Build an IFC Staircase Egress Compliance Auditor
Inspect emergency staircases in architectural IFC models to assess life safety compliance. Validate tread depths and riser heights against standard building codes to flag evacuation hazards.
What you are building
The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.
Inspect emergency staircases in architectural IFC models to assess life safety compliance. Validate tread depths and riser heights against standard building codes to flag evacuation hazards.
Life Safety Code Inspector
Upload an architectural IFC model into the compliance analysis engine.
Extract IfcStair and IfcStairFlight entities with associated dimensional boundaries.
Calculate average tread run and riser height dimensions.
Output a life safety audit summary highlighting non-compliant staircase geometries.
Audit dashboard showing 3D stair elements color-coded by geometric compliance, detailed riser/tread metrics, and an exportable PDF report.
Download public hospital and school IFC sample designs from open-source BuildingSMART test libraries. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.
IfcOpenShell Parses IfcStair and IfcStairFlight geometry and dimensional attributes using IfcOpenShell Python.
pydantic-ai, ifcopenshell, fastapi. Pydantic AI ensures validated output structures conforming strictly to safety reporting standards. API-based instruction model capable of interpreting architectural safety criteria and summarizing violations.
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.
Identifies all stair flight instances and extracts vertical riser and horizontal tread dimensions.
Flags any stair flight with a riser height exceeding 180mm or tread depth below 280mm.
Validates stair widths against the minimum 1000mm standard clearance.
```json [ { "input": { "stair_id": "Stair_Flight_Egress_01", "riser_height_mm": 175, "tread_depth_mm": 280, "flight_width_mm": 1200, "has_handrails": true }, "expected_output": { "stair_id": "Stair_Flight_Egress_01", "riser_compliant": true, "tread_compliant": true, "width_compliant": true, "status": "APPROVED", "remarks": "Complies with standard egress stair geometry thresholds.", "schema_note": "simplified synthetic app records, not complete official schema files" } }, { "input": { "stair_id": "Stair_Flight_Service_02", "riser_height_mm": 210, "tread_depth_mm": 240, "flight_width_mm": 850, "has_handrails": false }, "expected_output": { "stair_id": "Stair_Flight_Service_02", "riser_compliant": false, "tread_compliant": false, "width_compliant": false, "status": "REJECTED", "remarks": "Excessive riser height and insufficient tread depth; below width clearance.", "schema_note": "simplified synthetic app records, not complete official schema files" } } ] ```
Audit outcomes provide guidance for design revisions. On-site field measurements remain mandatory before municipal occupancy certification. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.
Participation guide
Audit outcomes provide guidance for design revisions. On-site field measurements remain mandatory before municipal occupancy certification. Use mock external writes and human review.
How work is evaluated
Identifies all stair flight instances and extracts vertical riser and horizontal tread dimensions. Flags any stair flight with a riser height exceeding 180mm or tread depth below 280mm. Validates stair widths against the minimum 1000mm standard clearance.
Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.
Challenge datasets
Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.
How submissions are scored
These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.
Complete workflow
Upload an architectural IFC model into the compliance analysis engine. Extract IfcStair and IfcStairFlight entities with associated dimensional boundaries. Calculate average tread run and riser height dimensions. Output a life safety audit summary highlighting non-compliant staircase geometries.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Correctness and evidence
Identifies all stair flight instances and extracts vertical riser and horizontal tread dimensions. Flags any stair flight with a riser height exceeding 180mm or tread depth below 280mm. Validates stair widths against the minimum 1000mm standard clearance.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Review interface
Audit dashboard showing 3D stair elements color-coded by geometric compliance, detailed riser/tread metrics, and an exportable PDF report.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Safe execution
Audit outcomes provide guidance for design revisions. On-site field measurements remain mandatory before municipal occupancy certification.
This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.
What you should walk away with
Upload an architectural IFC model into the compliance analysis engine.
Extract IfcStair and IfcStairFlight entities with associated dimensional boundaries.
Calculate average tread run and riser height dimensions.
Output a life safety audit summary highlighting non-compliant staircase geometries.
Reference links and supporting material
Download public hospital and school IFC sample designs from open-source BuildingSMART test libraries. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.
Challenge setup
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Pydantic AI
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- Upload an architectural IFC model into the compliance analysis engine. Extract IfcStair and IfcStairFlight...
- Identifies all stair flight instances and extracts vertical riser and horizontal tread dimensions. Flags an...
- Audit dashboard showing 3D stair elements color-coded by geometric compliance, detailed riser/tread metrics...
- 2 public reference cases
- 2 configured tools
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- Pydantic AI · Optional
- 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
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