Regulatory compliance is an essential driver in the design of building projects, spanning across different development stages and relating to the fulfilment of constraints, rules and recommendations expressed in regulatory documents. In this process, designers generally abide by the rules and constraints described in the requirements (i.e., adopting a prescriptive approach to design); or use...
Introduction
Many countries are interested in applying Building Information Modelling (BIM) to streamline building permit application, review, and approval because the current permit practices are considered time consuming and sometimes cause delays in construction projects (Ullah et al., 2020; Fauth and Soibelman, 2022). However, developing a BIM-based building permit...
A building permit is a legal authorization granted by municipal authorities to start the construction after verifying the proposed design adheres to building and urban planning regulations (Noardo et al., 2022). Its process is vital for safe and sustainable development but remains complex and inefficient for both applicants and building authorities. It involves extensive paperwork submissions...
ILS Space: applying and extracting a higher order spatial taxonomy from IFC building models
Background
The evolution of Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers unprecedented capabilities for collaboration and data management in the construction sector. However, limitations remain in terms of capturing, representing and extracting the more implicit, higher order functional...
The importance of digitalizing building permits internationally plays a key role in breaking down the barriers that characterize the time-consuming and human error-prone process as being based on manual controls. The standardization and digitalization of building permit procedures brings several benefits that can positively impact both the competent authorities and applicants. Benefits include...
BIM and GIS technologies allows to communicate a design proposal with a great capacity of communication. This will help to improve checking processes in building permits, but potential privacy and IPR challenges should be studied carefully in advance. The use of AI or automatic checking, external companies helping the administration or just the massive structured amount of information that a...
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The Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry is undergoing transformative changes driven by technological advancements, with a particular focus on digitalization and automation opportunities. One key area of interest is the building permit process. Building permit processes are complex and multidisciplinary (Noardo et al., 2022). While the core activities...
Introduction
The digitalisation of building permit processes refers to using digital technologies to streamline building permit application, review and approval. For example, the permit applicant can use an online service to submit digital designs and other required information, and the authorities may use software to conduct automatic code compliance checks. A digital...
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Building information modelling (BIM) is being increasingly adopted in building permit processes (Ullah et al., 2020, 2022). At the same time, countries are announcing compulsory climate declarations, mostly based on the building lifecycle assessment (LCA) (Malabi Eberhardt et al., 2023; von Malmborg et al., 2023). For example, Finland will require such climate declaration and...
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The digitalisation of the building permitting (DBP) process is suffering a significant push, with several researchers actively working and supported by the European Commission's (EC) ambition of setting a common framework for it.
Similarly, following several European Union (EU) studies, a common framework of requirements to ensure data traceability at the building level and...
