Project description
Digital building-permitting solutions for a climate-neutral future
To support the design of climate-neutral buildings and promote a sustainable built environment – all in line with the EU Green Deal and the new European Bauhaus initiative – it is necessary to digitalise permitting and compliance processes. It is also important to ensure the processes are human-centred, cost-effective and transparent. This is the aim of the EU-funded ACCORD project, which will develop and integrate technical solutions for automating compliance checking of buildings in their design, construction and renovation/demolition life cycle phases. The project will rely on open and neutral data exchange standards. The solutions will be implemented and demonstrated across construction projects in various EU regulatory contexts: the United Kingdom, Finland, Estonia, Germany and Spain.
Objective
ACCORD's objective is to digitalise permitting and compliance processes using BIM and other data sources to improve the productivity and quality of design and construction processes, support the design of climate-neutral buildings and advance a sustainable built environment in line with the EU Green Deal and new European Bauhaus initiative. These digitized processes must be human-centred, transparent and cost-effective for the permit applicants and authorities. Another objective is to develop and integrate technical solutions for automating compliance checking of buildings in their design, construction and renovation/demolition lifecycle phases. All this will be based on open and neutral data exchange standards.
ACCORD will develop a semantic framework for European digital building permitting processes, regulations, data and tools. This framework will drive rule formalization and integration of existing compliance tools as microservices. Solutions and tools are to be developed, providing consistency, interoperability and reliability with national regulatory frameworks, processes and standards. The solutions are implemented and demonstrated across construction projects in various EU regulatory contexts: UK, Finland, Estonia, Germany and Spain.
ACCORD supports work programme KSOs, expected outcomes and impacts by 1) developing open APIs allowing local authorities to choose their digital services without a lock-in, 2) automating the checking of environmental regulations (CO2 emissions, LCA and circular economy) by developing machine-readable rules, thus steering the digital and green transition, and involving relevant stakeholders through co-creation, and 3) creating information guidelines for structured data models to increase the value of buildings and reduce their operating costs and 4) providing the open ACCORD framework based on microservices allowing businesses to connect and develop solutions resulting in a scalable, durable and flexible permitting ecosystem.
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02150 Espoo
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Participants (19)
80686 Munchen
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56070 Koblenz
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3001 Leuven
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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10122 Tallinn
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20095 Hamburg
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08380 Malgrat De Mar
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1700 SOFIA
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00180 Helsinki
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8041 BK ZWOLLE
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50136 Firenze
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91120 Palaiseau
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08018 Barcelona
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08022 Barcelona
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551 11 JONKOPING
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33100 Tampere
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13405 Berlin
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551 11 Jonkoping
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10117 TALLINN
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CF24 0DE Cardiff
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B5 5JU Birmingham
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CB25 9AU Cambridge
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