Unveiling the actual progress of Digital Building Permit

Getting awareness through a critical state of the art review

Review (2022)
Author(s)

Francesca Noardo (TU Delft - Urban Data Science)

Dogus Guler (Istanbul Technical University)

Judith Fauth (Bauhaus University Weimar)

Giada Malacarne (Fraunhofer Italia Research, Bolzano)

S. Mastrolembo Ventura (Università di Brescia)

Miguel Azenha (University of Minho)

Per-Ola Olsson (Lund University)

Lennart Senger (Leibniz Universität)

Research Group
Urban Data Science
Copyright
© 2022 F. Noardo, Dogus Guler, Judith Fauth, Giada Malacarne, Silvia Mastrolembo Ventura, Miguel Azenha, Per Ola Olsson, Lennart Senger
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.108854
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Publication Year
2022
Language
English
Copyright
© 2022 F. Noardo, Dogus Guler, Judith Fauth, Giada Malacarne, Silvia Mastrolembo Ventura, Miguel Azenha, Per Ola Olsson, Lennart Senger
Research Group
Urban Data Science
Volume number
213
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Abstract

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.