TUM Georg Nemetschek Institute

Invitation to the ADCC Global Summit July 9, 2026  |  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. From the early rule-based systems of the 1980s and 1990s to the emergence of BIM-integrated checking tools in the 2000s, the vision of automating the verification of building designs against regulatory codes has driven sustained research and development efforts worldwide. Standards such as IFC have provided the data backbone, while rule-description approaches—including domain-specific languages such as CCL and LegalRuleML, the RASE methodology, and others—have sought to formalize the logic of building regulations into computable forms. Yet despite these decades of effort, ADCC has not achieved the level of industry adoption that its potential would warrant. Most compliance checking in practice still relies heavily on manual review.… [weiterlesen]