Text mining (TM) and natural language processing (NLP) have stirred interest within the
construction field, as they offer enhanced capabilities for managing and analyzing text …

Field compliance checking aims to check the compliance of site operations with applicable
construction safety regulations for detecting violations. Relation extraction provides an …

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 …

One of the main challenges of automated compliance checking systems is aligning the
semantics of the building information models (BIMs), in Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) …

Construction safety regulations and standards contain a massive number of fall protection
requirements with respect to different equipment, facilities, and operations. Automated field …

Construction projects are capital-intensive and risk-prone, which can lead to serious claims
and disputes. Thus, early identification and intervention of potential risks in contracts play …

Many existing automated compliance checking (ACC) systems require the processes of
extracting regulatory information from natural-language building-code requirements and …

As a vital stage of automated rule checking (ARC), rule interpretation of regulatory texts
requires considerable effort. However, interpreting regulatory clauses with implicit properties …

Abstract In Building Information Modeling (BIM)-based domain-specific applications,
elements should be classified into fine-grained sub-categories concerning their graphical …

The explicit safety knowledge contained in regulations in the form of texts and tables is
crucial for construction safety management. However, the presence of rich semantic content …