Malaga City Council is committed to digitalisation in the management of building projects to speed up and reduce the time taken to grant planning permissions. After identifying the need to modernise administrative processes, the council has launched the pilot project "Permisos Digitales de Construcción" (Digital Building Permits), which will be applied in the development areas of Sánchez Blanca and Cortijo Merino.
The project, managed through the Town Planning and Innovation departments of Malaga City Council, seeks to automate the verification and checking of town planning parameters in order to minimise project correction requirements. To this end, the City Council has chosen to implement the solution developed by CYPE. A solution designed on the basis of early project review criteria, which uses open standard formats that ensure the interoperability and durability of the information, and which uses BIM and GIS technologies. In this way, the verification and checking of urban planning parameters is automated, carrying out systematised, automatic and semi-automatic analyses.
The "Permisos Digitales de Construcción" (Digital Building Permits) project is complemented by other measures taken by Malaga City Council to speed up the granting of permits, such as the updating of the ordinance for the processing of urban planning permits and the incorporation of collaborating urban planning entities (EUCA) in the process. In addition, the municipal corporation has established joint actions through agreements with the city's main professional schools to strengthen collaboration between municipal technicians and professionals from the schools.
City councils rely on CYPE to speed up their urban planning procedures
Malaga reflects a global trend towards the digitisation of urban planning departments. This modernisation, driven by solutions such as those developed by CYPE, aims to reduce the bureaucratic burden, improve efficiency and ultimately contribute to cost reduction in the construction industry. CYPE has extensive experience in this type of pilot projects through agreements with other towns and cities.
With its commitment to digitalisation in the management of urban planning licences in order to minimise delays in the granting of licences, CYPE is making its mark internationally. In Madrid, this solution was applied in several areas, such as the Mahou-Calderón and Los Berrocales projects. This allowed for more efficient processing through the use of digital models and BIM methodology.
Similarly, cities such as Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal) and Rennes (France) have launched pilot projects to digitise the licensing process using CYPE technology to streamline procedures and optimise communication between the public administration and professionals in the industry.
Furthermore, in line with EU directives on digitalisation, CYPE has received funding through the CHEK Digital Building Permit project. The main objective of this project is to provide a series of innovative tools to support the modernisation of urban planning authorities and to enable municipal technicians to analyse projects through digital models, automating the verification and checking of urban planning parameters.
