representation facilitates the construction of a web of data, though

Leveraging Linked Data for linking them together. Linked Data is a means to achieve this by
providing paradigms to publish and connect raw data using the Web
Renovation projects model. It aims at structuring information in a format which is
readable by machines so that it is possible to integrate data from
disparate sources in response to a user query.
The main focus of my research is to explore the integration of
Madhumitha Senthilvel disparate information sources (including e.g. point clouds, sensor
data, descriptive data) with digital building models using Linked Data
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jakob Beetz for creating semantically rich BIMs, thus improving information
CAAD| RWTH Aachen representation and retrieval. From literature, some of the identified
gaps in the above domain include such as checking whether the
required information is present in a Building Information Model,
ABSTRACT developing methods for matching and linking vocabularies used by
The rise of Building Information Modelling for information different data sources etc. In this presentation, I will focus on the
management for greenfield projects including buildings and exploratory work done so far in the above directions.
infrastructure has been well established. However, both in research
and practice, the application of BIM and associated
solutions/approaches for projects involving existing buildings and Keywords: BIM, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Ontologies, rule-based
infrastructure is still under-explored. checking, information management,
The problem of information management in the renovation AEC
industry is two-fold: a. unavailability of information, b.
mismanagement of available information. At present, numerous
technologies and methods for data capture are already being
exploited (such as laser scanning, web-based clients for information
recording) to address the former problem. However, the
management of information from these very disparate sources in
order to make sense of the data remains a challenge.
The combination of Semantic Web and Linked Data along with BIM’s
inherent facilitation of digital representation of data and workflows
can help in overcoming some of these challenges. Semantic web is a
vision where computers understand the data they let us users view
on the world wide web. This way of machine-readable information