Hazard ontology and 4D benchmark model for facilitation of automated construction safety requirement analysis

TY - JOUR

T1 - Hazard ontology and 4D benchmark model for facilitation of automated construction safety requirement analysis

AU - Johansen, Karsten W.

AU - Schultz, Carl

AU - Teizer, Jochen

PY - 2023/10

Y1 - 2023/10

N2 - Over the last two decades, numerous approaches have been developed for automating construction safety assessment, that is, prevention through design and planning (PtD/P), that overcome the limitations of a purely manual safety assessment process. Despite this, such automated approaches are yet to be widely adopted in practice. Barriers include a lack of standardization of construction safety concepts within regulatory frameworks and a lack of confidence in automated approaches on the part of practitioners. This work presents a freely available 4D BIM-based benchmark model (3D Building Information Model and 68 schedules) and construction safety ontology covering the two most frequent and severe construction site accidents: falls from height and struck-by falling object hazards. The benchmark model and ontology enable the construction safety community to test and compare the performance of alternative automated approaches. Moreover, they are utilized in our PtD/P tool SafeConAI, and empirical evaluation results show how the safety situation changes among different construction schedules of the same project.

AB - Over the last two decades, numerous approaches have been developed for automating construction safety assessment, that is, prevention through design and planning (PtD/P), that overcome the limitations of a purely manual safety assessment process. Despite this, such automated approaches are yet to be widely adopted in practice. Barriers include a lack of standardization of construction safety concepts within regulatory frameworks and a lack of confidence in automated approaches on the part of practitioners. This work presents a freely available 4D BIM-based benchmark model (3D Building Information Model and 68 schedules) and construction safety ontology covering the two most frequent and severe construction site accidents: falls from height and struck-by falling object hazards. The benchmark model and ontology enable the construction safety community to test and compare the performance of alternative automated approaches. Moreover, they are utilized in our PtD/P tool SafeConAI, and empirical evaluation results show how the safety situation changes among different construction schedules of the same project.

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U2 - 10.1111/mice.12988

DO - 10.1111/mice.12988

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85149397204

SN - 1093-9687

VL - 38

SP - 2128

EP - 2144

JO - Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

JF - Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

IS - 15

ER -