In response to peer review feedback, the article underwent several key revisions to enhance clarity and academic rigour. First, the authors incorporated new and relevant literature, including a 2024 study on digital building permits and logbooks, as well as a 2023 paper on digital sustainability in horticulture. These additions aim to strengthen the theoretical foundation and contextual relevance of the study. To address concerns about theoretical depth, the Introduction was revised to provide a more precise explanation of the study’s contribution: a replicable method for mapping digital construction practices to global sustainability targets and identifying DBP and DBL practices that advance sustainable construction and building management. The Discussion and Conclusions sections were expanded to emphasise the unique contribution of the study, namely, the first systematic mapping of Digital Building Permit (DBP) and Digital Building Logbook (DBL) practices to specific UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Methodological transparency was improved by detailing the purposive sampling of experts, the rationale for the four-phase research design, and the tools used (Slido and Miro) for data collection and validation. Clarifications were added regarding the qualitative nature of the study, the absence of data normalisation, and the anonymisation of workshop responses. Language and formatting were also refined. Grammatical errors were corrected, long sentences shortened, and citation formatting reviewed. The figure and the table were verified for proper citation. Finally, the revised Conclusions section now explicitly acknowledges the study’s limitations, including its European focus, the use of single-point-in-time data collection, and the qualitative nature of its findings.

Growing interest is awarded to the digitalization of the building permitting use case and many works are developed about the topic. However, the subject is very complex and many aspects are usually tackled separately, making it very hard for traditional literature reviews to grasp the actual progress in the overall topic. This paper unveils the detailed state of the art in Digital Building Permitting (DBP) by critically analysing the literature by means of a set of coding tags (research progress, implementation, affected DBP workflow steps, ambitions addressed) assigned by a multidisciplinary team. The executed research shows that the mainly addressed aspects of the digitalization of building permit process are the technologies to check the compliance of design proposals against regulations, followed by the digitalization of regulations. Improvable aspects identified in the entire building permit system are instead e.g. the involvement of officers, scalability of solutions and interoperability of data, intended both as data validation and as integration of geospatial data with building models.