BIS webinar archive

BIS webinars organized in 2024

Please note that all training on the use of the Building Information System is currently conducted in Latvian. Therefore, video records and presentations are available only in Latvian. To watch webinar recordings for training sessions held before 2023, please visit the State Construction Control Bureau's YouTube account. Information is translated using ChatGPT service.

01.11.2024. webinar "Current Issues and Updates in BIS"

Webinar Program and Presentation:

• Usability improvements in the BIS authorized user workspace:
  • Portal "header" – new quick access links from the icon bar;
  • "Help" – new options for quick access to help information;
  • System administrator notifications;
  • New navigation section concept – registered user workspace sections;
  • My Information & Profile section – individual user;
  • My Information & Profile section – legal entity;
  • Specialist data section;
  • Notifications section;
  • Construction case section:
    • Working with construction cases – navigation;
    • Working with construction cases – project icons and buttons;
    • Changes in construction log navigation and usability improvements;
  • Operation case section;
  • Home case section.
• Overview of changes in Home Cases after 30.05.2024 amendments to the Apartment Ownership Law:
  • Reorganized survey and re-established general meeting;
  • Changes in apartment owners' contact information.
• Other changes and upcoming improvements.

Informational material for users about changes in the BIS authorized user workspace

23.08.2024. webinar "Current Issues and News in BIS"

Webinar Program and Presentation:

Changes Regarding Cultural Monument Objects and Permit Requests:

• Installation and display of cultural monument and protection zone markers (BISP)
• Changes in preparing applications for cultural monument permits (BISP)
• NKMP Cultural Monument Data Verification (BIS2)
• Display and search options for cultural monument markers in construction cases (BIS2)
• Display and search options for cultural monument markers in operational cases (BIS2)
• Changes in the processing of work assignments for cultural monument (formerly NKMP) permit requests (BIS2)

Other Changes and Improvements:

• Introduction of mobile e-signature in BIS1 and BIS2 modules
• Project manager as responsible for the coordination of project documents
• Changes in the application for notification extension
• Improvements to the BISP user manual and search engine
• Additions to the complaint submission process
• Improvements in the search of construction work journal entries in BIS2

 

20.06.2024. webinar: "Current Issues and News in BIS"

Webinar Program and Presentation:

1. Changes in Specifying Building Data and Determining the Type of Intention
2. Control of Adding Survey Measurements upon Completion of Construction Works
3. Application of Building Project Approval (TNI):
   • Inclusion of Building Project Approvals in the Application and Justification Indication
   • Changes in Displaying Part Approvals of the Building Project to the Building Authority
   • Option to Compare Approved Version with the Submitted One
4. Changes in Certificates of Building Absence:
   • New Conditions and Controls at Commissioning or Completion of Construction Works
   • Automatic Creation of Work Tasks for Issuing Certificates of Building Absence
   • Restriction on Submitting Applications for Building Absence Outside of Construction Cases
5. Saving Signed Versions of Documents as PDFs with System Signature
6. Notifications about Periodic Technical Inspection (PTA) Deadlines for Public Buildings
7. Changes in Displaying, Grouping, Settings, and Opt-Out of Notifications in BISP

31.05.2024. webinar: "Current Changes in the Construction Merchant Register"

Webinar Program and Presentation:

1. Delegation Rights for Data Submission to the Construction Merchant Register
2. Changes in E-Services of the Construction Merchant Register
3. Annual Information Submission to the Construction Merchant Register for Foreign Construction Merchants and Individual Merchants
4. Automatic Invoice Generation from Data Received by the State Revenue Service (VID)
5. Notification of Generated Invoices and Invoice Printing
6. Notification of Missing Financial Information or Unpaid Invoices
7. Exclusion from the Construction Merchant Register
8. Changes in the Display of Annual Data for Construction Merchants
9. Classification Calculation

26.04.2024. webinar: "Overview of the Functionality of the Building Project Expertise Report in BIS"

Webinar Program and Presentation:

Building Project Expertise Workspace (BISP):

• Configuration of building project expertise and assignment of experts
• Requesting and coordinating building project expertise
• Preparation and coordination of building project expertise reports and their parts
• Preparation and coordination of the fire safety solution report
• Correction of the building expertise request, submission of additional information
• Display of expert reports in the building project
• Submission of the building project expertise to the building authority
• Requesting and preparing building expertise reports for changes in the building project
• Indicating expert approval for the building project sheet agreement
• Display of building expertise report data to building authorities in BIS2

22.03.2024. webinar "Current Issues and News in BIS"

Webinar program and presentation:

• Changes in authorization and delegation rights:
  • Who can amend the initiator in the construction plan
  • New delegation rights for Construction Merchants
• Updates on changes in BL ownership and access
• Registration of natural resources in the Construction Journal and indication of resources used
• Changes in the Change Explanatory Note without reconstruction
• Additions in displaying Building Project review comments when requested missing information or rejected
• New version of BIS Mobile Application

23.02.2024. webinar "Current Issues and News in BIS"

Webinar program and presentation:

• Changes in the public portal:
  • New usability improvements;
  • Asynchronous download of the Construction Journal;
  • Additions in preparing and editing Building Project expertise opinions;
  • Options for postponing warnings;
  • Changes in authorizations and delegations;
  • Engaging an engineering consultant for Construction matters.
• Changes for construction board employees:
  • Updates in the "Decisions/Instructions" section;
  • Introduction of warning processing procedures;
  • Changes in authorization and delegation rights.

26.01.2024. webinar "Current Issues and News in BIS"

Seminar program and presentation:

• Updates and additions for Technical Regulation publishers:
  • Configuration option for technical regulation requirements;
  • Aligning Building Projects with conditions.
• Changes in the public portal:
  • Changes in preparing technical regulation requirements;
    • Usability changes:
    • Changes in email verification notification;
    • Changes in the main panel;
    • Changes in adding records to the list;
    • Additions in navigating and displaying content of project submissions.
• Changes for construction board employees:
  • BIS2 design additions;
  • Option to change consent for cases or work tasks;
  • Option to cancel KPP decision

 

BIS webinars organized in 2023

19.12.2023 webinar "Current issues and news in BIS"

Webinar program and presentation :

• Project approval conditions (TPI) ;
• Determination of jurisdiction or BVKB;
• Decision on cancellation of the decision;
• Changes in BISP and in the statement BIS2 on the registration of unfinished new construction;
• Cancellation of part of BP;
• BIS2 design changes - the main things only because there was a separate seminar;
• Supplements on BP expertise;
• Insights into BISP usability changes.

29.11.2023 webinar "Overview of the new BIS2 design"

Webinar program and presentation :

• BIS2 design change rationale
• Major usability improvements
• Detailed overview of BIS2 sections
  • Working with saved filters
  • Work assignments
  • Construction matters
  • Operational matters
  • Profile and other sections

Information material/overview of the most significant changes to BIS2

Answers to the received questions of BIS2 users in the questionnaire

22.11.2023 webinar "Current issues and news in BIS"

Webinar program and presentation :

• The most important thing about changes in the designation of the participants involved
• Additions to page matching
• Construction process lane changes
• Improvement of the public consultation process:
  • Decision on the need for public consultation
  • Notice of submission to public consultation (submission from BISP)
  • Decision on the initiation of public consultation
  • Informing the public about the public consultation
  • Overview of the public consultation
  • Control of the period of public consultation
• Information about other improvements.

10.11.2023 webinar "Workplace of experts in the Construction Information System" 

Webinar program and presentation :

• Changes in the creation of powers and delegations
• Construction project expertise:
  • Construction project expertise section and configuration
  • Designation of responsible experts, history of participants
  • Requesting construction project expertise and preparing an opinion
  • Construction expertise opinions on changes to the construction project
  • Submission of construction project expertise to the construction board
• Information about other improvements in the Construction case
• Creation and approval of a fire safety solution opinion

08.11.2023 webinar "Data exchange interface with BIS" (builders' API)

Webinar program and presentation :

• Overview of APIs (Data Exchange Interfaces with Construction Industry Participants)
  • BIS API - what can you really do with it?
    • Preparation of BIS construction projects
    • Work with construction e-services (submissions)
    • Filling in the logbook of construction works
  • How do users self-register to use the API?
  • What steps do businesses need to take to connect to the API?

03.11.2023 webinar "Overview with BIS improvements implemented in 2023"  (for construction workers)

Webinar program and presentation :

Part 1. Changes available from November 3:

• Changes in the creation of powers and delegations;
• Submission for change of initiator from the Construction section;
• Additions in the coordination of the construction project and display of comments;
• Changes in the designation of the developer of the construction project;
• Changes in designation of construction specialist, construction progress participants and substitutes;
• Choosing a construction participant profile on the portal;
• Additions to the construction file search and documents.
• Changes to the construction progress section:
  • Activation of the responsible construction specialist (substitute) during the construction works;
  • New section "Documents" for construction progress documents;
  • Changes in linking the construction project pages with the construction log entry;
  • Changes in the uploading and correction of the estimate and list of construction products;
  • Changes to Construction log entries and downloads.

Part 2. Information about other upcoming changes:

• Construction process lane improvements;
• Improvement of the public consultation process;
• Requesting construction project expertise, receiving and submitting an expertise opinion;
• Additions to the display of the construction project approval conditions and canceled section;
• Determination of BVKB's ownership of submissions.

01.11.2023 webinar "Data exchange interface with BIS" (initiator and designer API)

Webinar program and presentation :

• What is BIS Portal Interface BIS API?
  • Work without an interface
  • Working with the interface
  • Basic principles of implementation
  • Integrated functionality
• Getting the interface user
  • Overall user acquisition process
  • User acquisition step by step 
• Application administration facility in BISP

27.10.2023 webinar "Overview of BIS improvements implemented in 2023" (for initiators and designers)

Webinar program and presentation :

• Changes in the creation of powers and delegations
• Improvements to the construction process bar
• Improvement of the public consultation process
• Requesting the expert opinion of the construction project, receiving and submitting the expert opinion to the construction board
• Changes in the designation and display of the Construction Project developer and Construction Progress participants
• A look at the changes in the Construction progress section:
  • Activation of the responsible construction specialist during construction
  • New section "Documents" for construction progress documents
  • Changes to the link of the construction project page with the construction work log entry
  • Changes to uploading and correcting estimates and building product lists
  • Changes to Construction log entries and downloads
• Additions to the display of the approval conditions and canceled section of the construction project.

22.09.2023 webinar "Current issues and news in BIS"

Webinar program and presentation :

• Changes in the completion of construction works with data registration in the cadastre without cadastral surveying (BKU):

  • Changes to the completion of the explanatory article.
  • Notice of construction changes to the completion of construction works.
  • Specifying the beneficiary of VZD invoices.
  • Creating a VZD request.
  • Receipt and payment of invoice.
  • Automatic submission of application after payment of invoices.
  • If missing information is required for the application for completion of construction works.
  • Termination of the request of the VZD, if the completion of the construction works is rejected or cancelled.
  • How to follow the processing of VZD requests.
  • Receipt of the final invoice of VZD.

08.09.2023 webinar "Current issues and news in BIS"

Webinar program and presentation :

• Possibilities of grouping construction files;
• Placing the construction file in the archive and removing it;
• The most frequently asked questions about the coordination of construction project pages in the course of construction works:
  • How to reconcile pages?
  • How to specify expert approval in page approval?
  • How to change the reason for changes to the specified pages?
  • Submission of the construction project of changes to the construction board.

04.08.2023. webinar "Current issues and news in BIS"

Webinar program and presentation :

• Changes and additions on the BISP side:
  • Connection of the change with the development of the 2nd round of the Consent to Silence Principle (KPP):
    • New fields and controls in the entry step of building news;
    • Display of KPP application feature.
  • Archiving of construction file (BL):
    • New law in Powers and Delegations;
    • BL archiving manually;
    • Bulk archiving of BL;
    • BL archiving automatically;
    • Searching and displaying archived BL;
    • BL removal from archive.
• Changes and additions on the BIS2 side:
  • Relation of the change to the development of the KPP:
    • News about the construction of new fields;
    • Representation of KPP application in construction file data;
    • Work assignment processing if applicable KPP.
  • Grant of archiving rights from the BIS2 side and visual highlighting of the BISP archived construction file on the BIS2 side.

30.06.2023 webinar "Current issues and news in BIS"

Webinar program and presentation :

• Additions to the application of the principle of consent to remain silent (KPP):
  • Obtaining a permit from NKMP according to the KPP principle
  • Acceptance of approval of the construction project according to the KPP principle
  • Representation of the KPP feature in the data of the construction file
  • Determination of the KPP for the tasks of the explanatory article
  • Acceptance of the submission of the explanatory article according to the KPP principle
  • Acceptance of the BUN enforcement application according to the KPP principle
  • Acceptance of changes in the simplified design according to the KPP principle
  • Acceptance of other submissions to the construction board according to the KPP principle

16.06.2023 webinar "Current issues and news in BIS"

Webinar program and presentation :

• New overview section "Actual data" for construction file BISP
• About Third Party Agreements
• Additions to the "Construction Notice":
  • Transcript retrieval option
  • Cancellation of construction notice in part by "Decision on cancellation of construction notice"
• Changes to the construction file deadline are under control
• Other minor improvements
• Answers to questions

26.05.2023 webinar "Urgent issues and news in BIS"

Webinar program and presentation :

• BISP's new design and information layout:
  • Calendar of events and trainings
  • Frequently asked questions and quiz
• Terminology changes and corrections made:
  • There is a "Construction project" and "Changes in the construction project" (there is no more "Construction design documentation")
  • Additions to the designation of construction participants
• Additions in the processing of BIS2 documents, decisions:
  • Removal of decision types from the new Building Board decision document
  • Extending the execution of instructions/decisions through the decision document
  • Changes in the preparation and processing of the "Decision on cancellation of the notice of construction".
  • New selection criteria
• Other fixes and upcoming improvements, changes

21.04.2023 webinar "Current issues and news in BIS"

Webinar program and presentation :

• Chat options, its clarifications and improvements
• Mobile application additions (version 2):
  • Creating and submitting a complaint
  • Authorization section
• Information about changes in terminology:
  • The project will be renamed the construction project
  • The initiator will be renamed the construction initiator
  • etc. clarifications of construction participants
• Changes in the creation of BIS2 documents:
  • Opinion on construction inspection changes
  • Changes in decision types

31.03.2023 webinar "Current issues and news in BIS"

17.02.2023 webinar "News for House Managers and Managing House Affairs BIS

Answers to the questions asked during the webinar

Webinar program:

10:00 Current issues, requirements for registration in the register of managers and access to the BIS "House file" (presentation)
  (Elvijs Kalnkambers, Ministry of Economy)

~ 10:30 Access to the "House Case" at BIS (presentation)
  (Iveta Putne, Construction State Control Office)

~ 11:00 Home Affairs (ML) functionality BIS (presentation)

• ML list and basic data, information on energy certificate, manager and owners
• Data entry of meter readings, accumulated funds and management costs, income/expense reports
• Ability to send and receive notifications
• Creating polls and general meetings, voting, processing results, creating minutes, registering and processing objections
• Completing the survey registration log
• Creating an application for the manager and processing it
• Planning, carrying out and recording completion of repairs
• Attaching documents and decisions
• Preparation of ML data Printouts

 (Ilze Auzarāja, SIA Tietoevry Latvia)

~ 12:00 Results of the study of multi-apartment residential buildings (presentation)
  (Elvijs Kalnkambers, Ministry of Economy)

27.01.2023 webinar "Current issues and news in BIS"

Webinar program and presentation :

• Recent fixes or additions on the BISP side:
  • Termination of the "Ideja" by the initiator at the stage of the construction case
  • What's new in the 'Construction progress' section:
    • Clarifications in the download of the construction log, the possibility to download the SDA without attachments
    • Corrections in adding and displaying the 'Construction Contract'
    • Corrections to estimates on re-upload and unlinking deleted records from the estimate
    • Clarifications in the validation of construction log entries
  • Commisioning of a building:
    • Certificate of construction readiness - why does it throw "Error in entered data"?
    • Corrections to VZD and VVDZ requests
  • Improvements in powers and delegations:
    • The recipient can refuse the delegation
    • What should be noted when indicating the stages of the validity period
• Recent fixes or additions on the BIS2 side:
  • Improved BL current data, BL search
  • Clarifications on inspections of deferred construction works, on case termination and deadline control DU
  • New fields in documents, VUGD documents
• Other improvements made and upcoming improvements