Development of Quality Control Requirements for Improving the Quality of Architectural Design Based on BIM

Building information modeling (BIM) technology has been utilized increasingly in quantitative ways in the architecture, engineering, and construction disciplines. However, owing to increasing requirements for improvement in qualitative factors in BIM-based design projects, it has become necessary to develop a checking and evaluation process for BIM-based architectural design. The purpose of this study is to develop and apply BIM-based quality control requirements for improving the quality of architectural design. To achieve this, the research investigated case studies for BIM data quality control and classified quality control targets according to physical/logical quality and data quality. The quality check criteria and checklists are developed through the reconfiguration of deduced quality control targets by requirement. The research developed a rule-based quality checking system using requirements for efficient quality control based on BIM.