building department services

For more than a decade, IBTS has been providing third-party plan review and inspection services for renovations of Washington-based embassies, including the Embassies of South Africa, Germany, and Switzerland, ensuring compliance in accordance with the District of Columbia’s adopted International Codes (I-Codes). Rather than only submitting reports of code violations, IBTS uses a collaborative approach to communicate issues and identify solutions with stakeholders as they arise, thereby reducing costly design, permitting, and construction delays. 

IBTS performs construction inspection and plan review services for Baltimore City Public Schools under the auspices of the Maryland Stadium Authority. All projects include building/architectural, structural, accessibility, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing plan review and inspection services. The projects have encompassed new construction and major renovations of existing school buildings, facilities, and equipment. To date, we have worked on 25 of the 28 schools in the 21st Century Schools Building Plan project.

The AOC is responsible for maintenance, operations, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., including all federal buildings and properties in the area except the White House. This includes more than 18.4 million square-feet of facilities and more than 570 acres of grounds, many of which are historically significant and require highly specialized skills and equipment. IBTS is evaluating and designing its building department for effectiveness, efficiency, and collaboration of its services. This involves design review and construction support to evaluate code compliance within different engineering disciplines at the AOC such as civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, safety, elevator, and plumbing.

IBTS provides full on-demand Permit Review Service as defined by AHJ Construction Codes, which includes Architectural/Accessibility/Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing, Energy, Green, as well as Fire, as applicable. Our review included MEP, non-structural building, and fire systems. Our services covered more than 1 million square-feet which included the Eccles Building, Constitution Avenue property, and new parking garage. We communicated with the designer and owner to ensure all comments were quickly resolved. 

As the Building Code Authority Having Jurisdiction for the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (VCU Health), IBTS has performed all building department services for about 2 million square-feet of hospital and support space across multiple buildings constructed over the past 10 years. In this capacity, IBTS issues all building permits, performs all plan reviews, conducts all code-compliance inspections, and coordinates with VCU Health to ensure compliance with applicable building, life-safety, fire, and related codes on all active projects. 

IBTS performed all third-party plan reviews for the $161 million, 400,000 square feet WMC campus expansion. Designed by Perkins + Wills, the renovation involved multiple buildings including an existing 22,000 square feet laboratory expansion, and a new five-story tower serving multiple critical departments within the medical center.

IBTS provides full on-demand Permit Review Service as defined by AHJ Construction Codes, which includes Architectural/Accessibility/Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing, Energy, Green, as well as Fire, as applicable. Our review included MEP, non-structural building, and fire systems. Our services covered more than 1 million square-feet which included the Eccles Building, Constitution Avenue property, and new parking garage. We communicated with the designer and owner to ensure all comments were quickly resolved. 

On behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of General Services (DGS) and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), IBTS provided project management and oversight, code compliance and quality assurance inspections, plan reviews, structural code and environmental reviews, scheduling and coordination, staffing, monitoring, and reporting. 

IBTS is serving the City of De Soto with a three-year contract for plan review and onsite inspection services to ensure the safety and code compliance of a Panasonic electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing plant being developed there. The $4 billion, 3.5-million square foot plant represents a significant economic win that is expected to create thousands of new jobs in the area once operational. Yet given the size and complexity of the project, it also presented a challenge for the City in meeting the corresponding surge in building code enforcement requirements. IBTS’ staff of onsite inspectors and remote plan reviewers provide the city with the qualifications, expertise, and skill to meet the significant demands of the project, while keeping it on schedule.

IBTS has provided full building department services on nearly 50 military installations across the United States, overseeing construction of more than 15,000 homes and accessory buildings and structures, ensuring these structures met or exceeded state building code requirements. Many of these homes were certified as ENERGY STAR homes under a program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy.

IBTS provided third party plan reviews and inspections for the largest mixed-use redevelopment projects in Washington DC., including City Vista, on the site of the former Wax Museum, and CityCenterDC, on the site of the former Washington Convention Center.

BTS performed all third-party plan reviews for this $107 million public-private mixed-use transit-oriented project to the Rhode Island Avenue Corridor in Northeast Washington, DC. It has 274 apartments and 70,000 square feet of retail spaces with new parking structures for Metro commuters.