Development of BIM-based evacuation regulation checking system for high-rise and complex buildings

•We suggest a BIM-based evacuation regulation checking process and scenarios.•We develop and verify a prototypical evacuation regulation checking system.•Architects and owners are able to evaluate and improve design quality using system.•Checking system can reduce errors, time and inefficient use of human resources.•BIM research focus can be changed from quantitative to qualitative.

Recently owing to the increasing requirements for the improvement of qualitative factors of BIM-based design projects, it is necessary to develop an automated checking and evaluation process for the BIM data. Regulation information is an important factor for initial architectural design evaluations. The purpose of this study is to develop an automated system that designers and owners can check the evacuation regulation compliance of BIM data. In this study, the scope of applied regulation information is confined to evacuation regulation, as high-rise and complex building design has high priority and is critical on adequate disaster prevention systems and egress routes. To achieve this purpose, the authors have investigated case studies of BIM-based regulation checking process and illustrated the possible mechanism for the process through evacuation regulation analysis. Based on the presented methodology and scenario of the proposed automated evacuation regulation checking system, the authors developed a prototypical system, called InSightBIM-Evacuation.