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We are looking forward to 3 days full of academic, innovative research, pioneering practical applications, and hands-on workshops on digital building permits. The Digital Building Permit Conference 2025 will host

about 30 research presentations showing the newest concepts and developments,
about 15 practice presentations with insights from both the municipality and planner perspectives,
3 workshops on how to start with digital building permits, how to integrate GIS technologies into the digital building permit process, and the scope of zoning and technical regulations,
Conference Dinner at the Vienna City Hall,
visits to the famous Christmas markets at “Karlskirche” and Vienna City Hall.

Workshops at DBP 25

Roll up your sleeves and take part in one of our workshops at DBP 25 to get new insights into important DBP topics and help others with your expert knowledge. If you are interested, please register for the workshops in ConfTool. As the workshops run in parallel, you can only register for one. Presentations will also take place in parallel to the workshops.

How to start with BIM-based permitting?
by Christopher Raitviir and Jaan Saar (EU BIM Task Group)
max. Participants: 30

BIM is used more and more throughout the building lifecycle, especially in the design and construction of built assets. There are a lot of benefits to using BIM but it has so far failed to deliver significant value to municipalities, especially in the building permitting phase. The main challenge is not in the software, technology or standards but in the practical and user-friendly implementation.
During this workshop you will get an understanding of why it makes sense to start using BIM to automate permitting checks, what are the benefits and how to take the first easy steps. We will tackle the opportunities and challenges faced by frontrunners like Estonia and Finland. Key learnings will also be shared from the international ACCORD project.
In the second half of the workshop participants will get an opportunity to apply their learnings in converting real-life regulations into machine executable BIM-checks.

GIS Integration for Digital Building Permits
by Francesca Noardo and Mayte Toscano (Open Geospatial Consortium)
max. Participants: 20

The workshop shows how to integrate GIS technologies into the digital building permit process, highlighting automated geospatial data validation, the use of OGC standards, and the conversion of BIM models to GIS environments. Through practical case studies and interoperable tools, participants will explore how to automate urban planning checks, enrich applications with geospatial context, and facilitate BIM/GIS interoperability to accelerate and improve the reliability of the DBP process.

Built environment: what do we regulate and why? Towards an integrated view of permitting
by Claire Ellul, Nicholas Nisbet, Judith Fauth, Ben Clifford, Mustafa Selçuk Çıdık, and Eyad Jalal
max. Participants: 25

The workshop facilitates a discussion on the scope of zoning and technical regulations — foundational elements that shape the built environment. These rules play a vital role in the regulatory landscape, and this session will explore what we regulate through planning and building codes, why these regulations exist, and how they function in practice — from rule structure and interpretation to enforcement and change over time.
By examining the intersection of zoning and building regulations, this session aims to build a deeper shared understanding of the logic and structure of our regulatory systems — a necessary foundation for enabling more coherent, just, and automation-ready approaches to digital permitting. Whether you’re involved in planning, policy, architecture, or development, this session will offer valuable insights into the systems that govern how we design and build.

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