Querying a building information model for construction-specific spatial information

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 904-923

  Nepal, Madhav Prasad ^a   Staub French, Sheryl ^a   Pottinger, Rachel ^a   Webster, April ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

BIM; Construction; Design features; GML; Knowledge extraction; Spatial queries

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION; EXTRACTION; INFORMATION THEORY; QUERY PROCESSING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL - BIM; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; DESIGN FEATURES; KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION; LARGE-SCALE PROJECTS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL QUERIES;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84867895946     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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