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Apply for building authority approval

  • Service description

    The Building Regulations Office monitors compliance with public building law on behalf of the legislator. This results in the following tasks for the building regulations office:

    • Examination of building applications
    • Issuing building permits
    • Answering preliminary building enquiries
    • Structural testing and other structural verifications including monitoring
    • Testing of special constructions
    • Participation in the fire inspection
    • Editing contradictions
    • Regulatory measures within the scope of building supervision
    • Registering building encumbrances and maintaining the register of building encumbrances

  • Who should I contact?

    Please contact the State Administration Office.

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