Logic-Based Inference for Automated compliance checking on indoor accessibility requirements

Abstract

Compliance checking for building designs based on Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements is mandatory to support accessibility. However, it is now mainly conducted manually and thus time-consuming and labour-intensive. Research has developed methods to support automated compliance checking (ACC) for building codes in separate phases. However, few of the existing work explored accessibility requirements. Moreover, they focused on individual phases without integrating them together to achieve ACC. In this research, we proposed a framework to achieve ACC for one requirement in ADA regarding accessible 180-degree turns. The framework first finds a path between any two elements in Building Information Modelling (BIM); after that it identifies if there are any 180-degree turns; and lastly the compliance checking outcome for the turn will be determined. In our experiment with 96 cases, the algorithm successfully identifies 180-degree turns and outputs compliance checking outcomes.

Keywords: automated compliance checking, accessibility, logic reference

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1006835