Construction standards are going to be digitized in Kazakhstan
For the first time in Kazakhstan, a fund of digital regulatory and technical documents in construction will be created, the architectural and urban planning catalog will be translated into a machine-readable format.
Digitization of regulatory documents is one of the stages of the digitalization program for the construction industry, it goes in parallel with the program for the implementation of Information Modeling Technology (TIMSO).
It is planned that the digitization of regulatory documents will allow in an automated mode to check information models for the technical safety requirements of design solutions, which will minimize the risk of accidents, automate the work of various types of expertise and positively affect the quality of projects and the calculation of their cost.
To date, the Kazakh Research and Design Institute of Construction and Architecture (“KazNIISA”JSC ) has already completed the main work on digitizing about 40 of the most commonly used state standards in design.
This work was preceded by a research work carried out last year to study the best world experience in the field of machine-readable legislation, as a result of which appropriate guidelines were developed for converting the requirements of standards into digital form. Within the framework of the project for the digitization of standards, it is planned to transfer about 500 regulatory documents into the format of digital requirements.
In addition, as part of the project for the digitization of standards, a unified vocabulary of the construction industry was developed – a digital thesaurus, in which a list of construction terms contained in 1566 normative technical documents included in the architectural and urban planning catalog is formed.
As part of this work, possible collisions within the existing regulatory framework will also be identified for their subsequent elimination. The work on the formation of a digital thesaurus will be completed by the end of this year.