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Code compliance refers to the adherence to established regulations, standards, and codes governing construction, safety, and environmental practices. It ensures that buildings and infrastructure meet legal requirements and safety measures, promoting public health and welfare.
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Code compliance refers to the adherence to established regulations, standards, and codes governing construction, safety, and environmental practices. It ensures that buildings and infrastructure meet legal requirements and safety measures, promoting public health and welfare.

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1. How can formal language expressiveness and complexity impact the modeling of regulatory compliance requirements in business processes?

This research area investigates the capabilities and limitations of compliance rule languages for accurately and efficiently representing regulatory requirements in business process models. It addresses the challenge of capturing complex, multi-perspective compliance constraints—including control flow, data, temporal, and resource aspects—in formal notations that can support automation of compliance verification and detection of violations. Understanding expressiveness and complexity balances is crucial for selecting or designing languages that both faithfully model regulations and remain usable by compliance experts.

Evaluation of Compliance Rule Languages for Modelling Regulatory Compliance Requirements
by Mustafa Hashmi

2023, Software

Key finding: This study provides a systematic comparative evaluation of multiple compliance rule languages by encoding a set of financial-services process compliance requirements involving control flow, data, temporal, and resource... Read more
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Compliance checking on first-order knowledge with conflicting and compensatory norms: a comparison among currently available technologies
by Maria Concetta Morelli

2024, Artificial Intelligence and Law

Key finding: This work extends compliance checking from propositional to first-order logic to support reasoning about compliance over sets of individuals and explores compensatory and conflicting norms formalization in several publicly... Read more
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Modelling and accessing regulatory knowledge for computer-assisted compliance audit
by Johannes Dimyadi

2021

Key finding: This research investigates open standard technologies (LegalRuleML and semantic web rule languages) for formalizing and accessing regulatory knowledge needed for building compliance auditing. It highlights challenges such as... Read more
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2. What technological approaches enable effective automated building code compliance checking in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry?

This theme focuses on methodologies, toolchains, and data models developed to automate building code compliance checking, aiming at improving accuracy, speed, and transparency over traditional manual processes. Research here explores integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) with formal rule representations, leveraging interoperability standards such as Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and regulatory modeling languages, and developing reusable, maintainable frameworks to support complex, performance-based codes. This theme is vital for enhancing regulatory enforcement and boosting productivity in construction.

Automated Building Code Compliance Checking - Where is it at?
by Robert Amor

2015

Key finding: This comprehensive survey documents four decades of automated code checking research, noting slow industry adoption due to fragmented stakeholders and interoperability challenges. It emphasizes the importance of BIM and IFC... Read more
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Regulatory Knowledge Encoding Guidelines for Automated Compliance Audit of Building Engineering Design
by Charles Clifton

2021

Key finding: The study proposes a dual regulatory knowledge representation strategy for automated compliance audit: modeling compliant design procedures separately as BPMN business process diagrams and encoding associated constraints and... Read more
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Automated compliance checking using building information models
by David Greenwood

2023

Key finding: This research advances a method of embedding domain-specific regulatory extensions directly within IFC-based Building Information Models to support automated compliance checking against England and Wales building regulations.... Read more
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Object-centred automated compliance checking: a novel, bottom-up approach
by David Greenwood

2025, Journal of Information Technology in Construction

Key finding: This paper introduces a bottom-up, object-centered automated compliance checking methodology that leverages BIM's inherent object-oriented data structure and emerging standards for construction object attributes. Adapting... Read more
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3. What are the foundational ethical and professional principles influencing software code compliance and quality assurance in engineering practice?

This theme examines how ethical standards, professional codes of conduct, and quality assessment frameworks shape the practice of software engineering, particularly regarding compliance with codes, standards, and quality assurance protocols. It also explores the competencies required for effective code review and the implications of applying quality models like ISO/IEC 9126 to guarantee system reliability and safety. Understanding these principles is fundamental to cultivating integrity, public trust, and continuous professional development within software and engineering disciplines.

Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice according to ACM / IEEE-CS Joint Task Force on Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Practices
by Zeeshan Asghar

2017

Key finding: This foundational document codifies eight principles emphasizing public interest, integrity, high professional standards, fairness, and lifelong learning for software engineers. It elucidates the ethical responsibilities that... Read more
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The Public is the Priority: Making Decisions Using the Software Engineering Code of Ethics
by Keith W Miller and 
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Don Gotterbarn

2015

Key finding: This paper demonstrates the practical application of the Software Engineering Code of Ethics as a decision-support tool in real ethical dilemmas, showing how adherence to the Code leads to outcomes beneficial to the public,... Read more
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CODE QUALITY EVALUATION METHODOLOGY USING THE ISO/IEC 9126 STANDARD
by International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA)-ERA Indexed and 
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Nikos Tsirakis

2018

Key finding: This study develops a methodology for quantifying software source code quality based on ISO/IEC 9126 standard characteristics (functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability, portability) using static... Read more
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Competencies for Code Review
by Pavlína Wurzel Gonçalves

2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Key finding: Through expert validation and developer surveying, the authors identify and rank 27 competencies essential to effective code review, spanning technical, social, and personal skill clusters. Findings reveal that while... Read more
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    A Guideline to utilize auto code checking capabilities of BIM Applications simultaneously in the design cycle of Building construction
    by Shaikh H Rahman
    Automatic building code check using building information modelling is an emerging field of study. BIM has progressive implications in the building design and construction industry. Building design and construction industry is in the... more
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    Figure 2.2 The logical basis of integrated design process ( Courtesy Larsson/ iiSBE). BIM process is integrative and collaborative that increases accuracy and efficiency in design with optimized design quality, aesthetics, constructability, affordability, timeliness and seamless flow into lifecycle management while traditional process is more linear (Azhar, et al. 2012). This notion of BIM resonates with IDP (Integrative design process). Mcdonald & Persram (2011) credited IDP with helping buildings to achieve high performance and significant reduction of cost and disruption by maximum integration at the beginning. significant reduction of cost and disruption by maximum integration at the beginning.
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    Figure 2.11 A framework of DesignCheck system (Courtesy DesignCheck)
    Eastman et al (2011) presented auto code checking process that mostly deals with post facto application of rules. A cyclic code check evaluation applied during and supporting design development might be utilized to check every design move and would allow immediate identification of the action violating a rule to facilitate corrections. If the corrections are not made when an error first occurs, then this association of the design action and the rule violations should be saved for later management for correction to a design. development might be utilized to check every design move and would allow immediate
    Figure 3.3 Applied research method. However, a reviewed research method was proposed after initial research findings in the iterature which indicated auto code checking capabilities of information modelling applications are gradually progressing. T practical utilization of auto code checking capabilities in real code compliance check using building information modelling skil design and construction industry are expected to be significantly collect quantitative data from users of auto building code com building information modelling is at a developing stage. Industry initiatives and academic researches exploring the possible suitable frameworks to implement auto code checking capabilities in Building here are examples of projects to prove the functional capacity of proposed auto code checking framework. Available auto building s with in the building marginal. A survey to pliance check utilizing building information modelling to determine a suitable time span of wrenching out maximum benefit has been abandoned for future exploration.
    Figure 4.1 Example of BASIX Certificate (Courtesy BASIX) Xiangyang Tan, Amin Hammad and Paul Fazio (2010) demonstrated building envelop can be checked automatically using building information modelling applications. The discussior remains within the limit of ‘hygro-thermal’ performance of building envelop. The steady F value of a wall/roof,steady vapor permeability, the occurrence of condensation within < building envelope, and condensation rate were obtained using steady-state calculation Autodesk BIM software Ecotech (2011) can perform a comprehensive sustainability analysis on building envelop. Whole building energy analysis: to calculate total energy use and carbon emissions of building model, thermal performance: to calculate heating anc cooling loads of models and analyse effects of occupancy, internal gains, infiltration anc equipment, water usage and cost evaluation: to estimate water use inside and outside o1 the building, solar radiation: to visualize incident solar radiation on windows and surfaces daylighting: to calculate daylight factors and illuminance levels at any point in the model shadows and reflections: to display the sun’s position and path relative to the model at any date, time and location are stated capabilities on Ecotech broachers. These environmenta building envelope, and condensation rate were obtained using steady-state calculation.
    Figure 4.2 Example of Ecotect Solar radiation analysis. ( Courtesy Ecotect)
    Figure 4.4 Example of Ecotect indoor Light analysis. (Courtesy Ecotect)
    Figure 4.6 Example of Solibri space analyses. (Courtesy Solibri)
    Figure 4.7 Example of Solibri Escape route analyses. (Courtesy Solibri)
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    Overview of rule checking systems. ‘ SMC supports computation of additional geometry, such as door swing arcs, wheel chair turning circles, that can be used in checking nules, Table 1
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