Presentation at the 2016 BabelNet Workshop on 2 March 2016 IN Luxembourg (http://babelnet.org/lux): "Making sense of building data and building product data". Together with Thomas Krijnen (TUEindhoven) and Jakob Beetz (TUEindhoven). The paper is available at http://babelnet.org/lux/index.html#program_section.

1. Making sense of building data
and building product data
Pieter Pauwels
Ghent University, Belgium
Thomas Krijnen, Jakob Beetz
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

2. What is BIM?

5. Hannus, M. (1998) Islands of automation in construction http://cic.vtt.fi/hannus/islands/index.html

6. Making sense of building data
and building product data
Pieter Pauwels
Ghent University, Belgium
Thomas Krijnen, Jakob Beetz
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

7. A common language

8. INDUSTRY FOUNDATION CLASSES (IFC)
HTTP://WWW.BUILDINGSMART-TECH.ORG/

9. Pauwels et al., 2011. A semantic rule checking environment for building performance checking.
Automation in Construction 20 (2011) 506–518
Directed labelled RDF graphs

10. Pieter Pauwels and Walter Terkaj, EXPRESS to OWL for construction industry: towards a recommendable and
usable ifcOWL ontology. Automation in Construction 63: 100-133 (2016).

11. ifcOWL ontologies available
Ifc2x_all_lf.exp
IFC2X2_ADD1.exp
IFC2X2_FINAL.exp
IFC2X2_PLATFORM.exp
IFC2X3_Final.exp
IFC2X3_TC1.exp
IFC4.exp
IFC4_ADD1.exp
not supported
not supported
not supported
not supported
IFC2X3_Final.owl / .ttl
IFC2X3_TC1.owl / .ttl
IFC4.owl / .ttl
IFC4_ADD1.owl / .ttl
https://w3id.org/ifc/IFC4_ADD1
http://w3id.org/ifc/IFC4
http://w3id.org/ifc/IFC2X3_Final
http://w3id.org/ifc/IFC2X3_TC1

12. Axioms 21306
Logical Axioms 13649
Classes 1230
Object properties 1578
Data properties 5
Individuals 1627
DL expressivity SROIQ(D)
SubClassOf axioms 4622
EquivalentClasses axioms 266
DisjointClasses axioms 2429
SubObjectPropertyOf axioms 1
InverseObjectProperties axioms 94
FunctionalObjectProperty axioms 1441
TransitiveObjectProperty axioms 1
ObjectPropertyDomain axioms 1577
ObjectPropertyRange axioms 1576
FunctionalDataProperty axioms 5
DataPropertyDomain axioms 5
DataPropertyRange axioms 5
Pieter Pauwels and Walter Terkaj, EXPRESS to OWL for construction industry: towards a recommendable and
usable ifcOWL ontology. Automation in Construction 63: 100-133 (2016).

13. 14
Including a RESTful web interface
Public demo server: http://smartlab1.elis.ugent.be:8889/IFC-repo/

14. Number of Building Models: 369
Public demo server: http://smartlab1.elis.ugent.be:8889/IFC-repo/
P. Pauwels, T. Mendes de Farias, C. Zhang, et al. A performance benchmark over semantic rule-checking
approaches in construction industry. Advanced Engineering Informatics (2016, under review).

15. Number of Building Models: 369
Public demo server: http://smartlab1.elis.ugent.be:8889/IFC-repo/
P. Pauwels, T. Mendes de Farias, C. Zhang, et al. A performance benchmark over semantic rule-checking
approaches in construction industry. Advanced Engineering Informatics (2016, under review).

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Image courtesy: Jakob Beetz, TU Eindhoven

17. ADDED VALUE IN COMBINATION WITH DATA
DICTIONARIES

18. http://bsdd.buildingsmart.org/

19. Slide adapted from slide 14 in Roger Grant’s buildingSMART presentation (2013):
http://projects.buildingsmartalliance.org/files/?artifact_id=5148

20. Slide adapted from slide 14 in Roger Grant’s buildingSMART presentation (2013):
http://projects.buildingsmartalliance.org/files/?artifact_id=5148

21. http://bsdd.buildingsmart.org/

22. Sample bSDD Concept
‘Calcium Silicate Board’
<bsdd:3MyXi0NvmHt00000PR1IRl>
a owl:Class ;
rdfs:comment "Bygningsplate basert p kalsiumsilikat (sement, kisel og kalk), med armering
av cellulosefiber. Platene fremstilles ved autoklavherding. Benyttes innendrs i miljer hvor det
stilles krav til fuktbestandighet og brannbeskyttelse."@nb-no ;
rdfs:comment "Building board based on calcium silicate (cement, silica and mortar), with
reinforcement of cellulose filament. The boards being produced by autoclave curing. Being
used in environments with demands to moisture resistance and fire protection."@en ;
rdfs:label "Calcium silicate board"@en, rdfs:label "Kalsiumsilikatplate"@nb-no ;
:conceptType "SUBJECT" ;
:guid "3MyXi0NvmHt00000PR1IRl" ;
:status "DRAFT" ;
:versionDate "2007.09.10" ;
:versionId "1 2007.09.10" .
http://bw-dssv16.bwk.tue.nl:8080/openrdf-workbench/repositories/bsdd/summary
Triple count: 986161

23. TO CONCLUDE

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Image courtesy: Jakob Beetz, TU Eindhoven

25. Mapping between concepts
in diverse dictionaries
http://bw-dssv19.bwk.tue.nl/interlink/

26. Content management and dissemination strategy?

27. Thank you
Pieter Pauwels
pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be
Thomas Krijnen
t.f.krijnen@tue.nl
Jakob Beetz
j.beetz@tue.nl