For the fourth year in a row, the White House declared May to be Building Safety Month. Building Safety Month highlights the importance of building codes to protect our homes, businesses, and roads against earthquakes, floods, and extreme weather. Seattle’s Building Safety Month proclamation commits to retrofitting Unreinforced Masonry (URM)… [ Keep reading ]
The Seattle construction codes are being updated to the 2021 code editions and include the building, residential, existing building, energy, mechanical, plumbing, fuel gas, and fire codes. The Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code is also being updated to the 2023 edition. The target implementation date for the 2021 Seattle Construction Codes… [ Keep reading ]
Beginning July 1, 2024, all proposed inverter-based Distributed Energy Resources (DER) must use inverters certified under Underwriters Laboratories (UL) 1741 Supplement B (Standard for Safety Inverters, Converters, Controllers and Interconnection System Equipment for Use with Distributed Energy Resources, Supplement B and labeled as UL1741-SB) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics… [ Keep reading ]
SDCI is proposing to exempt from Design Review new developments that include residential, hotel, and research and development (R&D) laboratories, as a part of Mayor Harrell’s Downtown Activation Plan (DAP). The bill would apply for three years, waiving the Design Review process for development proposals that contain mostly residential or hotel uses, or R&D laboratories, within the following urban center neighborhoods: Downtown; South Lake Union; Uptown; and First Hill.
SDCI is proud to announce that we will be an exhibitor at this year’s Women in Trades Fair. This is a community outreach event for young girls and women seeking to learn more about the trades. Our table will be set up inside the Seattle Center Fisher Pavilion where we will be explaining what SDCI does. We will have inspectors on site to answer questions about starting a career in the trades. Stop by our table for free giveaways and pamphlets regarding jobs at SDCI.
SDCI updated four Tips and published two draft Director’s Rules on relocation assistance payments.
SDCI updated a Tip on demolition and deconstruction and created a new Tip about transitional encampment permits.
Seattle Public Utilities is pleased to announce that the SPU’s Design Standards & Guidelines (DSG) V5.0 is available on the SPU website. Over 20 owners of the guideline chapters and numerous contributors updated the Design Standards & Guidelines to reflect our current design practices. Users of the guidelines are encouraged to provide feedback, which we will consider for future inclusion or revisions.
Opportunity to Discuss Seattle’s Green Building Permit Incentives
For almost two decades, the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections (SDCI) has offered developers construction benefits in exchange for meeting green building standards. These incentives have helped create thousands of certified green buildings. They are part of a suite of actions to reduce the City’s building carbon emissions by… [ Keep reading ]