Conceptual Framework for Building Permit Process Modeling: Lessons Learned from a Comparison between Germany and the United States regarding the As-Is Building Permit Processes

Buildings

Lucio Soibelman¹  Judith Fauth² 

[1] Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA;Department of Construction Engineering and Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 99423 Weimar, Germany;

关键词: building permit;    process modeling;    comparison;    lessons learned;   

DOI  :  10.3390/buildings12050638

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Without a building permit, a construction project cannot be legally implemented. For this, the building project must undergo a review process by the competent authority. As the number of building projects to be inspected increases, building authorities are faced with ever greater challenges, due to the lack of adequate personnel to manage the inefficient, labor extensive, and lengthy building permit process. In-depth scientific studies of the existing building permit processes are missing so far. This paper introduces a proposed framework that aims to investigate and compare the building permit processes in Germany and in the United States of America (USA). Among other things, the processes are studied for both by-right and non-by-right cases. In doing so, the data are based on a collected empirical study in the form of qualitative expert interviews. The findings of the comparison provide a detailed description and illustration of the current building permit processes, as well as the lessons learned from both countries.

【 授权许可】

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