Recertification here is filed with the City's own Building Department, through the City's online permitting system and on the City's timeline. We handle the inspection, the report and that filing end to end, through to your proof of recertification.
Condo and co-op buildings three stories or taller within three miles of the coast start at 25 years. All other buildings start at 30. Then every 10 years.
The City notifies owners by letter. Reports are filed online, signed and sealed with an approved digital signature.
Filing the report before repairs begin gives you 60 days to obtain a permit without a violation.
The City allows a single extension, and the request must arrive before your due date.
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 Miami Building Department, Get a Building Recertification; 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 Miami Building Department, at no additional cost.
Miami 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 the City of Miami the documentation is filed with the Building Department's Recertification Division. 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. Along Biscayne Bay many buildings fall under that rule, while the county's coastal map decides for each address further west. 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.