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    Urban Planning: Digital Building Permits Platforms

    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 introduction to the XPlanung and…


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    LDAC 2023: Advancing Linked Building Data

    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 and visionaries and played a…


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    ACCORD at Building Digital Twin International Congress 3.5.2023

    ACCORD at Building Digital Twin International Congress 3.5.2023

    ACCORD will held a workshop on digital building permitting with ACCORD’s sister projects DigiChecks and CHEK at the Building Digital Twin International Congress on 3rd of May, 2023 in Antwerpen, Belgium. Title “TO-BE Process for Digital Automated Building Permit” Preliminary agenda of the to-be process workshop (facilitated by Judith Fauth, EUnet4DBP) at 9-10:30 am CET…


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    Requirements for digitalising permitting and compliance processes

    ACCORD is currently working on its first technical report on “Requirements for digitalising permitting and compliance processes”, which will be ready at the end of April. The report analyses the complex landscape of build environment compliance checking and permitting across Europe to ascertain the requirements for future digitalization.


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    ACCORD at Finnish Building Permit Community

    ACCORD at Finnish Building Permit Community

    ACCORD presented the early analysis of the Finnish answers to a survey on building permitting in a meeting on the 14th of February 2023.


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    ACCORD at the buildingSMART Regulatory Room Open House

    ACCORD at the buildingSMART Regulatory Room Open House

    ACCORD participated in the ”Towards automated regulatory compliance in the EU” Open House organized by the buildingSMART Regulatory Room on 26th of January 2023. You can watch the Horizon Europe sister projects’ (ACCORD, DigiChecks and CHEK) presentations and discussion on automating building permitting on Youtube. The presenters were Rita Lavikka from ACCORD, Francesca Noardo from…


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    ACCORD at the SmartBuilt4EU regional workshop

    ACCORD at the SmartBuilt4EU regional workshop

    ACCORD participated in SmartBuilt4EU regional workshop on “Smart buildings and the Smart Readiness Indicator: EU status update and next steps in Finland” on 22nd of November 2022. The workshop proposed a status update on the testing and implementation of the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) across Europe, with an outline of the supporting framework and activities…


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    ACCORD at the European Network for Digital Building Permits – Eunet4DBP

    ACCORD at the European Network for Digital Building Permits – Eunet4DBP

    ACCORD participated in the European Network for Digital Building Permits – EUnet4DBP open meeting on 4th of November 2022. The topic of the meeting was “New projects on Digital Building Permit”, and in addition to ACCORD (Rita Lavikka), its sister projects – DigiChecks (Ignacio Rincòn) and CHEK (Francesca Noardo) – presented themselves. Also, BRISE Vienna…


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    ACCORD at the High-Level Construction Forum (HLCF)

    ACCORD at the High-Level Construction Forum (HLCF)

    ACCORD participated in the High-Level Construction Forum (HLCF) meeting on 20th of October, 2022 with ACCORD’s sister projects DigiChecks and CHEK to support the co-creation process toward a green, digital, and resilient construction ecosystem. The meeting was organised by the European Commission. The Horizon Europe sister projects were presented by Rita Lavikka (ACCORD, VTT), Francesca…


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    ACCORD at the Finnish Round Table on dataflows in the real estate and construction sector

    ACCORD at the Finnish Round Table on dataflows in the real estate and construction sector

    VTT presented the ACCORD project in the Finnish Round Table I “Which bottlenecks prevent the flow of data in the real estate and construction sector”, which was held in Helsinki, Maria01 on the 22nd of September 2022. The roundtable was organised together by Rakennustieto (Building Information), The Building Information Foundation RTS, buildingSMART Finland, KIRAHub, Green…


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    ACCORD at WDBE2022

    ACCORD at WDBE2022

    ACCORD participated in the WDBE2022 hybrid (face-to-face & online) session “The (R)evolution of the Building Permit Process – From Paper to Digital to BIM” at the World of Digital Built Environment (WDBE) Summit on September 29th, 2022 in Tallinn. The session was co-organised by EU BIM Task Group co-chairs Jaan Saar and Milena Feustel and…


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    Digital Permit in DG GROW

    Digital Permit in DG GROW

    The High-Level Construction Forum is currently organising two webinars on Innovation in Construction that will take place on the 19 and 20 of October 2022. ACCORD will be presented on the 20th Oct. The project will be outlined by Rita Lavikka (VTT) that is coordinating the whole activity. The event will be divided into two…


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    Accord is Launched

    Accord is Launched

    Digital Permit in DG GROW The High-Level Construction Forum is currently organising two webinars on Innovation in Construction that will take place on the 19 and 20 of October 2022. We would like to invite you in your quality of Project Coordinator of ACCORD to participate as a panellist for the panel on Digitalisation and…


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