Natural language-extracted and BIM-referenced knowledge base for construction quality inspection via augmented reality

IF 11.5 1区工程技术 Q1 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Automation in Construction Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI:10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106500

Han Liu , Donghai Liu , Junjie Chen

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Abstract

Construction quality is of upmost importance for delivering well-performed civil structures. Inspection offers a critical means to ensure construction quality. However, its effective implementation relies on an excess of domain knowledge that usually takes years to accumulate, making inspection expensive and challenging to conduct. This paper introduces a construction quality inspection knowledge base that empowers inspectors with easily accessible and intuitive construction requirement information. Natural language processing (NLP) is applied to automatically extract knowledge from construction documents such as specification and regulatory files. The extracted knowledge is linked to the building information model (BIM) using proposed association methods and semantic similarity matching. The natural language-extracted and BIM-referenced knowledge base (NLBIM-KB) is integrated into an augmented reality (AR) interface, which provides a freehand tool to assist inspectors' decision-making via on-demand construction knowledge extraction.

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基于增强现实的自然语言提取和bim参考知识库

施工质量对于提供性能良好的土建结构至关重要。检验是保证工程质量的重要手段。然而，它的有效实施依赖于通常需要多年积累的过量领域知识，这使得检查昂贵且具有挑战性。本文介绍了一个工程质量检测知识库，使检验人员能够方便、直观地获取工程需求信息。应用自然语言处理（NLP）技术从规范文件、法规文件等建筑文件中自动提取知识。利用提出的关联方法和语义相似度匹配，将提取的知识与建筑信息模型（BIM）相关联。将自然语言提取和bim参考知识库（NLBIM-KB）集成到增强现实（AR）界面中，通过按需提取施工知识，为检查员的决策提供了一个手绘工具。

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Automation in Construction 工程技术-工程：土木

CiteScore

19.20

自引率

16.50%

发文量

563

审稿时长

8.5 months

期刊介绍： Automation in Construction is an international journal that focuses on publishing original research papers related to the use of Information Technologies in various aspects of the construction industry. The journal covers topics such as design, engineering, construction technologies, and the maintenance and management of constructed facilities. The scope of Automation in Construction is extensive and covers all stages of the construction life cycle. This includes initial planning and design, construction of the facility, operation and maintenance, as well as the eventual dismantling and recycling of buildings and engineering structures.