Requirements for establishing an information system to manage issuing building permits

• Main Author: Mona Mahrous Abdel Wahed
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-04-01
• Series: HBRC Journal
• Subjects: Information system; GIS; Local authority; Building permits
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S168740481500019X

The Egyptian Urban suffers from many negative aspects. This urban deterioration cannot be confined to a specific factor or a single reason, it may be because of the master plans itself, perhaps for reasons related to managing the urban development, or because of the process of issuing building permits, may be that the social environment is the reason, it can also be the financial policies, as well as the efficiency of local administrations employees, and the multiplicity of actors involved in the implementation process and the lack of coordination between them. The processes of development control and issuing building permits are important reasons in the problems facing the urban deterioration. To overcome most of these problems it is important to introduce a powerful technology that can be utilized in issuing building permits. GIS is an excellent choice for managing issuing building permits. The paper proposes a mechanism of an Information System to support and manage the building permits processes. It defines the user requirements and formulates the System Architecture, which identifies the essential components and processes, and their functional relationships. In order to introduce the proposed mechanism the following points were studied: 1. Identify the organizations involved in the process of issuing building permits. 2. Identify the needs and responsibilities of these organizations. 3. Identify the processes, inputs and outputs of each process. 4. Identify the procedural steps for implementing the proposed mechanism.