TUM-IAS Fellow Prof. Ghang Lee on "The ADCC Global Summit 2026"

In a 1974 report on the Building Description System (BDS), Prof. Chuck Eastman discussed the future of the BIM system — work that later earned him the title "Father of BIM," though that title was awarded not for this single piece of work alone. In the report, he described "automated code checking" as something that could be realized by developing the BDS (or BIM systems, in modern terms). Yet five decades later, there are still few countries that fully implement automated code checking. What prevents us from fully implementing it in practice? With the rapid development and deployment of AI, validating AI outcomes is becoming ever more important. Accordingly, automated design compliance checking (ADCC) — which extends beyond code checking to include design quality checking — is gaining importance as well. 

Against this backdrop, the first ADCC Global Summit was held from July 8 to 10 at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), sponsored by the TUM Institute for Advanced Study. It centered on four questions: 
1) What are the latest technologies and future directions in the commercial domain? 
2) Why has ADCC not become general practice? 
3) What distinctive contributions can ADCC researchers make? and 
4) What’s Next? 

I, Ghang Lee (TUM-IAS GNI Hans Fischer Senior Fellow), was privileged to serve as the organizing chair of this event. Any organizing chair would say this, but with about 55 of the world's leading ADCC researchers, this event was clearly distinct from other conferences. The discussions were dense and focused, and the summit left us with many ideas and tasks to pursue — as individual researchers and as a community. I hope to have the chance to share the outcomes and discussions with the public in the near future. 

I'd like to thank all the featured speakers — Dr. Jimmy Abualdenien, Gutaek Kim, Robert Amor, Wawan Solihin, Peter Nørkjær Gade, André Borrmann, Nora El-Gohary, Bimal Kumar, and Tanya Bloch — who made this event rich and deep, and the contributing speakers — Alfiia Shakurianova, Shicong Cao, Suhyung Jang, and Jiabin W. — for their inspiring work. We could see the future directions clearly. I also thank all the participants, including Akın Ercan, Thomas Wortmann, Justin Ker-Wei Yeoh, Rui Liu, and Daiva Marcinkeviciute, for their many thought-provoking questions. Finally, I'd like to thank Yonghan Kim, Suhyung Jang, Agata Dalach, Simona Paunovska, Sarah Muehlhaus, and Tatjana Steinberger (TUM-IAS) for their help behind the scenes, as well as co-chairs André Borrmann and Robert Amor.

For more information on the event click here.