ADCC Gobal Summit
Program
July 9, 2026 | Vorhoelzer Forum, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
For over four decades, automated design compliance checking (ADCC) has been one of the most enduring and ambitious research agendas in the AEC industry. Yet despite these decades of effort, ADCC has not achieved the level of industry adoption that its potential would warrant. Now, the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, particularly large language models and other generative AI technologies, is fundamentally reshaping what is technically possible. This creates both enormous opportunity and a new set of questions: How should ADCC research reposition itself in the era of AI? What is preserved from four decades of work, and what must be rethought?
We are organizing the ADCC Global Summit to bring together leading researchers, public and private owners and clients, and ADCC software developers for a focused discussion on the current state and future direction of this field. The summit will be held on July 9, 2026, at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany.
The summit is structured around four sessions, each designed to tackle a critical dimension of the ADCC challenge:
| MORNING SESSION | |
| 9:00 – 9:05 | Welcome Remarks (Ghang Lee) |
Session 1 — ADCC Software Demos: Latest Features and Future Directions (Chair: Tanya Bloch) Each presenter showcases the latest key features and upcoming development directions of their tool (20 min each, live or video-recorded). | |
| 9:05 – 9:25 | Jimmy Abualdenien (Nemetschek) – Featured Solibri Model Checker / Solibri Inside |
| 9:25 – 9:45 | Gutaek Kim (Cospec Innolab, Korea) – Featured KBim Assess |
| 9:45 – 10:05 | Robert Amor (CAS Limited, New Zealand) – Featured ACABIM |
| 10:05 – 10:25 | Open Discussion All participants (20 min) |
| 10:25 – 10:45 | Coffee Break |
Session 2 — Bridging the Adoption Gap (Chair: Nora El-Gohary) Why has ADCC not become general practice? Technical and non-technical barriers, and what can be done to overcome them. | |
| 10:45 – 11:05 | Wawan Solihin (novaCITYNETS Pte Ltd & National University of Singapore) – Featured ADCC — Why are we not there yet? |
| 11:05 – 11:25 | Peter Nørkjær Gade (University College Northern Denmark) – Featured Beyond accuracy: Why ADCC’s adoption gap is a crisis of human oversight |
| 11:25 – 11:45 | André Borrmann (TUM) – Featured AI for Compliance Checking: Opportunities and Challenges |
| 11:45 – 12:05 | Pieter Pauwels (Eindhoven University of Technology) – Featured ACC Retro: A semantic rule-checking environment for building performance checking |
| 12:05 – 12:20 | Judith Fauth (TUM) – Contributing Speaker Beyond automation: Why ADCC needs a socio-technical system perspective |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | Open Discussion All participants — Why hasn’t ADCC become standard practice, and what do we do about it? (20 min) |
| 12:40 – 13:40 | Lunch |
| AFTERNOON SESSION | |
Session 3 — Future ADCC Research Directions in the AI Era (Chair: Robert Amor) AI, particularly LLMs, is performing remarkably well. What distinctive contributions can ADCC researchers make? | |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Nora El-Gohary (UIUC) – Featured AI and LLMs for Automated Compliance Checking |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Bimal Kumar (University of Strathclyde) – Featured Relevance of ADCC research in the post-LLM era |
| 14:20 – 14:35 | Alfiia Shakurianova (University of Stuttgart) – Contributing Speaker A multi-agent LLM framework with geometric reasoning for architectural compliance checking and design suggestion generation |
| 14:35 – 14:50 | Shicong Cao (DataDrivenAEC) – Contributing Speaker Minimal viable compliance checking |
| 14:50 – 15:05 | Sunghyeon Cho (SpaceWalk, Korea) – Contributing Speaker Domain expertise Is an environment, not a model |
| 15:05 – 15:25 | Open Discussion All participants — Research priorities for ADCC in the era of AI (15 min) |
| 15:25 – 15:40 | Break |
Session 4 — Emerging Topics: What’s Next? (Chair: Pieter Pauwels) Short presentations on new directions in ADCC. | |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Tanya Bloch (Technion) – Featured Rethinking compliance checking in the age of AI |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Ghang Lee (Yonsei University / TUM IAS) – Featured Theory of checkability |
| 16:20 – 16:35 | Suhyung Jang (TUM) – Contributing Speaker From design compliance checking to compliance-guided design generation |
| 16:35 – 16:50 | Jiabin Wu (TUM) – Contributing Speaker Beyond automated compliance checking: Design healing? |
| 16:50 – 17:10 | Open Discussion All participants — Emerging directions and next steps (20 min) |
| 17:10 – 17:15 | Closing Remarks |
Featured Speakers
Gutaek Kim
CEO, Cospec Innolab
Presentation: KBim Assess
Robert Amor
Professor of Computer Science, University of Auckland
CAS Limited
Presentation: ACABIM
Wahan Solihin
Vice President, Research and Innovation, novaCITYNETS Pte Ltd
Adjunct Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
Presentation: ADCC – Why are we not there yet?
Peter Nørkjær Gade
Head of Research and Docent, University College of Northern Denmark
Presentation: Beyond accuracy: Why ADCC’s adoption gap is a crisis of human oversight
André Borrmann
Professor, Technical University of Munich
Director, TUM Georg Nemetschek Institute – AI for the Built World
Presentation: AI for Compliance Checking: Opportunities and Challenges
Pieter Pauwels
Associate Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology
Presentation: ACC Retro: A semantic rule-checking environment for building performance checking
Nora El-Gohary
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Presentation: AI and LLMs for Automated Compliance Checking
Bimal Kumar
Professor of Architecture, University of Strathclyde
Presentation: Relevance of ADCC research in the post-LLM era
Tanya Bloch
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Presentation: Rethinking compliance checking in the age of AI
Ghang Lee
Professor of Architecture & Architectural Engineering, Yonsei University
TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Senior Fellow
Presentation: Checker-free ADCC and the ADCC taxonomy
Organizational Committee
Ghang Lee (Chair)
Professor, Yonsei University | TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Senior Fellow
Andre Borrmann
Professor, Technical University of Munich
Robert Amor
Professor, University of Auckland