Digital building permit and compliance verification

Cost-effective BIM-enabled building permit and compliance verification.
Digitalised building permit and compliance using BIM to improve the productivity and quality of design and construction
ACCORD Project

What Makes It Great

ACCORD Project

Idea

Digitalised building permit and compliance using Geo-BIM to improve the productivity and quality of design and construction. Automated checking is less error prone, more predictable, and fairer. Cost-effective verification limits the number of risks on the applicant side and allow to focus on the complicated issues on the authority side.”
ACCORD Project

Purpose

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

ACCORD Project

Partners

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.

ACCORD Project

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.

ACCORD Project

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.

ACCORD Project