Digital building permit and compliance verification

Cost-effective BIM-enabled digital building permit and compliance verification.
Digitalised permitting and compliance using BIM and GIS changes bureaucratic manual process to improve the productivity and quality of design and construction.
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What Makes It Great

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Breaking barriers

Digitalised building permits and compliance using Geo-BIM is a cross-silos integration with the construction industry. It promises to bring tangible benefits for communities and sectors, building a trustful and fair ecosystem. Automated checking is less error-prone, more predictable, and more objective. Cost-effective verification limits the number of risks on the applicant side, allows to focus on the complicated issues on the authority side and enables the circular economy.
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Real Life Needs

Digitalise permitting and compliance processes using BIM and other data sources will not only improve the productivity and quality of design and construction processes. It will support the design of climate-neutral buildings and advance a sustainable built environment in line with the EU Green Deal and new European Bauhaus initiative.

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The solutions are implemented and demonstrated across construction projects in various EU regulatory contexts: UK, Finland, Estonia, Germany and Spain.

 

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About

ACCORD’s objective is to digitalise permitting and compliance processes using BIM and other data sources to improve the productivity and quality of design and construction processes, support the design of climate-neutral buildings and advance a sustainable built environment in line with the EU Green Deal and new European Bauhaus initiative.

These digitized processes must be human-centred, transparent and cost-effective for the permit applicants and authorities. Another objective is to develop and integrate technical solutions for automating compliance checking of buildings in their design, construction and renovation/demolition lifecycle phases. All this will be based on open and neutral data exchange standards.

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How do we get there

The Project will develop a semantic framework for European digital building permitting processes, regulations, data and tools.

 

This framework will drive rule formalization and integration of existing compliance tools as microservices.

 

Solutions and tools will provide consistency, interoperability and reliability with national regulatory frameworks, processes and standards.

The solutions are implemented and demonstrated across construction projects in various EU regulatory contexts: UK, Finland, Estonia, Germany and Spain.

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ACCORD supports Key Strategic Orientations

Developing open APIs allowing local authorities to choose their digital services without a lock-in.

 

Automating the checking of environmental regulations (CO2 emissions, LCA and circular economy) by developing machine-readable rules, thus steering the digital and green transition, and involving relevant stakeholders through co-creation, and

 

Creating information guidelines for structured data models to increase the value of buildings and reduce their operating costs and

 

Providing the open ACCORD framework based on microservices allowing businesses to connect and develop solutions resulting in a scalable, durable and flexible permitting ecosystem.

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ACCORD - Automating the Building Permitting and Compliance

ACCORD is a Horizon Europe project (2022-2025) that focuses on automating the building permit and compliance processes using BIM and other data sources. ACCORD develops a Semantic Framework that will be demonstrated in five real-life construction projects around Europe: Finland, Estonia, Germany, UK and Spain. The framework includes semantic interoperability, a rule formalisation tool and integrated micro-services for building permit and compliance checking.

From landscape to objectives

User requirements for digital building permit solutions

Landscape review

Digital Permit in the experts’ forecasts

Objectives

ACCORD’s main result is the semantic building permitting framework based on microservices that integrate many manual steps in the building permit process into a semi-automated workflow.
ACCORD will also develop

  • a rule formalisation tool, based on semantic web technologies, allowing formalisation of regulations into a standardized rule representation format.
  • a Ruleset Database allows for the storage and retrieval of rules stored in a semantic format for applications of various stakeholders when using building permitting and compliance checking services
    Building Compliance Checking Microservices supporting various use cases
  • open standardized Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) (D4.2) for building compliance and other information services to allow integrated dataflows between building permitting, building compliance, and other information services

Exploitation

Key exploitable results (KERs) are preliminarily identified in three areas:

  1. Technical standards and harmonised guidelines for software and platform development for the use-case of automated digital building permit process.
  2. Guidelines and information requirements for the usage process (for disciplines).
  3. Body of knowledge, e.g., awareness-raising information package and E-learning courses.

Related Activities

Accord is actively contributing to the European digital building permit community of practice though exchange with the sister projects: CHEK and DigiChecks, buildingSMART Regulatory Room, BRIESE and others. Learn more.