Towards a unifying domain model of construction safety, health and well-being:: SafeConDM

Beidi Li; Carl Schultz; Jochen Teizer; Olga Golovina; Jürgen Melzner

doi:10.1016/j.aei.2021.101487

Towards a unifying domain model of construction safety, health and well-being: SafeConDM

Beidi Li, Carl Schultz, Jochen Teizer^*, Olga Golovina, Jürgen Melzner

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Software Engineering & Computing systems
Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering - Design and Construction

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Abstract

Specific occupational construction safety, health, and well-being related knowledge and information are scattered and fragmented. Despite technological advancements of information and knowledge management, a link between safety management and information models is still missing. In this paper we present first steps towards a unifying formal (logic-based) domain model of construction safety, called SafeConDM, that consists of: (1) a semantically rich ontology of hazard, safety concepts, and concept relationships that builds on, and integrates with, existing construction safety ontologies and building information models; (2) a set of first-order if-then rules linking construction site states with the potential for specific hazards to occur that we define in a novel way using spatial artefacts. We present a prototype software tool, based on our ASP4BIM tool that implements SafeConDM for construction hazard analysis and safe construction planning decision support, and empirically evaluate our tool on three real-world construction building models.

Original language	English
Article number	101487
Journal	Advanced Engineering Informatics
Volume	51
Number of pages	23
ISSN	1474-0346
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2021.101487
Publication status	Published - Jan 2022

Keywords

Building information modelling
Fall hazards
Logic programming
Occupational health and safety
Rule checking

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