Automated analysis and quantity calculation of balcony elements in IFC

In this paper, we discuss an automated procedure to automatically analyse and extract domain specific construction information from IFC building models. More specifically, we were interested in extracting location potential placement sites for thermal bridges between balconies and their neighbouring floors. For this aim, we developed a web-based...

Interoperability in the networked design infrastructure

Interoperability, the ability of different software applications to communicate with each other, is one of the biggest challenges for efficient and effective use of advanced software technology in structural design and engineering. In practice, the problem of interoperability exists very much for the end-user since agreement on common standards...