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Codify Asset Solutions Limited
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Astravision Solutions Limited
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The University of Auckland
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Modularized BIM Data Validation Framework Integrating Visual Programming Language with LegalRuleML
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 04-10-2018
Towards fully automated unmanned aerial vehicle-enabled bridge inspection: Where are we at?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Integrating UAV and BIM for automated visual building inspection: a systematic review and conceptual framework
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 11-2022
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1101/6/062030
Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has gained popularity in visual building inspection due to its unique advantages of high mobility and low cost. However, it has been a challenge to efficiently manage the large number of images collected by the camera-equipped UAV for analysis and support building condition assessment. One potential solution is to manage the UAV data and building data through the platform of Building Information Modelling (BIM). However, little research has been found that successfully combined UAV and BIM for the visual inspection of buildings. This research explores the state-of-the-art UAV and BIM for visual building inspection through a systematic literature review. A mixed quantitative-qualitative analysis is conducted to provide insights into the application of UAV and BIM in visual building inspection based on identified academic publications (i.e., 48 articles on UAV, 31 articles on BIM, and 4 articles on integrating UAV and BIM). Furthermore, challenges and possible research opportunities are highlighted to guide future research: (1) integrating UAV and BIM to automate the visual building inspection process, including the data collection and data management (2) considering the safety concern induced by the complex surrounding environment for the BIM-based UAV flight path planning (3) developing an efficient way for managing UAV images in BIM. In addition, a conceptual framework for integrating UAV and BIM towards automated visual building inspection is proposed to serve as a roadmap.
Review of the circumstances among children in immigrant families in Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-06-2010
Automated UAV image-to-BIM registration for building façade inspection using improved generalised Hough transform
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2023
Child poverty and child rights: edging towards a definition
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2008
The promise of automated compliance checking
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
Regulatory knowledge encoding guidelines for automated compliance audit of building engineering design
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Date: 17-06-2014
What can data on educational outcomes reveal regarding Australian children's right to develop 'to their fullest potential'?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2009
DOI: 10.1177/103530460902000104
Abstract: Is Australia fulfilling its obligations towards its children, in particular fostering their development to their fullest potential, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child? This article addresses this complex question by elaborating three alternative conceptualisations of the right to development to one's fullest potential, based on the literature on human rights principles, and on the writings of the philosophers John Rawls, Michael Walzer, and Amartya Sen. The analysis suggests that while Australia performs well in comparison with other rich countries according to indicators of educational achievement, disparities in educational outcomes are large, implying that many children fail to realise their right to education to their fullest potential. This is not surprising. More surprising is the contrast between the diligence with which educational outcomes in Australia are measured, and the lack of accurate information on public resource inputs (except at the most highly aggregated levels) to achieve those outcomes. The paper concludes that while the measurement of student outcomes is an important step in the realisation of all Australian children's right to education to their fullest potential, the failure to accurately monitor resource inputs represents an equal failure by Australian governments to protect and promote children's rights.
Lessons Learned on Adopting Automated Compliance Checking in the AEC Industry: A Global Study
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Date: 07-2023
The impact of separation and child support on parents' and children's incomes Final report
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2008
Alcohol and other drug related deaths among young people in CIS countries: proximal and distal causes and implications for policy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2007.10.005
Abstract: Although the mortality crisis that followed the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1992 has been well researched, most attention has been paid to mortality among middle-aged men. There has been relatively little analysis of death rates among young people, many of which appear related to alcohol and other drug (AOD) use. Death rates ranged from exceedingly high in some countries (e.g. Russia) to very low in others (e.g. Armenia). This ergence among Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries increased considerably over the 1990s. What caused this ergence in youth deaths and what policy response is needed? An ecological study of country-level data was used to explore the relationships between risk factors, AOD use and youth deaths across time and between countries. Qualitative research literature was used to supplement the statistical data. AOD abuse risk factors were ided into 'proximal causes' (e.g. AOD availability) and 'distal causes' (e.g. social cohesion, welfare, culture). Proximal risk factors appeared to explain some of the AOD use and death data, but they did not explain all of the country differences. Analysis of distal risk factors suggested that family and community strength are important factors in the trends in AOD abuse and youth mortality. The policy response to AOD abuse and mortality among young people needs to attend to both proximal and distal factors. An exclusive focus on proximal risk factors is unlikely to provide a satisfactory solution. Rather, the social determinants of child and youth development need to be considered. More research is needed on the relationship between AOD abuse and youth mortality, and on the influence of family and community strength on both these outcomes in the region. Useful lessons may be learned from countries such as Armenia, where both AOD abuse and youth mortality have remained low.
A Method for Measuring Public Investment in Australia's Young People Draft Final Report
Publisher: Social Policy Research Centre
Date: 2011
Neural Semantic Parsing of Building Regulations for Compliance Checking
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 11-2022
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1101/9/092022
Abstract: Computerising building regulations to allow reasoning is one of the main challenges in automated compliance checking in the built environment. While there has been a long history of translating regulations manually, in recent years, natural language processing (NLP) has been used to support or automate this task. While rule- and ontology-based information extraction and transformation approaches have achieved accurate translations for narrow domains and specific regulation types, machine learning (ML) promises increased scalability and adaptability to new regulation styles. Since ML usually requires many annotated ex les as training data, we take advantage of the long history of building code computerisation and use a corpus of manually translated regulations to train a transformer-based encoder-decoder model. Given a relatively small corpus, the model learns to predict the logical structure and extracts entities and relations reasonably well. While the translation quality is not adequate to fully automate the process, the model shows the potential to serve as an auto-completion system and to identify manually translated regulations that need to be reviewed.
Automating conventional compliance audit procxsesses
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Investment in early childhood in Australia: International comparisons and recent trends
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
DOI: 10.5172/HESR.18.1.94
Bim-based compliance audit requirements for building consent processing
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 03-09-2018
Patient Adherence to Scheduled Vital Sign Measurements During Home Telemonitoring: Analysis of the Intervention Arm in a Before and After Trial
Publisher: JMIR Publications Inc.
Date: 09-04-2018
Computerizing Regulatory Knowledge for Building Engineering Design
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Date: 09-2016
A Socio-Economic Profile of Families in the First Wave of the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2012
Computer-aided Compliance Audit to Support Performance-based Fire Engineering Design
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2014
Training on digitized building regulations for automated rule extraction
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 08-03-2023
Children's agency and the welfare state: Policy priorities and contradictions in Australia and the UK
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2010
Abstract: Since the early 1990s, liberal welfare regimes have begun to treat lone parents as workers rather than as carers. This has happened in conjunction with an ongoing ‘moral panic’ about the need to develop policies to invest in children, and to protect them from adult worlds. The purpose of this article is to analyse contradictions within and between these strands of policy in two liberal welfare states — Australia and the UK. The article argues that recent welfare-to-work policies in both countries bring into sharp relief the contradictions inherent in assumptions that welfare states make about the agency of lone parents as workers and carers, and of children as incompetent.
Infant Mortality in Armenia 1992-2003: A comment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2007
DOI: 10.1016/J.EHB.2007.03.003
Abstract: The purpose of this comment is to counsel caution in some of the conclusions drawn in an otherwise fine article recently published in Economics and Human Biology on infant mortality in Armenia by Hakobyan, Mkrtchyan and Yepiskoposyan. These relate first, to the reliability of estimates and trends in infant mortality estimated from DHS data second, to the interpretation of what the authors consider to be a 'low' infant mortality rate in former communist countries given their level of economic development and third, to the role of the health care infrastructure in countries of the former Soviet Union in producing these 'low' infant mortality levels. This comment argues that trends in infant mortality in Armenia and other CIS countries, although probably declining, are perhaps less certain than the authors allow, that existing evidence does not suggest that they are uniformly low by global standards, or that the health care systems in CIS countries are uniformly effective in reducing infant deaths.
Maintainable process model driven online legal expert systems
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-10-2019
Investigating the New Zealand Off-Site Manufacturing Industry’s Readiness for Automated Compliance Checking
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Date: 12-2022
Effective Facility Management and Operations via a BIM-based Integrated Information System
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2014
A method for assessing the adequacy of Australian children’s living standards
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 26-07-2012
Simplified schema queries for supporting BIM-based rule-checking applications
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2020
Automated BIM data validation integrating open-standard schema with visual programming language
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
Sharing building information using the IFC data model for FDS fire simulation
Publisher: International Association for Fire Safety Science
Date: 2008
The implications of poverty on children's readiness to learn
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2010
DOI: 10.1177/183693911003500408
Abstract: THIS PAPER REVIEWS AUSTRALIAN and international literature to examine the effect of poverty on children's readiness to learn. It includes a discussion of how children's readiness and ability to learn can be nurtured from birth, and how poverty places a child's healthy developmental pathway at risk. The paper concludes with a discussion of the barriers to the introduction of successful early intervention programs in Australia.
Automated Building Code Compliance Checking - Where is it at ?
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2013
Uncertain impacts: trends in public expenditure on children and child outcomes in Australia since the 1980s
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-06-2012
Conceptualisation of social and emotional wellbeing for children and young people, and policy implications
Publisher: Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
Date: 2010
Poverty and deprivation among children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-06-2009
The implications of poverty on children's readiness to learn
Publisher: Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
Date: 2009
Using IFC to Support Enclosure Fire Dynamics Simulation
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
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National Science Challenge Building Better Homes, Towns And Cities (NSC BBHTC)
Start Date: 2018
End Date: 2018
Funder: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
View Funded ActivityImpact Of BIM Adoption In An Integrated System To Support Facilities Management And Operations
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 2014
Funder: BRANZ
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