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Building applications and alerts

Building applications show early where building will happen. Under Building applications they are listed with their source and objection deadline.

As of 26 October 2026

How it works

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    Search and filter

    Filter by canton, municipality, source or keyword. The keyword search also finds related terms, such as synonyms of a type of building. Signed in, you also filter within a radius of your company's location and show the applications on the map.

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    Watch or hide

    “Watch” keeps an application for everyone in the team, even after the objection deadline; a note for the team can go with it. “Hide” removes it from your lists and alerts.

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    Responsible and follow-up

    For a watched application you choose under “Responsible” who in the team takes care of it and under “Follow-up” a day to come back to it. The responsible person gets a notification when it is assigned and on the follow-up day and, if their e-mails about tasks are on, an e-mail.

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    Set up an alert

    Choose a canton, a municipality, a source or a keyword and then “Save alert”. New applications for these filters come with the e-mail digest, with Pro every morning, with Free on Monday mornings.

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    Manage alerts

    Under Search alerts your building application alerts have a section of their own; you edit or delete them there. An alert counts towards your active search alerts.

Good to know

  • The original publication of the source prevails; it also states the objection deadline and where the plans can be inspected.
  • Geneva's building applications name no municipality: an alert with a municipality filter never finds anything there.

Questions about this

Where do the building applications come from?

From official publications of cantons and cities. Each application names its source, and the “Source” filter shows which ones there are.

Which cantons are covered?

Visible to everyone: Fribourg, Geneva, City of Bern. Visible with a free account: Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Bern, Glarus, Lucerne, Nidwalden, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, Ticino, Uri, Valais, Zug, Zurich. No source for building applications: Aargau, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Graubünden, Jura, Neuchâtel, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Vaud. The building applications page shows the coverage by canton.