Abstract Automated clash detection in Building Information Modeling (BIM) often produces an excessive number of results, many of which are irrelevant or non-critical to constructability. This burden requires project teams to manually filter clashes, introducing inefficiency and subjectivity. To address this limitation, this study proposed a deep learning–based framework for classifying irrelevant clashes into penetration categories that reflect their constructability implications. A taxonomy of 15 categories was developed through expert consultation, differentiating penetrations by orientation, size, and shape. Two multi-view architectures were evaluated: the Multi-View Convolutional Neural Network (MVCNN), a widely adopted baseline, and the Multi-View Vision Transformer (MVT), a state-of-the-art architecture designed to capture inter-view dependencies through attention mechanisms. A dataset generated from a federated BIM model was used to train and test both models. Results showed that MVT achieved superior performance across accuracy and F1-score, with particular improvements in minority categories involving small or diagonal penetrations. IoU-based analysis further demonstrated that MVT attended more precisely to clash regions, enhancing interpretability. The findings confirmed that Transformer-based multi-view learning offers significant advantages for clash classification. By linking automated classification with reinforcement and constructability requirements, the proposed framework supports more reliable constructability analysis, cost estimation, and project planning.
Yu et al. (Sun,) studied this question.