A Proposal for Basic Formal Ontology for Knowledge Management in Building Information Modeling Domain

The construction industry produces enormous amounts of information, relying on building information modeling (BIM). However, due to interoperability issues, valuable is not being used properly. Ontology offers a solution this interoperability. A complete knowledge base can be provided by reusing basic formal ontology (BFO). In previous studies, domain was developed without BFO. Domain requires loads effort reuse because too detailed. To increase the rate and establish base, it necessary develop This study has BFO in BIM advance First, unnecessary parts were omitted from existing development process, process simplified, hierarchy created extracting most superclasses model Revit, software BIM. Based that hierarchy, each child class created, completed completing relation class. After completion model, reliability, addition completeness evaluated through query. experts when defining relations between concepts entities. proposed will foundation future developments domain. facilitates researchers enhance make more improve sharing.