The construction sector is undergoing rapid digital transformation, with increasing adoption of data-driven methods to improve the efficiency, transparency, and sustainability of building design and permitting processes. Despite this progress, regulatory compliance and permitting workflows remain highly fragmented across municipalities and stakeholders, often relying on manual coordination and heterogeneous digital systems. This limits scalability, slows down approval processes, and constrains the adoption of industrialised and sustainable construction approaches.

Within the OIVA (Open Innovation for Verified Automation) project at the University of Twente, we offer an EngD position focused on the design of architectural and interoperability concepts for next-generation digital building permitting ecosystems. The envisioned context is a distributed and federated digital permitting system, where compliance checks are not executed centrally but performed by multiple specialised ...