Healthcare infrastructure projects depend on accurate coordination of specialty equipment information across design, construction, installation, and commissioning, yet this information stays fragmented across disconnected sources such as spreadsheets, PDF datasheets, and room data sheets. Reliance on manual verification yields inconsistent handover documentation, weak traceability, and limited visibility of construction readiness. Information Delivery Specification (IDS), a buildingSMART standard, provides a machine-readable means of defining and validating information requirements within IFC exchanges, yet its use in healthcare equipment coordination remains largely unexplored.
The thesis develops and validates a standards-based framework that automates healthcare equipment information requirements through IDS, validates federated IFC exchanges against them, and communicates non-compliance through 3D issue visualization. Exchange Information Requirements for exemplar devices were encoded as an IDS rule set mapped to the IFC 4.0 schema, authored with large-language-model assistance (Claude AI). Pass/fail outcomes were surfaced through an interactive dashboard that turns raw validation reports into an at-a-glance view, strengthening traceability and supporting rapid interpretation.
The main contributions are a reusable IDS rule library for high-risk healthcare equipment, a reproducible IDS-based validation workflow with explicit IFC entity and property-set mapping, and a traceability method linking requirements to model objects and validation evidence, supporting a shift from manual, error-prone checking toward automated, auditable information delivery in healthcare BIM.
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