The BIM-Based Building Permit Process: Factors Affecting Adoption

Public organizations responsible for building permits are increasingly considering the potential applications of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in their workflows, but BIM adoption still remains a complex challenge. This research aims to investigate the factors affecting BIM adoption for building permits through a case study of a public organization currently developing and piloting a BIM-based building permit process. A thematic analysis of semi-structured interview data revealed ten factors that influence BIM adoption for building permits: complexity (in both development and use) of a BIM-based building permit system; relative advantages/disadvantages of BIM for building permits; the existing building permit system; management support for a BIM-based building permit process; organizational culture; BIM awareness; training and learning; available expertise for a BIM-based building permit process; external pressure; and legal context. The findings are important for public authorities’ understanding of both the enablers and challenges of the BIM-based building permit process, and have practical implications for professionals in public authorities in particular, and also the Architecture Engineering Construction/Facilities Management (AEC/FM) industry in general, to guide their steps towards adopting BIM. This research also highlights the potential benefits of BIM adoption for the building permit process.

Erosion of Professional Integrity: The Collapse of the Canterbury TV Building in Christchurch on 22 February 2011

From 4 September 2010 on, a series of earthquakes shattered New Zealand for more than one year the most devastating of which caused the Canterbury TV (CTV) building in downtown Christchurch to collapse on 22 February 2011. One hundred and fifteen people were killed. A Royal Commission found out that, in 1986, the Christchurch City Council (CCC) had granted a building permit despite concerns about structural design issues. Moreover, the authority did not insist on structural analyses of the building after the initial earthquake of 4 September 2010. Thorough investigations after the disaster of 22 February 2011 revealed that the early concerns about insufficient joints between floors and shear walls had been entirely justified since the failure of the joints, according to all likelihood, had triggered the collapse of the building.

Community Perspectives on the Implementation of Building Permits (IMB) for Environmental Sustainability in South Jakarta, Indonesia

Building construction will increase along with the increase in population in urban areas. For maintaining the carrying capacity of the environment to remain in balance, it is necessary to have a control instrument in the development of urban areas, one of which is through a Building Permit (IMB). To increase the effectiveness of the policy for implementing the IMB, it is essential to know the public’s perception of the IMB and experts regarding their views. Through interviews, questionnaires, spatial analysis, and AHP, this research is expected to be a material consideration for stakeholders in deciding policies for implementing IMB in South Jakarta. Spatial analysis was used to compare land cover, questionnaires were used to see people’s perceptions of building permits as an instrument for controlling and protecting urban areas, and AHP was used to validate the expert team’s opinion regarding IMB. The increase in green land in South Jakarta, the perception of public awareness in South Jakarta regarding the obligation to build a IMB and its impact on the environment is still high, and the accountability factor of the implementing licensing organization is one of the factors that can increase the effectiveness of the application of a building permit (IMB) in South Jakarta.

The Eye Is Not Enough

As shown in Chapter 3, nonelected officials can and often do abuse their power. Hence, the question: under what conditions can anticorruption audits improve government accountability? In order to approach an answer, in this chapter, I describe a field experiment that relied on a unique collaboration with the city government of Querétaro in central Mexico. Fifty building permit applications were randomly assigned to enter into an experimental group. The officials responsible for reviewing the permits were made aware that, as an independent auditor, I was carefully examining all the physical documentation for applications within this group. The same permit reviewers did not realize that another set of fifty randomly selected permit applications were part of a comparison group and, thus, also subject to my scrutiny. This design tests whether permit reviewers improve their behavior when exposed to outside scrutiny. With implications for corruption control, the study’s results reveal that monitoring spurs greater diligence and stringency among officials, but only when they sense the risk of a top-down sanction. The eye is only effective when accompanied by a whip.

Spatial spillover effects of crime on private investment at nearby micro-places

Criminal activity may influence the decisions of existing property owners or prospective investors to invest in a property, given the potential elevated expenses and increased uncertainty that often accompany crime. This study investigates the relationship between crime and private investment at nearby micro-places using location-specific crime incident and building permit data from 2008 to 2018 in the cities of Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Antonio and Seattle. Data were aggregated to the blockface-level to examine how changes in investment on a blockface are influenced by changes in crime on that blockface and adjacent blockfaces in the subsequent year. Results indicate that an increase in total crime on a blockface was associated with a significant decrease in building permit activity the following year in all six cities, but the relationship is less strong when aggregating crime from adjacent blockfaces. When looking at spillover effects, higher crime on adjacent blockfaces was significantly associated with lower levels of investment beyond the effect of the crime trend on that blockface in Los Angeles and San Antonio. Though the relationship between adjacent blockface crime and investment was negative across the other four cities, it was not statistically significant. Taken together, these findings suggest that effective targeted crime prevention policies may have the added benefit of spurring local economic investment and that the impact of crime is very localised.

Problems of illegal construction of real estate objects on the example of Krasnodar Territory

At present, the unauthorized occupation of land plots without a building permit, unauthorized seizure or non-compliance with the parameters of the permitted use of land in a number of regions of the country has the most significant problems in the land management system. The research presented in the article clearly shows the types of violations in the field of land legislation in the field of registered cases of unauthorized objects on the example of municipalities of the Krasnodar Territory. The ways of solving the problem of preventing and suppressing the facts of unauthorized construction are proposed.

Analysis of the Quality of One Stop Services for Building Construction Permits (IMB) in Bogor Regency

One of the bad services in Indonesia is the building permit or IMB and other related permits. In general, the One Stop Integrated Service Investment Service serves various permits, such as: IMB, Advertising Permit, Disturbance Permit, Construction Service Business Permit, and Trade Permit. In reality, there are still various criticisms and complaints from the public regarding public services provided by the One Stop Integrated Licensing Service Agency, which of course will greatly affect the image of the government in the eyes of the community. People always want to get fast, easy and cheap service. The reality is that in Bogor Regency, building permit services are still a public complaint. The fact that is happening at this time, there are still weaknesses which in general, in this case in the form of government apparatus services that have not been effective. The analysis knife used is the service theory according to Denhardt and Denhardt. This research method uses a qualitative approach with descriptive methods. The results showed that the quality of the One Stop Building Permit (IMB) Integrated Service in Bogor Regency has been running quite well, starting from adequate facilities and infrastructure starting from the strategic location of the building and can be reached by public transportation, providing satisfactory services from employees, there is an online permit arrangement and a special room for breastfeeding mothers, as a whole, the infrastructure is sufficient for the convenience of the community, but there are still shortcomings especially in the time the permit processing process is too long,

Inovasi Pelayanan Perizinan Bangunan Gedung 3.0 Di Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta

ABSTRACTInnovation has advanced fast not only in the private sector, but also in the public sector. One of public sector innovations in the field of licensing services in DKI Jakarta Provincial Government is Building Licensing Innovation 3.0 carried out by the Investment Agency and One Stop Integrated Services - DKI Jakarta Provincial Government. The objective of the 3.0 innovation is to speed up the process of completing a building permit (IMB), from 42 working days to 2-3 hours. This study used qualitative research approach with a descriptive research design to provide a clearer and deeper picture of a symptom or phenomenon occured. The data were obtained using observation, interviews, and literature studies with reference to the concept of public service innovation by Windrum (2008). The results indicated that the innovation of building permit services 3.0 in DKI Jakarta Provincial Government is a series of other forms of public sector innovation, although according to the process it does not run simultaneously and the forms of these innovations influence other forms of public sector innovation. ABSTRAKInovasi telah berkembang begitu luas bukan hanya terjadi di sektor swasta, namun juga digunakan di sektor publik. Salah satu contoh inovasi sektor publik di bidang pelayanan perizinan di Pemerintah Provinsi (Provinsi) DKI Jakarta yakni Inovasi Perizinan Bangunan Gedung 3.0 yang dilakukan oleh Dinas Penanaman Modal dan Pelayanan Terpadu Satu Pintu - Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Tujuan inovasi 3.0 tersebut untuk mempercepat proses penyelesaian Izin Mendirikan Bangunan (IMB) yang selama ini dikeluhkan oleh masyarakat karena awalnya dalam menerbitkan IMB memerlukan waktu 42 hari kerja, namun saat ini hanya diperlukan waktu 2-3 jam saja. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskriptif untuk memberikan suatu gambaran yang lebih jelas dan mendalam mengenai suatu gejala atau fenomena yang terjadi. Sumber data penelitian ini menggunakan data primer dan sekunder yakni observasi, wawancara dan studi literatur dengan merujuk pada konsep inovasi pelayanan publik yang dikemukakan oleh (Windrum, 2008). Hasil studi ini menunjukkan bahwa inovasi izin perizinan pelayanan gedung 3.0 di Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta merupakan sekumpulan rangkaian dari bentuk-bentuk inovasi sektor publik lainnya walaupun menurut prosesnya tidak berjalan secara simultan dan bentuk dari inovasi ini saling mempengaruhi bentuk inovasi sektor publik lainnya.