Engineering Evaluations
Mr. Smith can assist you with engineering evaluations and creating the reports necessary to provide the foundation and support so often needed to negotiate the regulatory environment.
Intuitive Codes and Consulting is prepared to work with you in putting together the most cost effective package that will fit the situation. Whether a Petition for Variance from the State of Wisconsin Administrative rules or a report to facilitate the approval of existing building projects, Mr. Smith can help ease your budget concerns.
Specializing in existing buildings, Jim can help pull together the types of reports on historic buildings undergoing repair, alteration or change of occupancy when the local code official deems the investigation and evaluation necessary. The International Existing Building Code gives the code official the opportunity to require such a report when it is intended that a qualified historic building meet the requirements of Chapter 11 and further requires that report to be prepared by a registered design professional and filed with the code official.
When confronted with situations where the desired use does not allow the building to be in strict compliance with all the detailed prescriptive requirements of the IEBC, it may be cost effective for your situation to use the performance compliance methodology allowed by IEBC Chapter 13. In essence, Mr. Smith can help you write your own variance that is guaranteed to be approved. The methodology outlined within IEBC Chapter 13 applies to the alteration, repair,
addition or change of occupancy of an existing structure, including historic and moved structures. That methodology is based on a philosophy that the provisions of the chapter are intended to maintain or increase the current degree of public safety, health and general welfare in those existing buildings while permitting repair, alteration, addition and change of occupancy without requiring full compliance with IEBC Chapters 4 through 12, except where compliance with other provisions of the IEBC are specifically required in Chapter 13. This powerful tool is worth considering and Mr. Smith can assist you in it's use.
Intuitive Codes and Consulting is prepared to work with you in putting together the most cost effective package that will fit the situation. Whether a Petition for Variance from the State of Wisconsin Administrative rules or a report to facilitate the approval of existing building projects, Mr. Smith can help ease your budget concerns.
Specializing in existing buildings, Jim can help pull together the types of reports on historic buildings undergoing repair, alteration or change of occupancy when the local code official deems the investigation and evaluation necessary. The International Existing Building Code gives the code official the opportunity to require such a report when it is intended that a qualified historic building meet the requirements of Chapter 11 and further requires that report to be prepared by a registered design professional and filed with the code official.
When confronted with situations where the desired use does not allow the building to be in strict compliance with all the detailed prescriptive requirements of the IEBC, it may be cost effective for your situation to use the performance compliance methodology allowed by IEBC Chapter 13. In essence, Mr. Smith can help you write your own variance that is guaranteed to be approved. The methodology outlined within IEBC Chapter 13 applies to the alteration, repair,
addition or change of occupancy of an existing structure, including historic and moved structures. That methodology is based on a philosophy that the provisions of the chapter are intended to maintain or increase the current degree of public safety, health and general welfare in those existing buildings while permitting repair, alteration, addition and change of occupancy without requiring full compliance with IEBC Chapters 4 through 12, except where compliance with other provisions of the IEBC are specifically required in Chapter 13. This powerful tool is worth considering and Mr. Smith can assist you in it's use.
