Extended Information Delivery Specifications (IDS) dataset for the digital building permit process

Description

The published data is research data from the publication "Extending Information Delivery Specifications for digital building permit requirements" (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dibe.2024.100560). This publication examines the potential for extending the Information Delivery Specification (IDS) schema to facilitate its integration into the building permit process.
IDS is an open specification based on XML for defining and verifying information requirements for digital building models in the IFC format (open format for BIM models).
The presents concepts for extending IDS to define information requirements for escape route analysis and code compliance checks for Austrian fire resistance regulations.

This dataset contains the results of the mentioned publication. This includes the edited IDS schema (XML Schema Definition - XSD), the created IDS files, and BCF files (BIM Collaboration Format) used for the validation. The IDS files were used as input for a self-developed IDS software to check two IFC test models. The two test models are published in related datasets:
Custom test model for escape route analysis in IFC format: https://doi.org/10.48436/hx8gz-zw339
Real-world test model for escape route analysis in IFC format: https://doi.org/10.48436/fnmrh-crh59
The checking results were saved in the BCF files. Therefore, the checking results can be visualised by applying the published BCF files to the corresponding IFC models.

Technical details

The dataset contains three folders, one for each of the three data types: 

• XSD-file: contains the adapted XML schema definition (XSD) for IDS. The basis for the adaption was version 1.0
• IDS-files: contains IDS files for three different purposes:
  • Information-Requirements-EscapeRouteAnalysis.ids contains targeted information requirements for an IFC model to ensure the required data to perform an escape route analysis is possible.
  • Code-Compliance-Checking-OIB2-Tab1b contains code compliance checks for the fire resistance regulations defined in the Austrian OIB guideline 2 in Table 1b.
  • Code-Compliance-Checking-OIB2-Tab2a contains code compliance checks for the fire resistance regulations defined in the Austrian OIB guideline 2 in Table 2a.
• BCF-files: contains all BCF files (version 2.1) created in this research. The folder is structured in two subfolders. Each subfolder contains 6 BCF files, which are differentiated by the used IDS file and test model:
  • Applicable-elements: contains BCF files listing the applicable elements for each IDS specification
  • Checking-reports: contains BCF files listing the failed elements for each IDS specification. These are classic checking reports.

Further details

• The IDS files correspond to the adapted schema. Therefore, commercial IDS software cannot process these files. Their purpose is to show how the schema extension affects the structure of IDS files.
• The BCF files use a standard BCF version and can be imported into commercial BIM software. The combination with the cited test models allows to visualise the checking results.