Development of IFC based fire safety assesment tools

Due to the impact that the fire safety design has on the building's layout and on other complementary systems, as installations, it is important during the conceptual design stage to evaluate continuously the safety level in the building. In case that the task is carried out too late, additional changes need to be implemented, involving supplementary work and costs with negative impact on the client.

The aim of this project is to create a set of automatic compliance checking rules for prescriptive design and to develop a web application tool for performance based design that retrieves data from Building Information Models (BIM) to evacuate the safety level in the building during the conceptual design stage.

The findings show that the developed tools can be useful in AEC industry. Integrating BIM from conceptual design stage for analyzing the fire safety level can ensure precision in further design decisions