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ACCORD Digital Building Permit and Logbook Workshop at Sustainable Places 2024
Digital building logbooks and permit processes have the potential to make the building permit application process in municipalities more efficient, faster and more transparent. They also allow for more accurate planning and efficient use of resources, reducing waste and improving energy management in buildings. On the other hand, there are

ACCORD e-learning hub
ACCORD project e-learning hub provides a series of training videos on digital building permits. The training materials cover topics such as the semantics and the rule formalisation tools, the digital building permits processes, methodologies and tools developed in the framework of the ACCORD project. The training videos are the starting

Digital Building Permit Ontology Released
Target: General industry audience, low-technical, Aim: Introduce AEC3PO – what, why and how to use. At the beginning of 2024, Accord project released the digital building permit ontology called Architecture Engineering and Construction Compliance Checking and Permitting Ontology [https://github.com/Accord-Project/aec3po.]. The Architecture Engineering and Construction Compliance Checking and Permitting Ontology (AEC3PO)

Building Compliance in Digitalised Ecosystem
Target: General industry audience, low-technical Aim: Introduce digitalisation methodology described in D2.2– what, why and how to use Digital transformation of the construction and urban planning regulation compliance processes is the aim of the ACCORD research project focusing on the digital building compliance. It focuses on the technology-driven aspects of

Urban Planning: Digital Building Permits Platforms
Building and Urban Planning day in DataWeek Accord Project has been prominently represented in the DataWeek event in Leipzig co-organised by the Open Geospatial Consortium and the GEOE3 project. Specifically, Katja Breitenfelder from Fraunhofer participated in a session focused on “Urban Planning: Digital Building Permits Platforms.” and Kai-Uwe Krause from XLeitstelle Hamburg gave an

LDAC 2023: Advancing Linked Building Data
Why LDAC The Linked Data in Architecture and Construction (LDAC) 2023 conference was a nexus of innovation, collaboration, and cutting-edge research, captivating the minds of professionals and enthusiasts in architecture and linked building data domains. Within this vibrant environment, ONTOText, Birmingham City University and BuildingSmartInternational joined a collective of experts

Newsletter history
1st Newsletter – pilots and processes – cases from various countries covering construction integrity, spatial planning, material performance
2nd Newsletter - digital building permit state of art and future
3nd Newsletter - Software solutions for building permitting and compliance.
4th Newsletter - Transformation Pathways towards Digital Permitting Processes
5th Newsletter -Empowering the Digital Transition in Building Permits