Building
Permit Revenue was $2,508,301.
Year to date
revenue is $18,196,724which is 22.24% higher
than projected in the '06 budget.
Construction
Valuation year to date is $2,935,236,017, which
is up 25.88% over last year.
Total
permits issued were about
7,400.
Residential
was up 19.57%
Commercial
was up 18.48%
The
overall total was up 18.70%
Inspection
Failure Rates
Building 30.12%.
Electrical 20.98%.
Plumbing 13.16%.
Mechanical 13.88%.
Average
response time for Plumbing inspections was 1.02
days.
Average
response time for Mechanical inspections was
1.04 days.
Plumbing
Inspections Top Five Code Defects
Jan Feb Mar '06
|
TASK
|
DESCRIPTION
|
#
OF DEFECTS
|
%
OF TOTAL
|
ROUGH
|
Piping
test missing/incorrect.
|
652
|
13.90%
|
WSD
|
Piping
test missing/incorrect.
|
230
|
4.90%
|
SLAB
|
Piping
test missing/incorrect.
|
164
|
3.50%
|
FINAL
|
Not
ready for inspection.
|
162
|
3.45%
|
FINAL
|
Fixture
installed incorrect.
|
138
|
2.94%
|
Mechanical
Inspections Top Five Code Defects
Jan Feb Mar '06
|
TASK
|
DESCRIPTION
|
#
OF DEFECTS
|
%
OF TOTAL
|
GAS
TEST
|
Test
not to code or bad gauge.
|
332
|
5.80%
|
FINAL
|
Damage
caused by others.
|
279
|
4.87%
|
FINAL
|
Not
ready for inspection.
|
262
|
4.57%
|
FINAL
|
Test
not to code or bad gauge.
|
227
|
3.96%
|
FINAL
|
Other
defect or no code.
|
185
|
3.23%
|
New
Inspections Pass Rate Incentives
Program In Mecklenburg
County
|
In
response to a continued high rate of
inspection failures, among certain
contractors, the
Code Compliance Task Force (CCTF)
reconvened to study the
problem.
The
results of the CCTF's work is a three
part plan to provide incentives to
contractors with
an inspection failure rate of 40% and
higher. If a contractor's failure rate
exceeds the 40%
level it will mean greater inspection
response time, a pre-inspection
performed by a qualified
party and/or continuing education to
meet department requirements. These
measures will add
significant time and cost to a
project.
The
plan was presented to the Building
Development Commission (BDC) and
approved for adoption.
You
can download a copy of the CCTF's
report here.
Just look for the link in the right
column.
For
more information please contact
Geraldine Walton at waltogb@co.mecklenburg.nc.us.
|
2006
North Carolina Code
Amendments.
|
The
2006 amendments to the 2003 code are
available for download here.
The new code was
adopted September 13, 2005. The
proposed effective date will be July 1,
2006. The Residential
Code is still incomplete at this
writing. We will keep you
posted.
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Have
a concern?
|
If
there is any particular concern or
issue you have with the way inspections
are performed bring
it to the floor of our next meeting.
Other contractors may very well have
had a similar experience.
After a discussion and forming a
concessus position within our
membership, our representative can
bring it before the BDC.
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