Building panel
The building panel is a focused view of one building. You open it from the Buildings sub-tab in the property panel or by clicking a building directly in the map. The property panel covers the whole matrikkelenhet, while the data in the building panel is limited to this one building: areas, sections and usage units, status history and energy data.
All the tabs in the building panel
The video opens Tordenskiolds gate 2 from search, goes to the Property tab and the Buildings sub-tab, clicks the office building and goes through the four tabs and sub-tabs of the building panel: Overview, Sections and Units, Building statuses and ESG.
- Search for the address and select the hit in Oslo. The property panel opens; drag it wider.
- Property, then Buildings. Click the building in the list. The building panel takes over the panel, with the building number at the top.
- Sections and Units: Hierarchy, Sections and Usage units.
- Building statuses: the building and the extension, each with its registered statuses.
- ESG: the energy label, Enova and TEK.
- Back at the top of the panel takes you back to the property panel.
Duration: 1 minute and 13 seconds. The tabs depend on the building: a building without sections only shows the usage units, and ESG appears when there is an energy label or a certification.
Top of the panel
At the top you find the path back to the property: the arrow and the matrikkelnummer take you back to the property panel you came from. Below it you see the building number, the matrikkelnummer with a copy button and the building type as Matrikkelen has registered it, for example "Kontor- og adm.bygning rådhus". On the right are Zoom to, which moves the map to the building, and Close. You can make the panel wider by dragging the left edge.
Building no. is the national building number from Matrikkelen. It stays stable across changes of ownership and matrikkel changes, so it is the reference that holds when the address or the property boundaries change.
Tabs
The panel has five tabs: Overview, Sections and Units, Floors, Building statuses and ESG. All five fit in the strip at normal panel width. What they contain depends on the building: a building that is not sectioned only shows the usage units, and ESG has content when there is an energy certificate or a TEK registration. The screenshots below are from an office building in Oslo.
Overview
The dashboard extract for the building. At the top there is a photo of the building from Google Street View where there is coverage. Below it is the Sections and Units card with the split between housing and non-housing, built-up area, gross area and use area, and a link straight into the tab. The Insight card at the bottom summarises ESG in the same way. The cards show the top of each tab; the tab itself has the rest.
Sections and Units
Two key figure cards and a table. The Building card shows BYA, share of plot, UFA and the number of usage units. The Sections / units card shows the number of sections and usage units, total use area and average use area. The table below has three sub-tabs:
| Sub-tab | Content |
|---|---|
| Hierarchy | The property, the building and the usage units as a tree, where the building you are in is marked "You are here". Click a row to open it. |
| Sections | The sections in the building. Empty for buildings that are not sectioned, like the office building above. |
| Usage units | The usage units in the building, with housing unit number, use and floor. |
The numbers are limited to this building. If the property has several buildings, this is how you see the split between them; the combined figures for the property are in the property panel.
Floors
The building floor by floor. The key figures at the top show the number of floors, UFA and BTA for the whole building, and how much of the area is commercial and housing. Below is the floor table: one row per floor, numbered the way Matrikkelen does it (H01 is the first floor above ground, K01 the first basement floor), with the area broken down by what you select at the top of the floor table: use type (housing or commercial), the usage units on the floor, or area type (UFA and BTA). The table at the bottom totals the share and the area. The tab is new in 3.0.24, and some of the text in it is currently shown in English.
The tab answers questions Sections and Units does not: how large each floor is, and where in the building the housing and the commercial area are. The areas come from Matrikkelen, see Where the area figures come from.
Building statuses
The status history from Matrikkelen, as a timeline per building part. The building itself is at the top with its building number, and each extension below, each with its own registered statuses: framework permit, permit to start work, temporary permit to occupy, completion certificate, taken into use and later changes to the building data. Each row has the status date, and the information icon next to it shows when the status was registered.
This is where you see whether a building has a completion certificate, and when the extension was approved. For older buildings it is common that only the date of first use is registered. The building case documents themselves are not here, but in Case records on the property.
ESG
Energy and environment for the building. At the top it shows how many energy certificates we have found, with Turn on map layers to add the energy labels to the map. The Energy labels card shows the grade on the scale from A to G together with the heating grade, and next to it are the issue date, category, material and year of construction. Below are two sub-tabs:
| Sub-tab | Content |
|---|---|
| Enova | The energy certificates from Enova, with energy grade, who the certificate belongs to, the issue date and the building category. Click a row to expand it. A certificate that is older than ten years is no longer valid, and is marked as such. |
| TEK | Which technical regulation the building falls under, with level, type and the date of the framework permit the registration is based on. See TEK17. |
The energy label is stored against the building, not against the individual usage unit. For mixed use buildings, this gives a coarser resolution than the individual certificates in the Enova register.
Typical use cases
Assessing an extension or an added storey. Open Building statuses to see what has already been approved and when, and Sections and Units for the areas the building has today. Combine this with the zoning plans as map layers to see what the plan allows.
Finding tenants in a commercial building. Open Sections and Units and the Usage units sub-tab for the units in the building. Which companies actually rent is on the Tenants tab in the property panel; see Units and Tenants.
Energy assessment. The ESG tab shows the grade and how old the certificate is. A certificate older than ten years is no longer valid, and a building without a certificate is not the same as a building with a poor grade.
Older buildings with sparse matrikkel data. Many buildings from before 1980 show "Unknown" in several fields, and a status history that starts at the first date of use. Then Case records on the property is the next source.
Sources
- Kartverket (Matrikkelen) for building type, areas, sections, usage units and status history.
- Enova for the energy certificates in the ESG tab.
- The municipality (case records) for the building cases behind the statuses, via Case records on the property.
Tips
- Building no. is stable across changes of ownership and matrikkel changes. Use it as the reference in archive links and documentation where the address may have changed.
- An extension has its own timeline in Building statuses, with the same building number as the building it belongs to. If you see two timelines, that is one building body with two registrations, not two buildings.
- UFA from Matrikkelen is register based and can differ from the surveyor's calculation, especially for older buildings that have not been updated after an extension.
- Cannot find the right property through the building? Search for the property instead and navigate to the building from there. This often happens because the matrikkelenhet has been merged or split after the building was registered.