Gwangmyeong Recognized as 'Leading City in Architectural Administration'

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Yoo Je-sung] Gwangmyeong has been recognized for its capabilities as a 'leading city in architectural administration.'

The city was selected as an outstanding local government in the general category of the '2025 Architectural Administration Evaluation' overseen by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) and received the Minister's Award, it announced on the 26th.

The Architectural Administration Evaluation is an assessment conducted annually by MOLIT since 1999 targeting local governments nationwide. It is divided into a general category that evaluates overall architectural administration including △rationality of building permit and notification processes, convenience of civil complaint handling, and building safety management levels, and a special category that selects outstanding cases by varying themes according to government policy directions each year.

The city received excellent evaluations in △clarity and consistency of architectural review standards, △enhancement of administrative credibility through shortening building permit and approval processing times, △institutional infrastructure improvements such as enactment and revision of building management ordinances, and △improvement of building regular inspection implementation rates and establishment of safety management systems, securing first place among 31 cities and counties in Gyeonggi Province in the general category.

In particular, the city stood out for its proactive efforts to link architectural administration with environmental and climate policies, including continuous in-house training for civil servants to promote green buildings and establishing carbon emissions data and management platforms for the building sector.

This is significant in that the city is constructing a future-oriented architectural administration model that goes beyond simple permit administration to consider full-cycle building management and carbon neutrality, according to evaluations.

Meanwhile, the city plans to continue strengthening the speed and transparency of building permit services and progressively advance its pioneering architectural administration system linking building safety management and green building policies.

Mayor Park Seung-won stated, "This award is the result of consistent improvement by recognizing architectural administration not as a mere procedure but as a core public service that protects citizen safety and quality of life," and added, "Going forward, we will pursue architectural administration that responds to changing building environments and citizen expectations."