CRITERIA FOR SELECTING JURISDICTIONS TO FIELD TEST THE ALLIANCE GUIDE TO STREAMLINING THE BUILDING REGULATORY PROCESS THROUGH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Objective of Project:

Field test the Alliance’s "Guide to Streamlining the Building Regulatory Process Through the Adoption and Use of Information Technology," to assure that it will be a useful tool to help different size jurisdictions consider and then take action to streamline their building regulatory process.

CRITERIA:

  1. Jurisdiction must be in the process of making a decision to apply information technology to one or more of its building codes administration and/or enforcement processes.
  2. Jurisdiction’s demographics must provide a good example of population (see 7 below regarding population) and must have a good mix of active construction (residential, commercial, industrial, etc).
  3. Jurisdiction must be able to commit building department and other staff to review and comment on Alliance "How To" Guide.
  4. Jurisdiction must be able to work as a test site within the time frames set for this project.
  5. Jurisdiction must have access to nearby jurisdiction(s) that have undergone successful application of information technology to one or more building regulatory processes.
  6. Jurisdiction with possible homeland security – natural or manmade disaster – impetus to streamlining effort.
  7. The jurisdictions selected must collectively offer an appropriate range of sizes (large, medium, small population), a representative mix of rural, urban, and suburban communities, and cover various regions of country (e.g. NE/S/MW/W).
  8. Jurisdiction must be willing to work with the Alliance to document both the beginning state of the process, and the resulting benefits for a period of at least 1 year following successful implementation of I.T. streamlining measures.
  9. Jurisdiction must be willing to share experiences (both good and bad) with the public through a lessons learned document.