Business-Based Rule Translation for Building Information Modelling-Based Checking

Creating building designs is difficult for the designers, and often mistakes are made that are costly for the building process. The technology BIM-based Model Checking can help the designers identify errors in the design so they can correct them. The key is identifying errors, and with BIM-based Model Checking systems, it is the rules the specify how themes errors are identified, and in that sense, it is how the rules are identified that are the most important. However, there is not an agreed-upon method of translating such rules from, e.g., building codes that they the problematic translation in how the BIM-based Model Checking systems are limited in their adoption in the building design practices. In this study, we investigated practitioners’ experiences with their work supported and unsupported by checking systems. The challenges were related to the translation of rules used in the assessment because they become more explicit and thereby reduce the designer's interpretative flexibility.