Plan examiner's approval required ?

Hi, wondering if anyone is familiar with how the plan approval process works? The job is professionally certified. The initial pw1 application and first PAA (1st) were approved almost immediately or within a few days. Then the job got selected for audit. My architect met with the plan examiner and subsequently filed another PAA (2nd) to resolve the audit issues with the examiner’s approval. We then had to file a third PAA (Long story, unrelated to the audit issues) but it has been 6 weeks now and still not approved. Is it because the job was previously tagged for audit, so I need to meet with the plan examiner every time I file a PAA for approval?

ccvle

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eileengray | 10 years and 8 months ago

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Yes every PAA needs to be approved by the plan examiner – whether it is ‘minor’ or not. If self-certification can be misused, just imagine if PAAs did not need to be approved! The problem is not the oversight, it is the DOB’s utter failure to provide timely services, thus dragging out simple items for weeks and months. As someone who used to be high up in the DOB told me – it’s the Department of UnBuilding.

ccvle | 10 years and 8 months ago

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The audit issues were resolved after we filed the second PAA. So my question is is it normal that every subsequent PAA that we file now will require plan examiner approval?

zag0r | 10 years and 8 months ago

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Professional certification is a means of obtaining approval quickly without review by a plan examiner. The architect or engineer promises to DOB that the drawings follow code and assumes everything will be built as per the drawings. One would think that such a wonderful shortcut would be prone to abuse and so it is. This is why 1 in 5 are audited and when they see that the original promise was not kept … they make you stand in the corner with a dunce hat on your head. Failed in the sense that it didn’t quite work out the way it was supposed to.

ccvle | 10 years and 8 months ago

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sorry, I meant the job was intended to be a professional certifying job. No that it already certified or failed a professional certification.

zag0r | 10 years and 8 months ago

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6 weeks is nothing when it comes to cleaning up a failed professional certification. Better to jump through the DOB hoops before a job starts than during the job. What’s the saying? Haste makes waste.