Performs state administration according to the Building Act and relevant implementing legislation. Performs construction supervision. Initiates proceedings for offences and other administrative offences. Deals with numbering of buildings and names of streets and public spaces.

Exercises state administration within the scope of the municipal authority of the municipality with extended jurisdiction under the Building Act, except for zoning. Within this competence, it issues, in particular, decisions on the location of buildings, planning consents, consents for notified buildings, building permits, permits changes to buildings, etc.

Providing construction and legal activities of the city. The Department issues decisions on the location of construction, change of land use or subdivision or consolidation of land. It also conducts building approvals, extends deadlines for completion of construction, and arranges for the issuance of a petition for an early occupancy permit.

The Department issues decisions on the location of buildings, planning consents, consents for notified buildings, building permits, conducts relevant proceedings, authorises changes to buildings and changes of use of buildings, as well as authorises the use and removal of buildings.

We provide construction and legal activities of the city. We investigate and handle complaints within the Building Department and in adjacent municipalities under the jurisdiction of the Building Department. We prepare zoning documents, regulatory plans and site studies.