Building fire protection compliance checking is an important part of building safety design process. In order to improve the automation of code compliance checking process, a BIM and ontology- based automated code compliance checking approach is proposed according to GB 50016- 2014(2018 Edition), Code for fire protection design of buildings. The building passive fire protection design ontology is constructed based on the analysis of fire protection codes. Basic information is retrieved from BIM models based on IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) data framework, and extra information is supplied through semantic enhancement, analysis of space topology and

generation of evacuation distance. Code clauses are interpreted into semantic rules for checking process based on ontology reasoning technology. Finally, a building is taken as an example to verify the feasibility of the proposed BIM and ontology- based automatic checking method.

BIM, ontology, building fire protection, automated code compliance checking