Agentic Building Permit Validation

Reviewing construction plans manually is a labor-intensive process that requires attention to hundreds of building codes and safety regulations. Missing a single detail could result in costly delays, safety risks, or even legal consequences. As projects become more complex, ensuring regulatory compliance becomes more difficult, creating bottlenecks and errors in the planning process.

Our Agentic Building Permit Validation solution uses state-of-the-art Generative AI to automatically extract critical information from highly complex construction blueprints and assess whether designs comply with all relevant building codes and safety standards.

The solution goes far beyond standard retrieval and document extraction with an agentic workflow that can reason against custom, technical constraints proposing solutions akin to an expert. The solution thereby significantly reduces review times, enhances accuracy, and generates actionable decision patterns to help human experts in the loops, such as architects and engineers, to quickly make necessary adjustments.

• Automated Extraction of Plan Details
  The solution extracts key details from multimodal documents like construction plans, including the number and type of rooms, dimensions, ceiling heights, and other critical architectural elements. It can integrate with most custom data sources to process the information in batch or in real-time as uploaded by the user. The extracted information is then cross-referenced by an agentic workflow against the specific safety and building regulations that apply to the project based on its type and location.

• Compliance Reporting
  The solution evaluates whether each part of the design complies with the relevant codes and regulations automatically, using chain-of-thought reasoning and calling tools via custom APIs as required. It generates a report that details which regulations have been met and which have not, providing explanations and direct citations from the building code and plan documentation. The report also includes clear recommendations about necessary adjustments and next steps. This allows subject matter experts who remain in the loop to quickly identify and address compliance issues before construction begins.

• Tailored Evaluation to Company Needs
  The solution is tailored to reflect your company's unique localized permit criteria, strategic goals, budget constraints, applicable regulatory constraints, and technical specifications.

• Interactive Queries
  The AI solution also empowers teams to analyze submitted material interactively - you can create ad-hoc cross-checks and prompt the solution to provide specific summaries and follow-up threads beyond the core reasoning and compliance workflow to facilitate an in-depth understanding of all decision recommendations and issues raised by the system.

This powerful Generative AI solution was built with:

• The system automates the workflow with state-managed agentic reasoning, allowing it to handle complex comparative analysis and constraints effectively, ensuring robust decision-making assistance for procurement teams

• Within the agentic workflow, the solution uses fine-tuned extraction and completion models to accurately identify and extract relevant data from technical documents and generate high-quality decision support reports

• The fine-tuned models are further augmented with bespoke prompt engineering, integrating in-context learning and few-shot learning to improve the accuracy and relevance of the AI’s analysis.

• As required, the solution includes state-of-the-art retrieval augmented generation pipelines to provide seamless, interactive access to vast amounts of documents used during the permit process.