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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

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.

Before The Architect can and does complete such checklists when plans sets get involved, which they usually do.

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.

There are often several paths in Before The Architect’s plans sets to address a given design or construction aspect. 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.

Coded references are to plans set sheets both drawn and texted, e.g.,

	"RF" is the Roof Plans corner-sheet code
	D2B identifies the second, or B, entry on the second Detail sheet

Sometimes it takes several references to responsibly reply to a specific interest, e.g.,

Smoke Alarms/Egress Windows shows two references each

	One each to an drawn sheet for locations
	One each to itemized text of design standards

Vapor Barriers includes 9 separate references to illustrated text

Whenever possible, Before The Architect will refer to illustrations with text rather than with unillustrated text

Several entries are labeled "By Others" in order

To prompt both owners or others to acquire replies and

To prompt the AHJ to look for them separately from the formal plans set, in matters such as

	Floor truss engineering
	Roof truss engineering
	Seismic engineering
	High-wind resistance engineering
	High-wall engineering
	Majorly unbalanced wall engineering
	Some beam engineering
	Some foundation engineering
	Energy calculations
	Environmental reporting
	Grading plan
	Driveway access
	Supplier-sourced information on materials
	Manufacturer-sources information on materials
	Heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning plan
	Plumbing plans in more difficult enterprises of, e.g., lifting flow

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

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

	The attic space above the garage is
	Open to attic space over the entirety of the house living space and
	A firewall partition may be required

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

	Albeit extensively described in this plans set not only as to design but also as to construction,
	Is still novel enough in most jurisdictions to have regulatory attention drawn to it at the outset

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