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Challenge

Build an IFC Accessibility Ramp and Door Auditor

Inspect door clear widths and ramp inclinations in architectural IFC models to assess compliance with accessibility guidelines. Generate remedial design tasks for substandard circulation routes.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Inspect door clear widths and ramp inclinations in architectural IFC models to assess compliance with accessibility guidelines. Generate remedial design tasks for substandard circulation routes.

Universal Design Accessibility Auditor

Query IfcDoor and IfcRamp elements with dimensions from architectural model files.

Compare clear door opening widths against the standard 850mm barrier-free threshold.

Calculate ramp slope gradients and identify segments exceeding maximum 1:12 inclination.

Produce prioritized non-conformance action items for architectural revision.

Accessibility scorecard dashboard displaying non-compliant circulation elements with direct 3D tags.

Sample IFC building models containing internal doors and circulation ramps from open IFC repositories. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

IfcOpenShell Leverages IfcOpenShell Python schema parsing APIs and ifcbimtester test definitions for property validation.

pydantic-ai, fastapi, rich. Pydantic AI guarantees structured validation of geometric element properties and accessibility rule outputs. Fast inference model specialized in numerical condition checking and technical compliance documentation.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Processes IfcDoor and IfcRamp entity parameters extracted via IfcOpenShell conventions.

Flags doors with clear width below 0.85 meters.

Flags ramps with slope gradient steeper than 8.33 percent (1:12 slope).

```json [ { "input": { "door_elements": [ { "id": "DOOR-01", "name": "Main Entrance", "overall_width_m": 0.95, "clear_width_m": 0.88 } ], "ramp_elements": [ { "id": "RAMP-01", "length_m": 6, "rise_m": 0.45 } ] }, "expected_output": { "compliant_elements": 2, "violations": 0, "audit_pass": true, "remediation_tasks": [] } }, { "input": { "door_elements": [ { "id": "DOOR-02", "name": "Restroom Door", "overall_width_m": 0.8, "clear_width_m": 0.74 } ], "ramp_elements": [ { "id": "RAMP-02", "length_m": 4, "rise_m": 0.5 } ] }, "expected_output": { "compliant_elements": 0, "violations": 2, "audit_pass": false, "remediation_tasks": [ { "element_id": "DOOR-02", "issue": "Clear width 0.74m is less than mandatory 0.85m" }, { "element_id": "RAMP-02", "issue": "Slope 12.5% exceeds maximum permitted 8.33% (1:12)" } ] } } ] ```

Accessibility audit results assist architects; official building code approval must be granted by code compliance officials. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Accessibility audit results assist architects; official building code approval must be granted by code compliance officials. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Processes IfcDoor and IfcRamp entity parameters extracted via IfcOpenShell conventions. Flags doors with clear width below 0.85 meters. Flags ramps with slope gradient steeper than 8.33 percent (1:12 slope).

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Query IfcDoor and IfcRamp elements with dimensions from architectural model files. Compare clear door opening widths against the standard 850mm barrier-free threshold. Calculate ramp slope gradients and identify segments exceeding maximum 1:12 inclination. Produce prioritized non-conformance action items for architectural revision.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Processes IfcDoor and IfcRamp entity parameters extracted via IfcOpenShell conventions. Flags doors with clear width below 0.85 meters. Flags ramps with slope gradient steeper than 8.33 percent (1:12 slope).

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Accessibility scorecard dashboard displaying non-compliant circulation elements with direct 3D tags.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Accessibility audit results assist architects; official building code approval must be granted by code compliance officials.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Query IfcDoor and IfcRamp elements with dimensions from architectural model files.

  • Compare clear door opening widths against the standard 850mm barrier-free threshold.

  • Calculate ramp slope gradients and identify segments exceeding maximum 1:12 inclination.

  • Produce prioritized non-conformance action items for architectural revision.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Sample IFC building models containing internal doors and circulation ramps from open IFC repositories. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

Pydantic AI

Typed Python agent framework.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Query IfcDoor and IfcRamp elements with dimensions from architectural model files. Compare clear door openi...
  • Processes IfcDoor and IfcRamp entity parameters extracted via IfcOpenShell conventions. Flags doors with cl...
  • Accessibility scorecard dashboard displaying non-compliant circulation elements with direct 3D tags.
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Pydantic AI · Optional
Orchestration
  • Pydantic AI · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

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Recipe freeze marker

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