The SEAS Building ontology describes a taxonomy of buildings, building spaces, and rooms. Some categorizations are based on the energy efficiency related to their insulation etc., although the actual values for classes depend the country specific regulations and geographical locations. Other categorizations are based on occupancy and activities. There is no single accepted categorization available. This taxonomy uses some types selected from: - International building occupancy based categories (USA) - The Classification of Types of Constructions (EU) - Finnish building categorization VTJ2000 (Finland) - Wikipedia category page for Rooms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rooms This ontology should limit the overlap with the following existing specialized ontologies: - [FIEMSER ontology](http://sites.google.com/site/smartappliancesproject/ontologies/fiemser#). - [gbXML ontology](http://www.gbxml.org/). - [ifcOWL ontology](http://www.buildingsmart-tech.org/ifcOWL/IFC4), which is a OWL version of the Building Information Model standard. - the potential ontology that might be developed in the context of the [Linked Building Data community group](https://www.w3.org/community/lbd/), or its successor Working Group.
The SEAS Building Ontology
Bathroom is mainly used for bathing & washing up related activities.
Bathroom
Detached house.
YhdenAsunnonTalo
OneDwellingBuilding
An open building space connection is a connection between two building spaces that is open. This connection may for instance be a hole in a wall, or a virtual separation between two offices in an open space. Instances of `seas:OpenBuildingSpaceConnection` may be typed by classes from specialized building ontologies.
Open Building Space Connection
A net zero-energy building (ZEB) is a building that over a year does not use more energy than it generates.
Nollaenergiatalo
ZeroEnergyBuilding
Buildings used for industrial production, e.g. factories, workshops, slaughterhouses, breweries, assembly plants, etc.
IndustrialBuilding
A gallery or passage connecting parts of a building; hallway.
Corridor
Bedroom is used mainly for sleeping.
Bedroom
Places housing any type of a power plants.
VoimalaRakennus
PowerplantBuilding
the large flat piece of wood, glass etc that you move when you go into or out of a building, room, vehicle etc, or when you open a cupboard (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online)
Door
A story of a building, partly or wholly underground.
Basement
A non-residential building is a building at least half of which is used for other than residential purposes.
NonResidentalBuilding
A work or office space set up in a person's home and used exclusively for business on a regular basis.
Tree house
Schools and day care centers.
Opetusrakennus
EducationalBuilding
A residential building is a building at least half of which is used for residential purposes.
Asuinrakennus
ResidentalBuilding
A small usually walled and often paved zone open to the sky and adjacent to a building.
Yard
A room in which meals are eaten, as in a home or hotel, especially the room in which the major or more formal meals are eaten.
Dining Room
A floor is a upwards tilted horzontal surface, could be divided to interior, exposed (outside) or raised floor.
Floor
A house typically consuming half the energy than a norm house.
Matalaenergiatalo
LowEnergyHouse
Elevator is used to transport people between different floors.
Elevator
A closed building space connection is a closed connection between two building spaces. This separation may for instance be a wall, i.e., a (tilted more than 60 percent) vertical surface. Instances of `seas:ClosedBuildingSpaceConnection` may be typed by classes from specialized building ontologies.
Closed Building Space Connection
A Space is a 3D volume bounded by surfaces. According to the FIEMSER definition, a building space in SAREF defines the physical spaces of the building.
BuildingSpace
A building fulfilling the minimal criteria for energy efficiency.
Normitalo
NormHouse
Room for other special utilities and hobbies.
Utility Room
Room for storage.
Storage Room
A building, room, or zone, usually chiefly of glass, in which the temperature is maintained within a desired range, used for cultivating tender plants or growing plants out of season.
Greenhouse
Room for garage.
Garage
Places where services are provided. Examples: banks, insurance agencies.
Toimistorakennus
BusinessBuilding
A net plus-energy building is a building that over a year does generates more energy than it uses.
Plusenergiatalo
PlusEnergyBuilding
Sauna is a special type bathroom for enjoying heated steam.
Sauna
A house typically consuming a quarter of the energy than a norm house.
Passiivitalo
PassiveHouse
The storey represents a (nearly) horizontal aggregation of spaces that are vertically bound.
BuildingStorey
A construction designed to bridge a large vertical distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps.
Stairs
Surface that marks the frontier of a building space, and represents the connection point to other building spaces.
Building Space Frontier
A structure, either attached or integrated into a building, which allows enjoyment of the surrounding landscape while being sheltered from adverse weather.
Swimming Pool
Ceiling is a downwards tilted horizontal surface.
Ceiling
Connection between two building spaces, where they may potentially exchange heat, humidity, agents.
Building Space Connection
Places where goods are displayed and sold. Examples: grocery stores, department stores, and gas stations.
Liikerakennus
MercantileBuilding
A room, set of rooms, or building where the business of a commercial or industrial organization or of a professional person is conducted.
Office
An entrance hall, corridor, or vestibule, as in a public building, often serving as an anteroom; foyer.
Lobby
Civil engineering works are all constructions not classified under buildings : railways, roads, bridges, highways, airport runways, dams etc.
CivilEngnineeringWork
A large entrance room of a house or building.
Hall
Kitchen is a room used mainly for cooking and possibly eating.
Kitchen
Building site is a locale containing one or more separate buildings. They are zones.
SiteOfBuilding
Living Room is the main room of daytime activity.
Living Room
Constructions are structures connected with the ground which are made of construction materials and components and/or for which construction work is carried out.
Construction
A detached small residential building.
Pientalo
SmallHouse
a space or an zone of glass in the wall of a building or vehicle that lets in light (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online)
Window
An opennable building space connection is a connection between two building spaces that has a certain degree of openness. This connection may for instance be a window or a door. Instances of `seas:OpennableBuildingSpaceConnection` may be typed by classes from specialized building ontologies.
Opennable Building Space Connection
A room in a building space enclosed by surfaces, this could also be modelled as role of space, not subclass of the space itself.
Room
A man made structure with spatial properties.
BuildingSpatialStructure
A (tilted more than 60 percent) vertical surface that separates building spaces.
Roof
Buildings are roofed constructions which can be used separately, have been built for permanent purposes, can be entered by persons and are suitable or intended for protecting persons, animals or objects.
Building
A small house, especially one for children to play in, built or placed up in the branches of a tree.
Tree House
A secondary residential building used only occasionally during vacations such as a summerhouse or cottage.
VapaaAjanRakennus
HolidayBuilding
the part of a building, especially of a house, directly under a roof; garret.
Attic
A roof upwards tilted surface tilted up part of upper envelope of building.
Wall
A tank or large artificial basin, as of concrete, for filling with water for swimming.
Institutions such as hospitals providing medical and surgical treatment and nursing care for ill or injured people.
HoitoalanRakennus
InstitutionalBuilding
places used for people gathering for entertainment, worship, and eating or drinking. Examples: churches, restaurants.
Kokoontumisrakennus
AssemblyBuilding
An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
Balcony
Places where items are stored. Examples: warehouses, reservoirs and silos.
VarastoRakennus
StorageBuilding
A room or zone, as in a home or apartment building, reserved for doing the family wash.
Laundry