Pieter Pauwels

TL;DR: This paper looks into existing efforts in obtaining an ifcOWL ontology from the EXPRESS schemas of IFC and analyses which features would be required in a usable and recommendable ifcowL ontologies.

TL;DR: Results show that semantic web technologies have a key role to play in logic-based applications and applications that require information from multiple application areas and devising beneficial implementation approaches that rely on appropriate combinations of declarative and procedural programming techniques, semantic and legacy data formats, user input, and automated procedures.

TL;DR: A concrete implementation approach is presented for a semantic rule checking environment for building design and construction, and an implemented test case for acoustic performance checking illustrates the improvements of such an environment compared to traditionally deployed approaches in rule checking.

TL;DR: A semantic web based approach to the performance gap problem is presented, describing how heterogeneous building data sources can be transformed into semantically enriched information.

TL;DR: The Building Topology Ontology (BOT) is introduced as a core vocabulary to the BIM Maturity Level 3 approach and provides a high-level description of the topology of buildings including storeys and spaces, the building elements they contain, and their web-friendly 3D models.