Gyeonggi Province Selects Hwaseong City as Outstanding Architectural Administration Agency for 2017

Hwaseong City has been selected as the local government that best implemented architectural administration in the 2017 Gyeonggi Province Architectural Administration Soundness Evaluation.

Gyeonggi Province announced on the 12th that following an evaluation of 31 cities and counties on 18 items including outstanding policies such as green building activation, resident convenience, and system improvement, as well as architectural administration handling practices, Hwaseong City won the grand prize, while Ansan City and Goyang City received the top excellence award, and Yongin City and Paju City each received the excellence award.

The Architectural Administration Soundness Evaluation is a system for assessing and awarding the architectural administration promotion status of 31 cities and counties in accordance with Article 78 of the Building Act. The province organized a joint evaluation team with private experts and conducted the evaluation from November 23rd.

Hwaseong City received high scores for architectural administration handling practices, which evaluate compliance with processing timeframes for various permits and licenses, as well as outstanding policies such as support for small multi-family housing and mobile architectural education classes.

Ansan City earned favorable evaluation for promoting green building activation by conducting joint heat loss surveys and providing support with experts to improve energy efficiency in existing buildings, and hosting conferences for university students and youth. Goyang City received good evaluation for its SNS communication policy that disseminates construction information to contractors and supervisors to establish a safety management response system at large construction sites.

Gwangju City adopted an outstanding policy by providing online search services for road confirmation information under the Building Act (road register notice content) that residents previously had to inquire about at public institutions, thereby enhancing both public convenience and work efficiency.

Baek Won-guk, director of the Gyeonggi Province Urban and Housing Division, stated, "The province's architectural administration soundness evaluation examines outstanding policies such as resident convenience provision and regulatory improvement, as well as the operational status of architectural administration," and added, "Going forward, we will encourage outstanding policies and architectural administration to be promoted from the residents' perspective."

Meanwhile, the province plans to disseminate outstanding cases discovered in this evaluation to each city and county, award organizational commendations to the top five cities that contributed to architectural administration soundness, and present Gyeonggi Province governor commendations to civil servants from 10 cities and counties and local architects affiliated with the top five cities and counties.