Building departments adopt administrative rules from time to time for construction issues that are not covered by the currently adopted codes.
These rules are called administrative guidelines and should always be reduced to writing by the local jurisdictions and placed in an administrative manual and easily accessible to the staff of the department.
Understand what the Building Department performs within its jurisdiction.
The Building Department performs complete plan evaluation to verify that all projects conform to safety requirements. When building a home or altering a space, the Building Department will provide necessary procedural guidance. Building Department members evaluate plans to validate compliance with area building regulations. Permit Place maintains close working relationships with every Building Department, which helps advance your project development. The workplace methods to prevent problems also maintain project schedules.
Problems occur when the building officials do not keep their staff up to date on new administrative decisions being adopted. The building department staff should meet at least twice a year to go over all administrative guidelines that have been adopted by the department.
The process remains on course through effective examinations
The Building Department will assign inspectors who examine your ongoing project construction. The construction site gets checked through inspections performed by these authorized employees who ensure plans remain followed. The Building Department will request modifications before authorizing the transition to subsequent construction stages when they detect construction issues. Our team at Permit Place enables you to organize your inspections to ensure the Building Department approves your work immediately on the first attempt. Project completion speeds up and postponements become less expensive for the project.
As the guidelines are reduced to writing they should contain the reasoning of why it is the best policy and placed in the guidelines and made available to the public on request.
The public has a right to ask for any written documentation or guidelines that will back up a request for information made on their permitting application by agency staff. Not following these suggestions can cause public dissatisfaction and complaints.