CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME & PRODUCTION CONTROL (CPPC) ONTOLOGY

Abstract

With ongoing development of construction digital twins, several works presented in the last couple of years are taking the same approach, solutions, steps, and findings of Building Information Modelling (BIM). This piece of work is questioning if that is enough or we could be misinformed by the BIM’s survivorship bias of what information should be collected, integrated, and visualized in construction sites. This research is a part of ongoing research project exploring the application of construction digital twins through production control rooms. In this research, an ontology related to construction programme and production control (CPPC) is proposed. The proposed ontology is shared representation that specify the terms and relations of production control in construction. The development is based on a real case study in the U.K and it is mapped to existing ontologies such as BOT, DiCon and Prov. The developed ontology was evaluated by automatic consistency checking, evaluating the SPARQL queries against the competency questions and representing the outputs to stakeholders of the selected construction project. The results show that the ontology represents the domain knowledge and demonstrates its’ efficiency to enhance the production control of construction sites.