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New Paper about Augmented Reality in the Hearing of a Building Authority Process published

Harald Urban, Gabriel Pelikan, Konstantin Höbart, Christian Schranz and Alexander Gerger have published a paper on the use of Augmented Reality in the Building Authority Process focusing on the hearing process in the scientific journal "Building Research & Information".

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Neighbours are accorded a specific status and play a vital role in the building permit process in certain countries. They can review their rights during a plan checking process, which summarizes the statement period and hearing. However, these sub-processes have so far received little attention in the digital building permit processes. This paper thus proposes a transformation of the hearing process in Vienna, Austria, which is necessary for an openBIM permit, and analyses the impact on the stakeholders involved. Therefore, an augmented reality (AR) platform was developed based on prior research. A case study was then conducted to document the effects of AR-supported hearings and compare them with the conventional approach. The results of the case study illustrate the potential of AR to optimize hearings. Specifically, the utilization of AR has been found to significantly enhance spatial understanding.

The full publication can be found here:

https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2025.2575046