New paper about extending Information Delivery Specification (IDS) published

Simon Fischer, Harald Urban, Christian Schranz, Patrick Loibl, and Léon van Berlo have published a paper on the extension of the Information Delivery Specification (IDS) standard for its use in an openBIM-based building permit process in the scientific journal "Developments in the Built Environment".

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Information Delivery Specification (IDS) is quickly gaining ground in the openBIM community. As an open standard, IDS is of great interest to public sector organisations such as building authorities. We therefore investigated how IDS could be used in the context of automated compliance checking. We focused on two possible applications: First, specifying very targeted information requirements for code compliance checks, using escape route analysis as an example. Second, using IDS to directly define simple code compliance checks. To realise these applications of IDS, we propose extensions to IDS that build on and combine existing functionalities. The main extension was the filtering of elements depending on the characteristics of related elements. The nesting of existing functionalities allowed the schema to remain simple, which is one of its greatest strengths.

The key highlights of the publication are:
- IDS is introduced into the building permit process,
- extending IDS enables targeted information requirements and code compliance checks,
- IDS becomes a rule language for code compliance checking,
- nesting of existing IDS functionality enables enhanced relational constraints, and
- the extension allows IDS to be used for different purposes in building authorities.

The full publication can be found here:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dibe.2024.100560, opens an external URL in a new window