Abstract: Building information modeling (BIM), as the digital expression of construction engineering, is becoming an important means to realize the informatization, industrialization, and intelligence of the whole life of building. The utilization of BIM model as a design delivery represents the future trend of construction design. However, currently, the compliance checking of structural design is conducted manually, which tends to be subjective, inefficient and error-prone. As a result, this paper carried out a case study of the compliance checking of the frame structure, analyzed the BIM model data using the relational database, and employed Java programming to translate the provisions of structure design code, thereby proposing an approach to compliance checking of structural design based on the BIM model. The process can be divided into three main steps: ① Model preparation and information mapping; ② Provision classification and translation; ③ Development of connection and code execution. The results show that the proposed method can partially realize the automatic compliance checking of structural design, improve the scientificity, reliability, and standardization of conformance checking, and provide a technical basis and alternative method for the automation and intelligence of code compliance checking in the future. 

Key words: building information modelling, structural design, compliance checking, relational database, Java