Title
Resolution - A Resolution to Authorize the City Manager to Execute an Agreement with Bureau Veritas North America, Inc., of Plano, TX, on Behalf of the City, for Building Plan Review and Inspection Services, Subject to Final Review and Approval by the City Attorney
Requested Action
Approve a Resolution to Execute an Agreement
Recommendation
Approve Resolution
Description/History
The current number of building permit applications, and in particular, the number of inspection requests, has made it difficult for staff to maintain the established permit issuance and inspection response times for the development community and our residents. Applications and inspection requests are at all-time highs, and with new developments on the horizon it is imperative that appropriate measures be taken to reduce staff workload by supplementing our inspection staff with third-party inspectors on an as-needed basis.
Bureau Veritas North America provides services to many municipalities and counties in North Texas and throughout the country. Their inspectors, as is the case with our city inspectors, are required to be certified and licensed for the trades they inspect, which includes continuing education and training. We expect these third-party inspectors to maintain the standards expected by the City of Mansfield.
The Building Safety Department will seek to immediately assign a number of multi-family developments currently under construction to Bureau Veritas inspectors to reduce the workloads on our city inspectors. This will not only help us maintain our response times, but will help ensure that we maintain the quality of the inspections being made. Staff will access the impacts of upcoming new single family and multi-family developments to determine if plan review and inspection services will be required from Bureau Veritas.
Justification
An agreement with Bureau Veritas North America for building plan review and inspection services will give the Building Sa...
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