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CHEK: Change Toolkit for Digital Building Permit

Technische Universiteit Delft

Building permits ensure high quality in buildings and city development, through the compliance to city regulations. Such regulations foster EU priorities such as sustainability, beauty and citizens’ safety and well-being, in line with the Renovation Wave Strategy. Today’s building permit issuance is mainly a manual, document-based process. It therefore suffers from low accuracy, low transparency and low efficiency. This leads to delays and errors in planning, design and construction. Several EU countries have developed attempts to push forward the digitalization of building permit procedures, but none of these have led to complete adoption of digital building permit processes within municipalities.

The CHEK project will provide an innovative toolkit supporting the digitalization of building permit issuing and automated compliance checks. The CHEK consortium, coordinated by TU Delft, combines multidisciplinarity (permitting process, BIM, 3D city models, GeoBIM, software development, construction) and multisectoral coverage (research, software development, design, construction, municipalities, and standardization), which allow successfully covering the value chain towards our ambitions.

Prof. dr. Jantien Stoter (TU Delft): “Municipalities are not going to move to a fully digital process right away, but we are developing tools so that they can move towards it step-by-step.”

Impact
CHEKs ambition was to take away barriers for municipalities to adopt digital building permit processes by developing, connecting, and aligning scalable solutions for regulatory and policy context, for open standards and interoperability for closing knowledge gaps through education, for renewed municipal processes, and for technology deployment in order to reach TRL 7. CHEK provided an innovative kit of both methodological and technical tools to digitize building permitting and automated compliance checks on building designs & renovations in European urban areas and regions. This kit consists of several components, for exmaple: 

  1. digital building permit process including a model for the maturity assessment of the digitalization of the building permit process by building authorities; 
  2. a virtual assistant for the management of the digitalisation and;
  3. a process management platform to guide the process and manage the data in the DBP process.

More info: https://chekdbp.eu/

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