Geobim for Digital Building Permit Process: Learning From a Case Study in Rotterdam

Abstract

Abstract. Among the digitalization processes which are being raised in Europe and in the world, the building permit process is seen as one of the priorities by municipalities, governmental institutions and standardization organizations. However, in current practice, the building permit issuing as well as the integration of geoinformation with BIM (GeoBIM) suffers from a number of complex sub-issues. These issues still remain and prevent the development of successful methodologies. In this paper, the building permit use case is explored within a project in close collaboration with the municipality of Rotterdam. A very specific case study in Rotterdam was selected as a starting point, which allowed us to develop the needed methodology for the implementation of an effective tool. In this paper we highlight the interpretation and formalization of regulation for building height, overhang and tower ratio. While these rules are specific to a zoning plan in Rotterdam, we believe that the methodology and encountered issues in formalizing the rules, applying the rules on delivered models and integrating various data sources (BIM and GIS specifically) are general to most building codes.

Smart Sustainable Cities of the New Millennium: Towards Design for Nature

“…At the landscape scale, the procedure will also permit us to determine the potential of green buildings to become refuges for some species [214][215][216][217][218]. To this respect, thanks to embedded parametric modelling, GeoBIM already allows the comparison of multiple design solutions at the beginning of a project [219] or provide constraints like in the case of building permit [220]. Furthermore, algorithmic and parametric design tools, used in conjunction with the GeoBIM process, would allow to generating alternative solutions [221] stimulating designers creativity [180].…”

Unveiling the Actual Progress of Digital Building Permit: Getting Awareness through a Critical State of the Art Review

“…Almost all studies (full list in Table A.5) aim at converting regulations to a machine-readable format to check the rules using IFC data of the buildings. For example, Noardo et al [70] investigated the rule interpretation regarding building height, overhang and tower ratio in the context of Rotterdam Municipality in the Netherlands. CityGML-based data is also utilized to check compliance of the application against zoning plans [71].…”

“…Many studies focus on developing tools and prototypes for checking Urban Plan, in a GeoBIM perspective. These studies are localized mainly in The Netherlands [70,71,118] and in Sweden [85,105,114,119], while, at commercial level, Spain stands out with the development of the tool Cype Urban [120]. In South Korea, a BIM-based e-submission and automated code compliance checking system for building permitting (KBIM) has been developed with the support of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport [33,90,121].…”

Unveiling the Actual Progress of Digital Building Permit: Getting Awareness through a Critical State of the Art Review

“…Almost all studies (full list in Table A.5) aim at converting regulations to a machinereadable format to check the rules using IFC data of the buildings. For example, Noardo et al [67] investigated the rule interpretation regarding building height, overhang and tower ratio in the context of Rotterdam Municipality in the Netherlands. CityGML-based data is also utilized to check compliance of the application against zoning plans [68].…”

“…Many studies focus on developing tools and prototypes for checking Urban Plan, in a GeoBIM perspective. These studies are localized mainly in The Netherlands [67,68,115] and in Sweden [82,102,111,116], while, at commercial level, Spain stands out with the development of the tool Cype Urban [117]. In South Korea, a BIM-based e-submission and automated code compliance checking system for building permitting (KBIM) has been developed with the support of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport [33,87,118].…”