News: NYC gets online...

New York City's Department of Buildings has gone all techy by digitizing the design and construction process of the agency. It is quite an achievement, if you consider that the Department receives 300,000 papers monthly to be able to host online all kinds of construction permit applications and associated documents. As seen in the architect magazine, buildings commissioner Patricia J. Lancaster states "The paper age is over. We are now effectively creating virtual job folders online". Come to think of it, you just wonder how this development hadn't happened any time sooner...