Structuring and Integrating Smart Building Planning Rules With BIM-based Planning Tools

Modern building automation systems are subject to major challenges. Their architecture becomes increasingly diversified. Recent developments, such as increased digitization and Internet of Things (IoT) enable new implementation and application opportunities. The main modeling method regarding the development and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of buildings is referred to Building Information Modeling (BIM).In this paper, we describe how planning rules sets from existing tools can be split, structured, and integrated with established external BIM-based building planning tools to improve the collaboration between various trades. In our case study, we utilized Autodesk Revit as an example of a BIM-based planning tool that can be used for the proposed integration approach.