ABSTRACT
Multiplicity of views and lack of a common ontological understanding of a building and its components among stakeholders involved in the building delivery and operation processes, result in an information gap between the requirements of various tasks and applications and the available building product representations. On the other hand, due to the extent and the dispersion of the available data, extraction of useful information in the right format has become a cumbersome and error-prone process. BAU-Web is an ongoing research effort aimed at exploring the potential of Semantic Web Technologies towards facilitating the utilization of web-based building product data. The present contribution describes the data-related challenges of the AEC (Architecture-Engineering-Construction) domain using the example of a loadbearing wall component, introduces the framework suggested by the BAU-Web project to address these challenges, and reports on the current state of the project.
