Interoperable and Sovereign Data Sharing in Building Permit Management Data Space” Gonzalo Gil, Tekniker

Building permit management involves complex compliance checking processes that today are mainly performed by sharing documents between stakeholders and reviewing them manually, which causes long delays in obtaining building permits. Considering the main challenges in digitizing and automating the management of building permits, the Horizon Europe DigiChecks project, based on the DigiPLACE Reference Architecture Framework for building digital platforms in the construction sector, proposes the DigiChecks Framework, a modular and scalable approach to facilitate building permit management based on the orchestration of automatic compliance checks and the novel concept of a data space. The data space, following the path for the digital transformation of the construction industry, provides an open and distributed infrastructure for interoperable, trusted, and sovereign data sharing within the DigiChecks Framework to tackle coordination issues between heterogeneous data from platforms of different stakeholders and to provide control over the data.

To build the data space, the wide variety of initiatives working on the data spaces topic makes it difficult to identify the most suitable approach to ensure interoperable and sovereign data sharing. Furthermore, although these initiatives are aware of the domain-specific aspects of the data, they do not consider them in the data sharing flow. Therefore, it is not possible to ensure interoperability at the data level. Considering these current limitations and based on the benchmark initiatives for building data spaces, this paper presents the approach that we propose within the DigiChecks Framework to ensure interoperable and sovereign data sharing for a data space which aims to facilitate the management of building permits as well as the technical components required to implement it.

Contributing projects:

• DigiChecks
• DigiPLACE

Session Chair:

Gonzalo Gil, Tekniker