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Towards Digital Building Permits: a review of European strategies and relevant literature

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  • Silvia Mastrolembo Ventura
Silvia Mastrolembo Ventura
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Architettura, Territorio, Ambiente e di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/techne-17372

Published 2025-11-07

Keywords

  • Twin transition,
  • Digitalisation,
  • Building permit process,
  • Building information modelling,
  • GeoBIM

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Mastrolembo Ventura, S. (2025). Towards Digital Building Permits: a review of European strategies and relevant literature. TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, (30), 279–287. https://doi.org/10.36253/techne-17372

Copyright (c) 2025 Silvia Mastrolembo Ventura

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Abstract

The European Union (EU) has identified the digitalisation of the building permit (DBP) process as strategic to the twin digital and green transition of the construction ecosystem, enhancing transparency and collaboration along the entire value chain by a data-driven approach. In 2021, under the Horizon Europe programme, three innovation actions (DigiChecks, ACCORD, CHEK) were funded to investigate the synergy between processes, human resources, and advanced technology in DBP, providing system prototype demonstrations in operational environments. The research outlines the objectives of the three projects, contextualising them within the international literature through a bibliometric analysis, and highlighting the main emerging research topics.

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