An industry group that hopes to automate code compliance checks for 3-D building information models scaled back its proof-of-concept project recently because the process it hoped to measure against—manual 2-D plan review—turned out to be wildly erratic.
AutoCodes project committee member Bill Gould says the group had hoped to establish a baseline by submitting to code officials a 2-D set of 137 plan sheets for a big Target Corp. retail store prototype in 13 jurisdictions around the country. Review was to be limited to access and egress (A&E) compliance, which is governed by relatively objective criteria.