IFC,
- analysis of IFC for representing abstract objects like escape routes, and
- enabling secure archiving of building permission data for building authorities.

The full publication can be found here:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dibe.2024.100499, opens an external URL in a new window