ACCORD webinar series

The ACCORD webinar series is designed to be an interactive platform for discussion, feedback, and suggestions between participants and ACCORD partners on the training materials provided. This series consists of three webinars, each focusing on key topics: 

1. ACCORD Digital Building Permits: Semantics and Rule Formalization Processes 
2. ACCORD Digital Building Permit Tools and Methodologies for Municipalities and Professionals 
3. ACCORD Digital Building Permit Pilots: Outcomes for Standardization, Policy Making, and Decision Makers 

Before each webinar, participants will receive a training pack available at ACCORD e-learning hub. We encourage all participants to review the materials in advance and come prepared with questions to engage in discussions with the ACCORD team. 

Find more information about each ACCORD webinar in the link below.

1st webinar.- ACCORD Digital building permits Semantic and rule formalisation processes. 

Date: 06/11/2024 

Hour: 11:00 – 12:00 (CET) 

Target group: IT developers/Scientific Community 

Registration link here 

Pre – webinar preparation 

Participants should watch 1st training pack videos to familiarise themselves with the core concepts. 

• • Estimated Time: 1 hour
  • Content 
    • Video 1: ACCORD AI-RFT tool, AI-powered rule formalisation tool (18m56s)   
    • Video 2: AEC3PO-Architecture, Engineering and Construction Compliance Checking and Permitting Ontology model (1m33s) 
    • Video 3: ACCORD Technical review of existing ontologies, standards and data models for AEC industry (9m46s) 
    • Video 4: ACCORD Digitalisation Methodology for building permits and compliance checking (13m21s)
    • Video 5: ACCORD Semantic Framework (9m53s)
  • Prepare Questions and Discussion Points 

Participants should identify areas where they need clarification or have questions. They can also note points they found particularly interesting or challenging to bring to the discussion.  

• • Webinar agenda 
    • 11:00 Welcome and Overview of the ACCORD 1st training Pack 
    • 11:15 Interactive session 
    • 11:50 Reflection and wrap-up 
    • 12:00 Closure 
  • ACCORD Team  
    • Edlira Vakaj, Associated professor at the Birmingham City University 
    • Hadeel Saadany, Lecture at the Birmingham City University 
    • Thomas Beach, Reader in Construction Informatics at Cardiff University 
    • Thamer Mecharnia, Post-doctorant École des Mines de Saint-Étienne 
    • Goncal Costa, Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering, and a researcher in the Department of Architecture and a member of the Human-Environment Research (HER) group at La Salle ‒ Ramon Llull University (URL). 
    • Larissa De Rosso, Project Officer at the Architects’ Council of Europe