Recertification here is overseen by the City's Community Development Department, in a city that requires associations to share their engineering reports. We handle the inspection, the report and the filing end to end, through to your proof of recertification.
Aventura sits along the Intracoastal, within three miles of the coast, so condo and co-op buildings three stories or taller start at 25 years. All other buildings start at 30.
A City ordinance requires condo, co-op and homeowner associations to send the City any engineering report on structural, electrical or life-safety concerns within 24 hours of receiving it.
Since August 2021 the City has posted associations' engineering reports in its online document center.
As reported in 2021, with about 70 of them then due or past due for recertification.
You do not have to wait for the notice. The paperwork can be submitted up to two years early, and recertifying early does not shorten your cycle.
Find out where your building stands →Sources: City of Aventura, Enhanced Building Safety Inspections Program and engineering report disclosure ordinance (2021); Miami Herald, July 2021; Miami-Dade County recertification program (Code Sec. 8-11).
ESi was founded in 2014 by Oscar Sebelen, P.E., a licensed Electrical Professional Engineer in Florida since 2005, with more than 25 years of engineering experience at the helm. We know how buildings are designed and built, where problems tend to hide and what each building department in Miami-Dade and Broward expects to see.
A draft report and a conversation about any repairs, before anything is filed.
We inspect. We do not design and we do not repair, so we have no incentive to report deficiencies that are not there.
The submittal and the correspondence with the City of Aventura Community Development Department, at no additional cost.
Aventura follows the Miami-Dade scope. We keep every discipline with one team, so the scope, the schedule and the accountability stay in one place.
The structural condition assessment your recertification requires, documented and signed by a licensed Florida professional engineer. For threshold buildings we offer a separate consultation on how the work is best structured.
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The complete electrical inspection your recertification requires, carried out and signed by our licensed professional engineers.
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Level II thermographic inspection carried out by our own certified thermographers, required where a building has electrical equipment rated 400 amps or larger. One team, one point of accountability.
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The nighttime lighting check required where a property has parking, carried out alongside the rest of the inspection so it never becomes a separate appointment to coordinate.
Learn more →Every building is different. We confirm the exact scope that applies to your building before any work begins.
Send it to us today. We confirm the deadline, the scope and the timeline before anything is scheduled.
When a building reaches its milestone age, the county requires a documented inspection of its key systems. Structural and electrical are the core. Infrared thermography is added where equipment is rated 400 amps or larger, and a nighttime lighting check is added where the property has parking. In Aventura the documentation goes to the City, and any engineering report on structural, electrical or life-safety concerns is shared with the City within 24 hours. You finish with proof of recertification on file and a record you can give to a board, a lender or an insurer.
Condominium and cooperative buildings three stories or taller within three miles of the coast start at 25 years. In Aventura that means the city's condo and co-op towers. All other buildings start at 30, and both then repeat every 10 years. The number most people still use is 40 years, but that is the older name for what is now a 25 or 30 year milestone. If a notice has arrived, the clock is already running. The earlier the process begins, the more control you have over the timeline, the scope of any repairs and the outcome.
This is the part most owners are quietly concerned about, and it is more manageable than it sounds. You receive a draft report and a conversation about what was found and what the options are, before anything is filed. Any repairs that are required go through proper permitting. You are never locked into a specific contractor. You choose who carries out the work, and we can work alongside whoever you appoint. Buildings with deficiencies are recertified every day. Finding something is not the end of the process, it is a step within it.
A two-page guide to what our team looks for at your property and how to prepare for inspection day. Nothing to fill out or return, we handle the evaluation. Tell us where to send it.
We will outline exactly what your recertification requires, what the scope covers and what it takes to file it with the City.