Applications of Building Information Modeling for COVID-19 spread assessment due to the organization of building artifacts

Quick and accurate building-level infectious disease transmission evaluation is a key concern that gains traction nowadays. This chapter summarizes Building Information Modeling (BIM) applications for COVID-19 Spread Assessment due to the Organization of Building Artifacts (CSAOBA). Development of BIM-based inbuilt and add-in tools for CSAOBA offer a faster approach for data gathering and sharing. A Geographic Information System (GIS) and BIM-integrated CSAOBA at the provincial level information system is a suitable platform for retrieving and processing huge data automatically and accurately. BIM delivers project-level information and GIS stores and manipulates the regional-level information for district-level assessments. Future BIM standards are to incorporate CSAOBA-related modeling rules and regulations, which may ease handling emergency situations. BIM-based reliable CSAOBA tools require efficient ontologies and related algorithms to increase the accuracy and industrial deployment.