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Fire is a common disaster; according to the 2015 fire statistics analysis of the National Fire Agency of Ministry of the Interior, fire incidence is rising year by year, and sound fire safety equipment reviews in the design phase can help reduce fire occurrence and thus, casualties and property losses after fire can be mitigated. However, current fire safety equipment reviews involve many regulations for various fire safety equipment types and there is no standardized reviewing process, making local fire departments use different reviewing processes, reviewers may even neglect review items and inspectors need to perform second reviews upon project completion. Thus, this research first establishes a standardized reviewing process through expert interview and literature review; common reviewing defects in the practice are considered in the process and the integrity and efficacy to the practice is verified by domain experts.
In addition, many review items cannot be identified and evaluated from 2D drawings in fire safety equipment reviews in the design phase. Therefore, through expert interview, the research identifies the limitations of 2D drawings in a traditional reviewing process and common problems which cannot be solved using 2D drawings. Then, Building Information Modeling (BIM) is utilized to address these common problems by using its characteristics of spacial information, building information and quantity take-off functionality. BIM application to fire safety equipment reviews is incorporated in the proposed reviewing process and domain experts verify that the new process can shorten reviewing time, increase reviewing scopes and improve reviewing accuracy. | en_US |