A requirements validation framework for major infrastructure projects

With billions of pounds in lost time and mistakes, the digitisation of information in the construction industry provides the biggest opportunity for improving the built environment assets that people use every day. There is a continued push to improve management and delivery of the best possible products for the users. With growing recognition that more intelligent methods for planning and designing assets is required. Whilst the construction sector made significant gains through the current information digitisation efforts, there is still vast amounts of information that needs to be digitised to ensure usability and add more value to the lifecycle of an asset. This paper provides the initial framework to analyse the impact of requirements validation of an infrastructure asset with real world data, using ifc, asset register and GIS files to demonstrate compliance. It uses systems engineering principles for the application of requirements decomposition, breakdown, and modelling of various MBSE models to show how a function and capability can be validated using semantic web techniques to exchange data. The framework is demonstrated through a highlevel case study for the compliance of a fire safety system of a railway station, based on system and construction data models. Further validation has been accomplished through subject matter expert feedback.