Further integration of fire safety is required during the design process to increase the reliability of the fire safety design. However, despite the nature and the complexity of building codes, including fire regulations, they are mostly manually verified, which may lead to subjective interpretations or potential errors. Building Information Modeling (BIM) technologies nowadays offer new approach for automating different tasks in the building process. The research presented in this thesis aims to investigate how to effectively integrate fire safety into the design process using BIM tools through the automated compliance checking.
The work suggests a coherent method that addresses the issues of fire safety globally through the design science. Different approaches and available tools have therefore been compared in the context of compliance with the fire protection code. As a result of the contextualized understanding of the needs, it was possible to build the complete method for iteratively creating verification rules. The issues to be addressed have been identified through the construction of the rules and the validity of the presented approach is verified by application to a real project building model.
A code checking method was proposed for creation of rules for code checking. It was formalized through five steps that cover the entire process by focusing on fire safety aspects in the building with a visual programming tool. The validation phase on the real project has shown that reusable rules can be created if the building model is built according to the requirements. In this context, a Model Attribute Table has been created to define specific information needs for passive protection. The rules implemented in this work cover several geometric and non-geometric requirements. However, there are limitations to complex geometric cases or active protection requiring advanced dimensioning.
| Date | 13 Sept 2019 |
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| Original language | French |
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| Awarding Institution | - École de technologie supérieure
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| Supervisor | Conrad Boton (Supervisor) & Pierre Blanchet (Co-supervisor) |
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Kincelova, K. (Author),
Boton (Supervisor) & Blanchet (Co-supervisor),
13 Sept 2019Student thesis: Master's thesis › Master in Engineering: Construction Engineering