A Design for Safety (DFS) Framework for Automated Inspection Risks in Metro Stations by Integrating a Knowledge Base and Building Information Modeling

Ping Liu, Yongtao Shang and Lei Zhang ()
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Ping Liu: School of Civil Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, China
Yongtao Shang: School of Civil Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, China
Lei Zhang: Smart City Research Center, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210096, China

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 6, 1-19

Abstract: Safety issues have always been of great concern to the metro construction industry. Numerous studies have shown that safety issues are closely related to the design phase. Many safety problems can be solved or improved by developing the design. This study proposes a structured identification method for safety risks based on the metro design specifications, journal literature, and expert experience. A safety knowledge base (KB) for the design was established to realize safety knowledge sharing and reusing. The KB has been developed into Building Information Modeling (BIM) software as an inspection plug-in to achieve automated analysis and retrieval of safety risks. The designers are provided with a visualization of risk components to locate and improve the pre-control measures of the design. Subsequently, the process of design for safety (DFS) database creation was demonstrated with a metro station project, and the feasibility of applying the KB to safety checking in BIM was verified. In response to the inspection results, safety risks in the construction phases can be eliminated or avoided by standardizing and improving the design.

Keywords: metro stations; design for safety; knowledge base; risk inspection plug-in; building information modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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