Herten, March 7, 2025 – Together with Prosoz Herten GmbH, we are expanding our strategic partnership into a long-term cooperation.
With their signatures and a handshake, Arne Baltissen, Managing Director of Prosoz, and André Vonthron, Managing Director of VSK Software GmbH, today reaffirmed their shared goal of establishing BIM as a standard in building permit procedures by 2030. Our joint mission is to transform building permit processes through automated, BIM-based checks and significantly advance digitalization in building authorities.
Prosoz is Germany’s largest provider of specialized software for building authorities and has long recognized the potential of Building Information Modeling (BIM).
BIM enables the automated checking of building permit applications for completeness and compliance with applicable building regulations.
“Automation and BIM models make work easier for everyone involved and significantly reduce the amount of manual checking required.”
— André Vonthron, Managing Director, VSK Software GmbH
Detailed digital models allow planning errors to be identified and corrected at an early stage. This improves the quality of submissions and reduces delays. BIM also facilitates collaboration among all stakeholders, as relevant information is available in a central model. BIM models can be integrated into existing administrative software systems and platforms, making data exchange easier and accelerating the approval process.
“The checking system makes it possible to represent formal and technical requirements in a machine-readable format, enabling automated checks for completeness and compliance with building regulations.” – Marcel Stepien, Technical Director, VSK Software GmbH
Working closely with its customers, Prosoz has developed a customized solution based on BIM.permit. The solution is being made available to pilot users before its planned launch in mid-2025 as an additional module for ProBAUG and Prosoz elan comfort, available to all building authorities.
“By integrating automated checks of building models against state-specific regulations, we are ushering in the next stage in the evolution of building permit procedures. Thanks to our partnership with VSK Software, manual checking processes will be automated directly within our ProBAUG software. This will benefit not only our users but also applicants, who will be able to obtain their building permits more quickly.”
– Daniel Hoffmann, Product Manager, Prosoz
By integrating BIM, Prosoz is setting new standards and actively contributing to the modernization and digitalization of building authorities.
Special thanks go to everyone involved whose expertise and commitment contributed to the successful development of this solution. Close collaboration has made it possible to create a practical, forward-looking solution tailored specifically to the requirements of building authorities.
“By introducing BIM, we are making a significant joint contribution to accelerating building permit procedures while fulfilling our public mandate to support a modern, digital state.”
– Dennis Miller, Head of the Building and Environment Business Unit, Prosoz
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This article was originally published in German on March 7, 2025. All quotations have been translated from German into English.