The Right to Build is defined by textual elements that determine what an owner can build on a parcel. Such regulations contain elements that can influence the development of territories. Expressed through legal texts, their effects on the territory are difficult to assess because of the documents’ complexity and of the diversity of urban configurations. In this paper, we present a generic and e...

Abstract. Municipalities invest a lot of time and person-hours into manual building permit checks. With the increase in computational power use Building Information Models (BIM) design life cycle, several municipalities are investing automating these checks using BIM geo-data sets. However, few examples exist tools effectively geo-information with BIM. In order to address this gap, project was ...

An ontology, a formal representation of domain knowledge, is an integral building block of the semantic web and is important in building an application within interdisciplinary domains. In the food domain, regulations require Food Business Operators (FBOs) to comply with traceability and track-ability measures when handling food in order to assess risk. In this paper, we identify several requir...

Abstract Computerising building regulations to allow reasoning is one of the main challenges in automated compliance checking built environment. While there has been a long history translating manually, recent years, natural language processing (NLP) used support or automate this task. rule- and ontology-based information extraction transformation approaches have achieved accurate translations ...