STRUCTURAL RECERTIFICATION PROCESS

1. You receive a letter from the County or City.
2. Proposal – We’ll send you a fee proposal for our service.
3. Inspect – We’ll visually inspect to determine the general condition of the structure and other required components per the published county guidelines.
4. Document – We’ll prepare the report, with several photos, documenting our
5. Submit - If no repairs are needed, then BNI submits to you a signed and sealed report for you to submit, along with the electrical report, through the online portal, mail or in person. BNI can guide you through the submittal process. If they don’t have comments, then you are all set for the next 10 years.
6. Repairs – Should the structure require repairs, and you retained us to prepare repair drawings, we’ll submit those drawings to you so you can submit for permit and to contractors to bid on.
7. Extension – Often repairs require a time extension. We can author a letter for you to submit.
8. Once the repairs are completed, we’ll reinspect and then issue a clean recertification report without deficiency comments, and you are all set for the next 10 years.

TIMELINE

• Time is of the essence! Within 90 days of the date of the letter, you are required to hire a Florida-registered engineer who must visit the site, prepare the report, and provide it to you for submittal to the building department.
• A 60-day extension may be granted to submit the report, or, in the case of repairs, to submit repair drawings for a permit (extensions, six months at a time, may be granted).

PENALTIES

• Penalties can be extremely costly, up to $10,000 per violation. In extreme cases, penalty can increase to a property lien, referral to the Unsafe Structures Unit, building evacuation, and demolition.