Building Information Modeling

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Building Information Modeling studies how to create, query, edit, and validate digital building models that combine 3D geometry with semantic and relational data, often using the IFC standard. Approaches include rule- and graph-based compliance checking, reconstruction from scans and floor plans, structured model representations, and language-model agents for natural-language queries and design tasks. Benchmarks increasingly test geometric accuracy, semantic validity, topology, and machine-checkable requirements, with external validators and expert review helping ground outputs. A central challenge is enabling AI to assist with authoring and information access while preserving the precise geometric and relational constraints required in engineering workflows.

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  1. When to Trust the BIM: Identifiability-Aware LiDAR-Inertial--BIM Fusion under As-Built Deviations

    Nov 6, 2026Yujie Zhang, Yuxuan Guo, Xinbao Sun +4LiDAR LocalizationRobot Localization

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, No. 5340 Xiping Road, Beichen District, Tianjin, 300401, China

  2. CRAB: Cuboid-based Representation for As-built BIM from Point Clouds

    Oct 21, 2026Haoran Xiong, Jing Wang, Shanshan Pan +3Building Information Modeling

    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Visual Media and Multidimensional Intelligence, College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, China, Shenzhen · University of Guelph, Canada, Guelph

  3. Evidence-gated multimodal parsing and vectorization of architectural floor plans

    Sep 22, 2026Hongxuan Chen, Wenda Wang, Jiachen Lu +5Building Information Modeling

    School of Architecture, Tsinghua University

  4. A Building as a Repository: KIR, a Typed Intermediate Representation for Agent-Authored Building Information Models

    Sep 13, 2026Dmitry KuklevBuilding Information ModelingAgentic Code Generation

    Independent Researcher

  5. BIMScript: Material-Aware Structured Scene Programs for BIM Ingestion

    Aug 19, 2026Prakash Kondibhau Naikade, Thomas B. Moeslund, Andreas MøgelmoseBuilding Information Modeling3D Scene Representation

    AI:Xpertise Lab, Aalborg University, Denmark · Visual Analysis and Perception Laboratory, Aalborg University, Denmark · Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Denmark

  6. PolarSym: Polar Geometry-aware Attention for CAD Floorplan Parsing

    Aug 12, 2026Kerui Chen, Yiqing Wang, Kangzhou Xin +2Panoptic SegmentationTransformer Attention

    School of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou, China · Third Dimension (Henan) Software Technology, Zhengzhou, China

  7. ARCHER: Agentic Rule and Compliance Harness for Executable Regulations

    Jul 28, 2026Chiraag Singh Anand, Xue Wen Tan, Lionel Teo +1LLM Agent OrchestrationLLM-Based Program Synthesis

    Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore

  8. BIM-Edit: Benchmarking Large Language Models for IFC-Based Building Information Modeling

    Jun 18, 2026Bharathi Kannan Nithyanantham, Clemens Kujat, Tobias Sesterhenn +5LLM EvaluationBuilding Information Modeling

    University of Rostock · Clausthal University of Technology

  9. Automating Geometry-Intensive Compliance Checking in BIM: Graph-Based Semantic Reasoning Framework

    Jun 10, 2026Zixuan Xiao, Pei Troh Koh, Jun Ma +1Building Information ModelingGraph Reasoning

    Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

  10. Ishigaki-IDS: An Open-Weight Verifier-Aware Model for Information Delivery Specification Drafting in Building Information Modeling

    Jun 7, 2026Ryo Kanazawa, Koyo Hidaka, Teppei Miyamoto +9Building Information ModelingStructured Output Generation

    ONESTRUCTION Inc. · Tottori, Japan · AWS GenAI Innovation +2

  11. Ishigaki-IDS-Bench: A Benchmark for Generating Information Delivery Specification from BIM Information Requirements

    May 21, 2026Ryo Kanazawa, Koyo Hidaka, Teppei Miyamoto +9LLM EvaluationBenchmark Construction

    ONESTRUCTION Inc. Tottori, Japan · AWS GenAI Innovation Center Tokyo, Japan

  12. IfcLLM: Natural Language Querying of IFC Models through Complementary Relational and Graph Representations

    May 13, 2026Rabindra Lamsal, Sisi Zlatanova, Haowen Xu +2Building Information ModelingLLM Agents

    GRID Lab, School of Built Environment, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia · School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  13. BIM Information Extraction Through LLM-based Adaptive Exploration

    May 3, 2026Sylvain Hellin, Suhyung Jang, Stefan Fuchs +2Building Information ModelingLLM Information Extraction

    Chair of Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Georg Nemetschek Institute, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  14. BIMStruct3D: A Fully Automated Hybrid Learning Scan-to-BIM Pipeline with Integrated Topology Refinement

    Apr 27, 2026Mahdi Chamseddine, Fabian Kaufmann, Marius Schellen +33D ReconstructionPoint Cloud Learning

    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany · RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  15. Qwen-BIM: developing large language model for BIM-based design with domain-specific benchmark and dataset

    Feb 24, 2026Jia-Rui Lin, Yun-Hong Cai, Xiang-Rui Ni +2Benchmark DesignLLM Evaluation

    Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 100084 · Key Laboratory of Digital Construction and Digital Twin, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Beijing, China, 100084 · PetroChina Planning & Engineering Institute, Beijing, China, 100083