Opportunities presented by georeferencing of building registers

Abstract

The drafting of the Building Assessment Report (IEE) as a requirement to request funding for conservation works, universal accessibility or energy efficiency, and the financial support for the draft of the IEE itself have meant a relevant encouragement for its implementation. An improvement has also been achieved regarding the national and regional regulation on the creation of registration bodies which integrate the information contained in the IEE, in order to be publicly consulted. The interest of the Administration in developing computer tools that register and geographically reference information on the condition of buildings is essential to propose realistic policies of housing, urban rehabilitation and urban regeneration, and also constitute very useful databases to carry out subsequent research work. In this work, several recent examples of housing registers and observatories are presented and analyzed, showing the potential and interest that they present.