Building Act
The Building Act will be divided into two parts at the beginning of 2025. The new laws are called the Land Use Act and the Building Act. The Building Act aims to combat climate change, promote the circular economy, streamline construction, improve the assessment of the life expectancy of the building stock, and support the digitalization of the built environment.
2025
The new Building Act 751/2023 will come into force on January 1, 2025.
If an information model has been created for the plan, it will be submitted with the permit application (in IFC information model format) to the building control authority. Building control authorities are required to accept information models with the building permit application, even though the inspection and validation processes for the information model are not yet in use.
2026
On January 1, 2026, the Model-Based Permit Procedure and related regulations will come into force.
The parts of the Building Act that come into force on January 1, 2026, require that the permit must be applied for using an information model or other machine-readable main drawings. The regulations will specify in more detail what is meant by "other machine-readable format." The content requirements for the information model will likely change to the level of main drawings. According to the law, a final as-built model must still be created at the end of the construction project. The new bill mentions the necessity of the IFC model if it is a new construction or a major renovation of an existing building.
The regulation to be submitted for comments will stipulate the information model format for construction plans, the content of special plans' information models, and the machine-readable data of building plans and special plans. The regulation aims to guide project initiators, designers, and building control authorities so that the information model plans and other data submitted according to the Building Act are uniform and meet the requirements of the law.
Municipalities' own guidelines must also be taken into account. Several municipalities have already published their own information model guidelines