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Automating the Building Permitting and Compliance Checking
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Advancing Digital Building Permitting
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Welcome to the ACCORD's 1st newsletter.
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This is a bi-annual newsletter designed to inform you of the latest developments of the EU and innovative UK-funded project ACCORD. In this first edition, you will learn about the project and the cases in which ACCORD solutions will be tested and validated.
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Introducing ACCORD
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ACCORD is a Horizon Europe project (2022-2025) that automates 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, the UK, and Spain. The framework includes semantic interoperability, a rule formalisation tool, and integrated micro-services for building permit and compliance checking.
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Demonstrations Cases
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ACCORD will develop technical solutions that will be demonstrated in real-life construction projects around Europe: Finland, Estonia, Germany, the UK, and Spain. Each country demonstration will select some regulations or standards and create machine-readable rules. ACCORD’s software partners will implement these rules using a semantic approach. In practice, a specific rule language will be used to convert the rules into a machine-readable format.
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Find more details in the articles below.
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Finland and Estonia
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The Finnish and Estonian demonstrations provide an extraordinary opportunity to test parts of the ACCORD semantic framework with two regulation bases and different permitting and compliance-checking software. The results will reveal the value of a common framework approach with national application in practice, targeting the scalability of ACCORD-framework-based services.
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Germany
The German demonstration will focus on automating compliance checking for three uses cases arising for the renovation, adaptive reuse, and new planning of buildings in the area of the former Airport Berlin Tegel: (1) Land use permit, (2) Environmental compliance and (3) Building permitting for industrialised timber construction systems.
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United Kingdom
The UK demonstration will focus on automating the compliance checking of the design integrity of structural components for steel modular houses. Three standards are in focus: 1) EN 1990. Eurocode 0: Basis of Design, 2) EN 1991. Eurocode 1: Actions on Structures and 3) EN 1993-1-1. Eurocode 3: Design of Steel Structures.
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Spain
The Spanish demonstration will focus on automating the checking of compliance with urban regulations, including dangerous materials and coastal law, for major works licenses in a municipality in Spain. The permitting process will be applicable in both public and private buildings in the design and construction stages of the building’s lifecycle, using BIM and cadastre data as the main input data sources.
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Validation
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ACCORD will demonstrate digital permitting and compliance checking processes implemented in European construction projects (Finland, Estonia, Germany, UK and Spain). The demonstrations will validate the ACCORD Semantic Framework and the use of a rule formalisation tool (to be developed) and other software components to be designed.
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ACCORD general results and outcomes
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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.
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ACCORD now and next
- Survey on building permits across Europe - ACCORD has been analysing the complex landscape of built environment compliance checking and permitting across Europe to ascertain the requirements for future digitalisation. We have collected data with a survey on building permits across Europe. Currently, we are analysing the results and later on sharing them with wider interested audiences.
- AS-IS building permit processes in the demonstration countries: Finland, Estonia, the UK, Germany and Spain. These as-is processes will form the basis for the to-be process later modelled. The TO-BE process will be BIM-based and include semi-automatic checking procedures.
- ACCORD Semantic Framework is now being developed. It will be presented to ACCORD’s External Advisory Board, as this is one of the success criteria for meeting ACCORD’s objectives.
- Requirements for digitalising permitting and compliance processes - due and of April. The report analyses the complex landscape of built environment compliance checking and permitting across Europe to ascertain the requirements for future digitalisation.
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Next Newsletter
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- Software solutions for building permitting and compliance
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- Requirements for digitalising permitting and compliance process
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- Planned events and webinars
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