Automated Code Compliance for Safety of Masonry Building

Abstract

Safety throughout and after construction is a major responsibility of Governments and indirectly that of the construction company. To follow this responsibility Governments, develop building codes. But compliance assessment of building codes is a time-consuming process and tedious job, being the complexity of codes and further subdivisions and cross-references in the building codes. With the immense technical developments and advancement in Building Information Modelling provision for automation of code compliance checking process and improvement in the potency of the building design process and its execution takes place. The main intention of this paper is to provide a framework of rules for automated compliance checking procedures in the design of a building, keeping into consideration the safety aspect of masonry Buildings with code IS:1905-1987.  Reports generated were checked for their validation and precision.