HackaThon Challenge

Digitizing the Permit Process

Challenge:

Our hackathon will seek to expand the functionality of digital permitting systems by leveraging the lessons learned in developing the DOE sponsored residential solar online SolarApp and implemented under California Senate Bill 379.

Goal:

Accelerate the processing of building permits by expanding online permitting for all building permits, that incorporates the solar component utilizing SolarApp.

Improve access to innovative financial products and services for finance, insurance and surety made possible by the digital ecosystem based on XBRL.

How:

Leverage and align with other similar data initiatives that seek to enable next generation infrastructure; California AB-1037 Infrastructure construction - digital construction management technologies, Caltrans BIM for Infrastructure (BIM4I), DOT Accelerating Advanced Digital Construction Management Systems program, DOE Orange Button, Solar and SBA XBRL Initiatives and DOGE Section Four.

Background:

The Orange Button was part of the DOE SunShot program and the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel - Priority Action Plan 25 (SGIP PAP25) which expanded the XBRL taxonomy with data elements for next generation infrastructure.

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Rebuild LA - AEC Hackathon

Event by AEC Hackathon

Jun 20, 2025, 5:00 PM - Jun 22, 2025, 5:00 PM

Southern California Institute of Architecture

960 E 3rd St

Los Angeles, California 90013

LinkedIn/ Eventbrite

February 28, 2025

Institute For Applied Economics

Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation

Impact of 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires and Comparative Study

March 3, 2025

UCLA Anderson School of Management

Economic Impact of the Los Angeles Wildfires

LA County Recovers

SolarApp

Presidential Memoranda - Updating Permitting Technology

From the Permitting Innovation Center Website:

On April 15, 2025, President Trump signed the Presidential Memorandum, Updating Permitting Technology for the 21st Century to address the lack of transparency, fragmented data management, and outdated technology in the Federal environmental review and permitting process.

The Presidential Memorandum calls on the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to establish a Permitting Innovation Center and develop a Permitting Technology Action Plan to leverage modern technology to effectively, efficiently, and expeditiously navigate the Federal environmental review and permitting process for infrastructure projects.

This Permitting Technology Action Plan will guide the government-wide implementation of 21st-century technology to eliminate needless delays to important infrastructure projects, protecting the economic well-being and welfare of the American people.