Construction Data Space for Building Permit Management

Abstract: Building permit management involves complex compliance checking processes mainly performed today by sharing documents between stakeholders and reviewing them manually. This causes long delays in obtaining permits. Based on the DigiPLACE Reference Architecture Framework for digital construction platform, this paper presents the DigiChecks Framework, a novel approach to digitize and automate building permit management based on the orchestration of compliance checks and a data space, a distributed and open infrastructure for interoperable, trusted and sovereign data sharing between platforms of different stakeholders. The DigiChecks Framework reduces data sharing and compliance checking efforts, while it ensures strict compliance with existing regulations.