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BEFORE & AFTER

HOUSE PLAN - BUILDING AUTHORITY SCHEDULE

A building inspector is a government employee whom you might rightly reckon as an adversary, but never, never, never as an enemy.  This is so, grasshopper, because in the former instance you should be able either to withstand the challenges or to learn something new from them, and in the latter instance only you will suffer. AG

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BEFORE

Nobody really wants to fill out a building permit.  At least not AG.  Not anybody he's ever met.  Ever even heard of. 

To work on completing a building department checklist can be, in AG's opinion, not entirely unlike this poor lass's day job.

AG and The Missus have not ever seen a house designer having helped a local building authority having jurisdiction (a/k/a AHJ) work through AHJ requirements.  Before The Architect does, from time to time.

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AFTER

1) Now and then a building authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) in the area of our building site will publish a checklist for new construction and remodel construction.

2) Before The Architect can and does complete such checklists when plan sets get involved, which they usually do

a) AHJ’s are not accustomed to Before The Architect’s level of detail and cross-reference and could slow down the permit process in order to sort things out

b) there are often several paths in Before The Architect’s plan sets to address a given design or construction aspect

3) Here’s a one-page example of Before The Architect’s reply (in red) to a 10-page checklist for a to-be-built, displaying several interesting entries, among them

a) coded references are to plan set sheets both drawn and texted, e.g.,

i) "RF" is the Roof Plans corner-sheet code

ii) D2B identifies the second, or B, entry on the second Detail sheet

b) sometimes it takes several references to responsibly reply to a specific interest, e.g.,

i) Smoke Alarms/Egress Windows shows two references each

(1) one each to an drawn sheet for locations

(2) one each to itemized text of design standards

ii) Vapor Barriers includes 9 separate references to illustrated text

c) whenever possible, Before The Architect will refer to illustrations with text rather than with unillustrated text

d) several entries are labeled "By Others" in order

i) to prompt both owners or others to acquire replies and

ii) to prompt the AHJ to look for them separately from the formal plan set, in matters such as

(1) floor truss engineering

(2) roof truss engineering

(3) seismic engineering

(4) high-wind resistance engineering

(5) high-wall engineering

(6) majorly unbalanced wall engineering

(7) some beam engineering

(8) some foundation engineering

(9) energy calculations

(10) environmental reporting

(11) grading plan

(12) driveway access

(13) supplier-sourced information on materials

(14) manufacturer-sources information on materials

(15) heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning plan

(16) plumbing plans in more difficult enterprises of, e.g., lifting flow

e) note please the entry "Attic Partition?" by Living Space Above Garage, the intent of which is to

i) alert the AHJ early-on that even though there is no living space above the garage,

ii) the attic space above the garage is

(1) open to attic space over the entirety of the house living space and

(2) a firewall partition may be required

f) Before The Architect alerts the AHJ here on this page and on others that the owners plan on an unvented crawlspace, which plan,

i) albeit extensively described in this plan set not only as to design but also as to construction,

ii) is still novel enough in most jurisdictions to have regulatory attention drawn to it at the outset

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