BUILDING DESIGN SYSTEM

CE 409
BUILDING DESIGN SYSTEM
LECTURE 7: BUILDING PERMIT
 Section 301. Building Permits.
•No person, firm or corporation, including any agency or instrumentality of the
government shall erect, construct, alter, repair, move, convert or demolish any building or
structure or cause the same to be done without first obtaining a building permit therefor
from the Building Official assigned in the place where the subject building is located or
the building work is to be done.
 Section 301. Building Permits.
•Permits supplementary to a building permit shall be applied for and used by the
Building Official. These include
1. Ancillary Permits
2. Accessory Permits
Ancillary Permits
The ANCILLARY PERMITS duly signed and sealed by the
corresponding professionals and the plans and specification
shall be submitted together with the duly notarized application
for Building Permit. The Building Permit is null and void if not
accompanied by the Ancillary Permits. The prescribed Ancillary
and other Accessory Permits/forms shall be likewise be used
whenever applicable.
Ancillary Permits
What are the 7 Ancillary Permits needed to be submitted
together with the Building Permit?
Ancillary Permits
1. Architectural Permit
2. Civil/Structural Permit
3. Electrical Permit
4. Mechanical Permit
5. Sanitary Permit
6. Plumbing Permit
7. Electronics Permit
Accessory Permits
Accessory Permits are issued by the Building Official for
accessory parts of the project with very special functions or use
which are indicate in the plans and specifications that
accompany the building permit application. These may include,
among others: bank and records vaults; swimming pools;
firewalls separate from the building/structure; towers; silos;
smokestacks; chimneys; commercial/industrial fixed ovens,;
industrial kilns/furnaces; water/waste treatment tanks, septic
vaults; concrete and steel tanks; booths, kiosks and stages;
and tombs, mausoleums and niches.
Accessory Permits
Accessory Permits are issued by the Building Official for
activities being undertaken prior to or during the processing of
the building permit. The coverage is spelled out in the
accessory permit form including the expiry period. These shall
be signed by the concerned owner/applicant and by the
concerned professionals. These permits include, among others,
ground preparation and excavation, encroachment of
foundation to public area, fencing, for fence not exceeding 1.80
meters high, sidewalk construction, temporary sidewalk
enclosure and occupancy, erection of scaffolding, erecting,
repair, removal of sign; and demolition.
 Exemption from Building Permits
A building permit shall not be required for the following minor
constructions and repairs, provided these shall not violate any
provision of this IRR.
A. MINOR CONSTRUCTION
i. Sheds, outhouses, greenhouses, children’s playhouses,
aviaries, poultry houses and the like, not exceeding 6.00 sq.m.
in total area, provided they are completely detached from any
other buildings and are intended only for the private use
of the owner.
ii. Addition of open terraces or patios resting directly on the
ground, not exceeding 20.00 sq.m. in total floor area,
exclusively for the private use of the owner.
 Exemption from Building Permits
iii. Installation of window grilles.
iv. Garden pools for the habitation of water plants and/or
aquarium fish not exceeding 500 millimeters in depth and
exclusively for private use.
v. Garden masonry walls other than party walls not exceeding
1.20 meters in height, footpaths, residential garden walks
and/or driveways.
 Exemption from Building Permits
B. REPAIR WORKS
i. Repair works not affecting or involving any structural member,
such as replacement of deteriorated roofing sheets or tiles,
gutters, downspouts, fascias, ceilings and/or sidings.
ii. Repair and/or replacement of non load-bearing partition walls.
iii. Repair and/or replacement of any interior portion or a house
not involving addition or alteration.
 Exemption from Building Permits
B. REPAIR WORKS
iv. Repair and/or replacement work of doors and windows.
v. Repair and/or replacement work of flooring.
vi. Repair of perimeter fence and walls.
vii. Repair and/or replacement of plumbing fixtures, fittings or
pipings, such as toilet bowls, sinks, lavatories, urinals, bidets,
pipes, faucets, valves for single detached dwellings and
duplexes.
 Section 302. Application for permits.
In order to obtain a building permit, the applicant shall file an
application therefor in writing and on the prescribed form from the
office of the Building Official. Every application shall provide at least
the following information:
(1)A description of the work to be covered by the permit applied
for;
(2)Certified true copy of the TCT covering the lot on which the
proposed work is to be done. If the applicant is not the registered
owner, in addition to the TCT, a copy of the contract of lease shall
be submitted;
(3) The use or occupancy for which the proposal work is intended;
(4) Estimated cost of the proposed work.
 Section 302. Application for permits.
To be submitted together with such application are at least five
sets of corresponding plans and specifications prepared,
signed and sealed by a duly mechanical engineer in case of
mechanical plans, and by a registered electrical engineer in
case of electrical plans, except in those cases exempted or not
required by the Building Official under this Code.
 Section 302.
Application for
permits.
Who are the duly licensed and registered professionals who
prepare, sign, and seal survey plans, design plans,
specifications and other documents?
 Section 302. Application for permits.
a) Geodetic Engineer, in case of lot survey plans;
b) Architect, in case of architectural documents; in case of architectural
interior/interior design documents, either an architect or interior designer
may sign;
c) Civil Engineer, in case of civil/structural documents;
d) Professional Electrical Engineer, in case of electrical documents;
 Section 302. Application for permits.
e) Professional Mechanical Engineer, in case of
mechanical documents;
f) Sanitary Engineer, in case of sanitary documents;
g) Master Plumber, in case of plumbing documents;
h) Electronics Engineer, in case of electronic documents.
 Section 303. Processing of Building Permits.
The processing of building permits shall be under the overall
administrative control and supervision of the Building Official
and his technical staff of qualified professionals.
In processing an application for a building permit, the Building
Official shall see to it that the applicant satisfies and conforms
with approved standard requirements on zonings and land use,
lines and grades, structural design, sanitary and sewerage,
environmental health, electrical and mechanical safety as well
as with other rules and regulations promulgated in accordance
with the provisions of this Code.
Section 304. Issuance of Building Permits.
When satisfied that the work described in an application for
building permit and the plans and specifications submitted
therewith, conform to the requirements of this Code and other
pertinent rules and regulations, the Building Official shall,
within fifteen days from payment of the required fees by the
applicant, issue the building permit applied for.
Section 304. Issuance of Building Permits.
The Building Official may issue a permit for the construction of
only a part or portion of a building or structure whenever the
plans and specifications submitted together with the
application do not cover the entire building or structure.
Approved plans and specifications shall not be changed,
modified or altered without the approval of the Building Official
and the work shall be done strictly in accordance thereto.
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Section 305. Validity of Building Permits.
The issuance of a building permit shall not be construed as an
approval or authorization to the permittee to disregard or
violate any of the provisions of this Code.
Whenever the issuance of a permit is based on approved plans
and specifications which are subsequently found defective, the
Building Official is not precluded from requiring permittee to
effect the necessary corrections in said plans and specifications
or from preventing or ordering the stoppage of any or all
building operations being carried on thereunder which are in
violation of this Code.
Section 305. Validity of Building Permits.
A building permit issued under the provisions of this Code shall
expire and become null and void if the building or work
authorized therein is not commenced within a period of one
year from the date of such permit, or if the building or work so
authorized is suspended or abandoned at any time after it has
been commenced, for a period of 120 days.
 Section 306. Non-Issuance, Suspension or
Revocation of Building Permits.
The Building Official may order or cause the non-issuance,
suspension or revocation of building permits on any or all of
the following reasons or grounds:
(a) Errors found in the plans and specifications;
(b) In correct or inaccurate data or information supplied;
(c)Non-compliance with the provisions of this Code or of any
rule or regulation.
Notice of non-issuance, suspension or revocation of building
permits shall always be made in writing, stating the reason or
grounds therefor.
Section 307. Appeal.
Within fifteen (15) days from the date of receipt of advice of
the non-issuance, suspension or revocation of permits, the
applicant/permittee may file an appeal with the Secretary who
shall render his decision within fifteen days from date of
receipt of notice of appeal. The decision of the Secretary shall
be final subject only to review by the Office of the President.
 Section 308. Inspection and
Supervision of Work.
The owner of the Building who is issued or granted a building
permit under this Code shall engage the services of a duly
licensed architect or civil engineer to undertake the full time
inspection and supervision of the construction work.
Such architect or civil engineer may or may not be the same
architect or civil engineer who is responsible for the design of
the building.
It is understood however that in either case, the designing
architect or civil engineer is not precluded from conducting
inspection of the construction work to check and determine
compliance with the plans and specifications of the building as
submitted.
 Section 308. Inspection and
Supervision of Work.
There shall be kept at the jobsite at all times a logbook
wherein the actual progress of construction including tests
conducted, weather conditions and other pertinent data are to
be recorded.
Upon completion of the construction, the said licensed
architect or civil engineer shall submit the logbook, duly signed
and sealed, to the Building Official. He shall also prepare and
submit a Certificate of Completion of the project stating that
the construction of building conforms to the provisions of this
Code as well as with the approved plans and specifications.
 Section 309. Certificate of
Occupancy.
No building or structure shall be used or occupied and no
change in the existing use or occupancy classification of a
building or structure or portion thereof shall be made until the
Building Official has issued a Certificate of Occupancy therefor
as provided in this Code.
A certificate of Occupancy shall be issued by the Building
Official within thirty (30) days if after final inspection and
submittal of a Certificate of Completion referred to in the
preceding section, it is found that the building or structure
complies with the provisions of this Code.
 Section 309. Certificate of
Occupancy.
The Certificate of Occupancy shall be posted or displayed in a
conspicuous place on the premises and shall not be removed
except upon order of the Building Official.
The non-issuance, suspension and revocation of Certificates of
Occupancy and the procedure for appeal therefrom shall be
governed in so far as applicable, by the provisions of Section
306 and 307 of this Code.
 Section 309. Certificate of
Occupancy.