Digitalisation of the process of design review

Digitalisation of the process of design review. The implementation of the building permit process in digital form enables a complete paperless design review. Thereby, both static calculation and construction plans can be reviewed without media discontinuity, which is why an acceleration of the process can be expected. The transition from paper to PDF represents a significant progress for the parties involved. In terms of digitalisation level, it is only the beginning. The highest level of digitalisation will be achieved by using BIM (Building Information Modeling) within Common Data Environments (CDE). Since the BIM method offers significant advantages in the design, construction and operation of buildings, further propagation in the practice can be expected. Moreover, its use is already partly forced by federal and state governments. Impacts on the design review and the issuing of a building permit are therefore to be expected. In this article, it is investigated how digitalised design review processes can be structured. The processes are presented and evaluated in terms of their maturity level of digitalisation. © 2024, Ernst und Sohn. All rights reserved.