Have you ever come across the process of applying for a construction permit? It can be quite burdensome for all parties involved as getting all the necessary checks done manually requires a significant amount of time and effort. The Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications has taken a bold and innovative step of introducing a BIM-based digitalized building permit process in the coming years, thus aiming to increase the productivity of the construction sector.

BIM is a single digital model of a building that includes all the necessary information for architects, engineers, builders, etc. As most of the data is machine-readable, digitalizing the process of reviewing construction permits would save both time and money. Instead of a pile of different construction project documents, all you need is a 3D building information model. Automatic error detection system checks the BIM for possible errors thus allowing the user to make necessary changes already before the application is submitted for manual review.
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Reach-U has teamed up with a Dutch company Future Insight to make all this happen. We will make sure that the integration of the existing business processes and technological platform will be as smooth as possible!

What used to be a small team within Reach-U, has now grown into a fully independent spin-off EyeVi Technologies.
During the years they have already covered most of the roads in Estonia with their 3D mapping technology. They’ve also completed many successful pilot projects across the world, including UK, Finland, USA, Kenya and St Lucia, where the results were beyond expectations. Now it was time for the next step.
Find out how they contributed to the digitization of Finnish road network this summer!