Change Toolkit for Digital Building Permits

CHEK will address these barriers to the use of DBP: regulatory context, standards and interoperability, knowledge gaps, technology deployment, and need for scalable solutions. CHEK will do this by providing a kit of both methodological and technological tools to fully digitalize building permitting and partially automate compliance checks on building designs which will lead to an improvement of 60% in efficiency and will lead to the uptake of DBP by potentially 85% of municipalities in Europe. At the end of the project, the results will be demonstrated in the working environment of municipalities and designers.

• A completely re-designed organization model will be implemented in the municipalities, in order to shift to a new agile data-driven and digital-based organization.
• CHEK will bring a series of innovative tools, coordinated by a web platform with external connection through OpenAPI based, that will support designers and technicians during the permitting process, improving effectiveness, shortening times and costs for the overall process, and resulting in less errors.
• A game-changing innovation will also be brought into (up/re-)skilling: it will be the first time that such interdisciplinary knowledge, related to DBP, is systematized, coordinated and structured by a balanced multidisciplinary team.
• CHEK will allow modeling specifically formed BIM and 3D city models starting from a clear definition of Regulatory Information Requirements, translated into IFC and CityGML specifications.