Must architects, engineers, or landscape architects be listed on a building permit application and must permit requests for revisions be professionally sealed?
The architect’s, engineer’s, and landscape architect’s names, as appropriate, must be listed on the application. All permit requests for modifications or revisions to the sealed plans must be sealed by the responsible architect, engineer, or landscape architect and issued by that architect, engineer, or landscape architect. 3. May construction documents for a commercial building, such as a bank, office or convenience store, be prepared by a contractor or a drafting service when there are only three employees? No, not if the occupant load exceeds 10 persons according to the current, adopted code. The actual number of employees is not relevant. 4. Do shop drawings have to be sealed by an architect or engineer and submitted to the Building Official for approval? No, typically shop drawings are intended as contractor or fabricator details. These are not part of the filed plans. B. Changes to Permitted Documents 5. May a building official/owner/builder/contractor make changes to an architec
