# Presentation: 817226

## Enhancing Implementation and Application of Building Regulations

**The Journey to 20??**
**DOE National Energy Codes Workshop**
**August 2, 2006**
**Rebecca Baker**
**Jefferson County, Colorado**

## Objective 

- 	**Spur creativity and collaboration that can lead to defining, developing and implementing cooperative programs related to building regulations in support of **

## Expected Outcome 

- 	** ****A vision of determining building regulatory compliance in the future **

***Thought***
***Discussion***
***Shared Vision***
***Cooperation***
***Collaboration***

***Cost Savings***
***Uniformity***
***Increased Productivity***
***Enhanced building safety***
***More timely approval***
***Robust building records***

## Assessing Building Regulatory Compliance Today

**Identify requirements (code search) – by hand through codes, standards, etc. with some word search and issue-specific automated searches of codes**
**Prepare plans and specifications – by hand or with CADD, word processing, various software applications, etc.**
**Submit plans and specifications – by hand in hard copy with some movement towards electronic submittal of electronic documents**
**Conduct building regulatory review – by hand with availability of some issue-specific software such as ComCheck **
**Revise plans and specifications (pre-construction) – by hand or in electronic files**
**Secure plan approval – face-to-face with some movement           towards electronic notification**

## Assessing Building Regulatory Compliance Today

**Revise plans and specifications (during construction) – by hand or in electronic files**
**Inspections and construction review – in the field using paper checklists and forms with movement toward electronic data entry and retention**
**Commissioning and final inspection – in the field using paper checklists and forms with movement toward electronic data entry and retention **
**Issue CO – by hand or in electronic form**
**Ongoing permitting, inspection, review, etc. – in the field using paper checklists and forms with movement             toward electronic data entry and retention**

## Assessing Building Regulatory Compliance Today - Summary

**Predominately by hand **
**Predominately face-to-face**
**Assistance from various software and electronic media using human data entry**
**Increasing ability to take data from one application and feed it directly into another software application**
**Significant movement towards electronic data storage, revision, application and presentation**
***Do all data suppliers provide information in a format that will allow any and all users to apply, adjust, update and add to the available data applicable to a building******?***

## buildingSMART 

- 	....*the dynamic and seamless exchange of accurate, useful information on the built environment among all members of the building community throughout the lifecycle of a facility*
*	**...**.a smarter process for managing             the project lifecycle *

## InteroperabilityThe sharing and exchanging of information via integrated technological solutions  

**Interoperability is focused on software application and communication such that data can be shared by all and       used by all throughout multiple applications**
**A Building Information Model (BIM) is a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a building (data) – a shared knowledge source for information about a facility**** **

## InteroperabilityThe sharing and exchanging of information via integrated technological solutions  

**	****Software, computers and information technology have changed how we communicate, interact, do our work and conduct business**

## InteroperabilityThe sharing and exchanging of information via integrated technological solutions  

**	****Codes represent one small piece of technical content associated with a building that need to be “interoperable”**
**	****Other content includes standards, evaluation reports, specifications, design drawings, manufacturers data, scheduling information, O&M information, etc.**

## Vision 

**Fully automated and integrated building regulatory processes from project inception to demolition that are founded on the application and use of all  building-related data, including building regulations, that is “interoperable”**
**A Building Information Model (BIM) is created, developed, and updated and enhanced over time for every building and includes building safety-related considerations**

## Future Vision – Seamless Transparent Instantaneous and Continuous Regulatory Evaluation for Compliance

**All building-related data will be easily shared and accessed**
**Not Word/pdf but XML**
**Not DWG/DGN but IFC**
**Common dictionaries **
**The designer will construct the initial BIM**
**The BIM will be automatically evaluated and assessed against specific criteria including building construction regulations**

## Future Vision – Seamless Transparent Instantaneous and Continuous Regulatory Evaluation for Compliance

**The designer will be notified of results and as warranted and adjust the BIM**
**The BIM is submitted to regulatory authorities for automatic building regulatory compliance checking and plan approval**
**A permit to construct is issued and an inspection check list is created from the BIM**

## Future Vision – Seamless Transparent Instantaneous and Continuous Regulatory Evaluation for Compliance

**Field inspection results are collected and placed in the BIM**
**A CO is issued and the BIM updated based on the final CO**
**The BIM remains open, available and updated for O&M and renovations over time and access by users who need to know the current state of the building**

## Future Vision – Seamless Transparent Instantaneous and Continuous Regulatory Evaluation for Compliance

***Data Pool***

***BIM***

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***Collect and present relevant data***

***Compliance ***
***checklist***

***3D or 4D ***
***model***

***Update ***
***BIM***

***BIM***

***Update ***
***BIM***

***Data from ***
***all sources***

## Assessing Building Regulatory Compliance – Transition to Tomorrow

**Identify requirements (code search) – from manual to automatic based on user input to questions about the building and its systems or directly via submission of a building information model (BIM)**
**Prepare plans and specifications – from ink on paper to CADD, electronic OMNIClass, etc. **
**Submit plans and specifications and conduct building regulatory review – from ink on paper to submission in electronic format or a BIM with automated code checking and 3D and 4D visualization of non-compliance**
**Revise plans and specifications (pre-construction) – revise electronic format or BIM**

## Assessing Building Regulatory Compliance – Transition to Tomorrow

**Secure plan approval – final electronic format or BIM submittal for automated plan review and assessment**
**Revise plans and specifications (during construction) – revise electronic format records or BIM to maintain consistency with as-built situation**
**Inspections – from manual generation of inspection checklists to automatic real-time generation of inspection checklists**
**Construction review – from limited access to information to  availability in the field of any information related to items being                            inspected in addition to updating of BIM                              from the field**

## Assessing Building Regulatory Compliance – Transition to Tomorrow

**Document commissioning and final construction – from manual on paper to manual within the BIM format**
**Issue CO**
**Ongoing permitting, inspection, review, etc. – from manual on paper to manual within the BIM format**

## Tomorrow exists in Singapore

**Tomorrow exists in Singapore**
**Designers can pre-check for compliance before actual submittal and if warranted ask for variances on areas of non-compliance as part of the submission**

## Slide 20

## One can map between the BIM and code issues related to energy and an energy simulation tool for the purpose of performance based code checking

**One can map between the BIM and code issues related to energy and an energy simulation tool for the purpose of performance based code checking**

## Drivers Making this Happen

**Federal agencies such as GSA, NASA, DOS and DoD**
**State and local government**
**University and research**
**Software and hardware developers**
**Professional organizations**
**Trade groups**

## Making the Vision a Reality – ICC Short Term Steps

**Demonstration of automated code check and plan review for IECC provisions for commercial buildings and for the issue of fire barriers across all the ICC Codes – November 2006**
**Development of “interoperable” content based on the ICC Codes – underway **
**Development of user “storefront” screens that facilitate user interaction with the content manually or automatically via a BIM – September 2006**
**Development of approaches to capture and package the content into usable formats – September 2006**
**Plan review and inspection checklist**
**Code search and compilation of criteria**
**Integration of results with 3D and 4D building modeling**

## Making the Vision a Reality – ICC Short Term Steps

**Establishment of a Federal, state and local government agency task group to guide project development and ensure satisfaction of agency needs – first meeting July 2006**
**Establishment of an industry task group to guide project development and ensure the needs of data developers and users are addressed – Fall 2006**
**Capture of relevant standards, evaluation reports, listing directories, manufacturers data, etc. related to IECC in demo - underway**

## Making the Vision a Reality – ICC Long Term Steps

**Gradual enhancement of content from IECC and fire barrier provisions to all ICC codes – 2007**
**Inclusion of relevant standards, evaluation reports, listing directories, manufacturer’s data, etc. – beginning 2007**
**Development of Federal, state and local content files that address revisions and additions to adopted codes – beginning 2007**
**Development and deployment of robust storefronts and content packaging and presentation formats to facilitate automated plan review – beginning 2007**

## Future Vision – Seamless Transparent Instantaneous and Continuous Regulatory Evaluation for Compliance

***Data Pool***

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***Collect and present relevant data***

**Can we fill the pool with relevant content in the appropriate format?**
**Can the storefronts be constructed to allow manual or automatic ID of project-relevant content?**
**Can the project-relevant content be packaged and applied in ways to enhance the building regulatory process?**

**YES**

## Questions ???

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