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Abdul-Aziz, A-R and Tan, A C N (1998) GATT, GATS and the global construction industry. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 5(01), 31–7.
Akintoye, A, Taylor, C and Fitzgerald, E (1998) Risk analysis and management of Private Finance Initiative projects. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 5(01), 9–21.
Chau, K W (1998) The implications of the difference in the growth rates of the prices of building resources and outputs in Hong Kong. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 5(01), 38–50.
Duffield, C (1998) Commercial viability of privately financed heating systems in Europe: a case study. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 5(01), 3–8.
Evans, R C and Kaka, A P (1998) Analysis of the accuracy of standard/average value curves using food retail building projects as case studies. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 5(01), 58–67.
Gowri, K and Depanni, S (1998) The Health and Safety Expert System (HASES): an expert system framework for building inspections. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 5(01), 92–102.
- Type: Journal Article
- Keywords: building code; building inspection; expert system; knowledge representation
- ISBN/ISSN: 0969-9988
- URL: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1365-232X.1998.00010.x/abs
- Abstract:
In order to ensure the health and safety of occupants, buildings must be inspected to cheek their compliance to current regulatory requirements prompted by occupancy changes, renovations and building code revisions. Recent inspections conducted by Public Works Canada have identified about 1700 occurrences of code violations in 19 buildings. There is an enormous amount of information that can be extracted from the study mentioned above to implement a knowledge-based expert system to assist in future building inspections. The philosophy of this expert system is to integrate both knowledge-based and hypertext representation techniques to enable building inspectors to quickly identify code violations, refer to the code text and provide case study information that can assist in resolving a problem. The present paper describes the development framework and details of a prototype implementation known as the Health and Safety Expert System (HASES). The HASES currently addresses the requirements of 'Section 3.4: Requirements for Exits' of the 1990 National Building Code of Canada. The software architecture consists of an external database of building details, an object hierarchy and a rule-base representing the code requirements, hypertext user-interface for code text and case study information. The ultimate objective is to make this system available for field inspections using notepad computers.
Laufer, A, Shapira, A and Goren, I (1998) Implementing an integrative approach to project schedule compression. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 5(01), 82–91.
Ogunlana, S O and Chang, W P (1998) Worker motivation on selected construction sites in Bangkok, Thailand. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 5(01), 68–81.
Saunders, A (1998) Aspects of funding for BOOT projects. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 5(01), 22–30.
Walker, D H T (1998) The contribution of the client representative to the creation and maintenance of good project inter-team relationships. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 5(01), 51–67.