- Author
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Lopez, L. A.
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Elam, S. L.
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Wright, R. N.
- Title
- Mapping Principles for the Standards Interface for Computer Aided Design.
- Coporate
- Illinois Univ., Urbana-Champaign
National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NBSIR 85-3115
February 1985
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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building codes; design standards; mapping; construction; data processing
- Identifiers
- computer aided design; analysis; data bases
- Abstract
- Integrated computed aided design has great potential for increasing the quality and efficiency of the design process. However, building designs are subject to requirements expressed in standards (including project-specific criteria, specified national standards and building codes). Standards must be incorporated correctly and efficiently in the computer aided design process in order that the process be correct and efficient. Standards must be programmed for data processing, checked for consistency with the project and legal requirements, and updated when these requirements are changed or updated. Programs for standards, applications programs for design, and project data bases should be distinct, but integrable, to permit each to be developed independently, but then to be widely applicable in association with other programs. Techniques developed for standards analysis, systhesis and expression (SASE) are extended to allow SASE representations of standards to serve as programs expressing the standards for use in computer aided design. Mapping principles are derived to define the data interface requirements between SASE representations of standards and applications programs.