The third project in this series concerns the communication process that takes place around building permits. While the Dutch government has initiated projects to digitally deal with the formal procedure of requesting and approving building permits, these really focus on handling the forms in a digital manner and providing an online office for filling in and handing in the required documents.
In this project, we aim to investigate the contents of the communication: what is required to get a permission to build, does it really make sense to ask that information, what else could be provided that would improve the process and the quality of buildings? An example is the availability in many CAD software of information regarding the performance of the building in terms of daylight, insulation, fire safety, etc. Having more structured access to this kind of information, public services could be established that provide online code checking.