„Ontologie zur baubegleitenden Qualitätssicherung“
S. Seiß, J. Lünig (TU Braunschweig), J. Melzner
BAUINGENIEUR BD. 00 (2025) NR. 6
DOI: 10.37544/0005-6650-2025-06-39

Key messages:

• Defective construction work causes considerable costs and potential for conflict. Early and systematic inspection planning can minimize errors in execution.
• Current inspection planning processes are manual, time-consuming and heavily experience-based. There is no formalized knowledge base for project and company-specific requirements.
• We present the Ontology for Construction Quality Assurance (OCQA) - a modular, semantic model to support inspection planners and inspectors with relevant knowledge and information.
• The OCQA integrates standards (e.g. DIN 55350, ISO 9000/9001), contractual specifications, construction-specific data and proven ontologies such as DiCon, ifcOWL and BOT.
• Evaluated using a drywall case study, OCQA demonstrates its capabilities in a prototype expert system that combines data integration, inference and visualization (BIM viewer, schedule)

Open Access: The complete article is available online free of charge at https://doi.org/10.37544/0005-6650-2025-06-39

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