Abstract
The Computers and Building Regulations symposium is a
part of a study of the
techniques which
could be applied to the computerization of the national
building code. This
study and the symposium
as well is financed by the Finnish Ministry of
Environment. The symposium,
which took place in
Espoo, during the 27-29th of May l99l, was quite
informal, but the aim of
producing proceedings of
a high quality provided it with a good backbone. Each of
the foreign and some
of the Finnish
participants gave their own presentations, which were
then followed by
questions and discussions.
One of the first goals of the symposium is to get a good
overview of the
current "state of the art" in
this area. Rather than having VTTs researchers travel
around the globe it was
decided that the
leading experts in this field should be invited to
Finland for a workshop. In
addition to serving
Finnish national needs, it was felt that such a workshop
was long overdue, and
that it could serve as
a spring-board for future international co-operation in
this area. A number of
phonecalls to leading
researchers in this field provided an enthusiastic
response, and the workshop
was set up in a rather
short time, only some 4 months.
These proceedings contain all the presentations given at
the workshop, in
addition to two papers
which were submitted by authors ( Taremäki and Mitousch
), who for various
reasons were unable
to participate personally. The presentations have in the
proceedings been
grouped depending on the
subject matter, and the order doesn't always coincide
with the actual
chronological presentation
order at the workshop. This decision was taken in order
to enhance the
readability of the
proceedings.
Several different techniques for the authoring and
delivery of building
regulations as well as for the
integration of compliance checking into computer-aided
design tools have over
the years been
investigated and tried out in prototypes. Most of these
techniques are covered
in this collection of
papers.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Espoo |
Publisher | VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland |
Number of pages | 259 |
ISBN (Print) | 951-38-3955-9 |
Publication status | Published - 1991 |
MoE publication type | C2 Edited books |
Event | Computers and building regulations - Espoo, Finland Duration: 27 May 1991 → 29 May 1991 |
Publication series
Series | VTT Symposium |
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Number | 125 |
ISSN | 0357-9387 |
Keywords
- construction
- regulations
- building codes
- computers
- proceedings
- meetings
- design standards
- CAD
- cooperation
- integration
- prototypes
- design criteria
- expert systems
- product models
- databases
- Espoo
- Finland