• MELAD & ASSOCIATES :

e-Plan Check

MELAD & ASSOCIATES provides quality plan check, inspection, and administrative services serving various Southern California jurisdictions since 1981, and with over thirty-six years of experience in the industry. Get the latest status on your plan check by using our Online Plan Check Status Tracker.

Melad & Associates is quite familiar with the expectations and the plan check process of the building departments, having provided such services to many cities. We have completed plan check reviews for thousands of projects in various Cities over the years. We have encountered projects of all sizes with varying degrees of complexity such as new commercial centers, new housing developments, new apartment complexes, residential additions/remodels, ADUs, and commercial tenant improvements, just to name a few.

Plan Check Process

Melad & Associates will provide qualified reviews and plan check for completeness and conformance with all City Ordinances, State and Federal Regulations, and all adopted Building, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, Energy, Green Building, and Disabled Access/ADA codes.  All reviews will be performed by our staff of professionally registered engineers and shall meet all timetable expectations.  At the City’s request an in-house plan checker can be provided.

The Melad & Associates Staff is qualified, well versed, and certified to provide the following types of reviews.

  • * Architectural
  • * Structural
  • * Mechanical
  • * Electrical
  • * Plumbing
  • * Title 24/Energy
  • * Disabled Access (Casp)
  • * LEED
  • * Green Building
  • * Fire Prevention/Fire & Life Safety
  • * Grading
  • * Solar Panel Systems
  • * Swimming Pools
  • * Temporary Shoring

 

A clear and concise correction list will be provided with all pertinent building information stated at the top of the list (i.e., type of construction, group occupancy, scope of work, plan check engineer), along with the current codes in use for the review.  Two hard copies of the correction list will be provided, one for the applicant and one for the City.  The correction list may also be emailed or faxed to the applicant or City at their request.

Upon approval of plan, two sets of plans, structural calculations, Title 24/Energy calculations, and any other pertinent documentation will be stamped and wet signed by the plan check engineer who completed the review.  The plans will be delivered to the City directly by our on-staff courier, and a return slip transmittal will be provided so that City Staff can sign and date for the receipt of the drawings.  This information will always help us in tracking the plans whereabouts, and shall be inputted in our database, just as it was inputted at every time, we received the plans or delivered them to the City.  It will set up a timeline of the review process in case there are any questions, and to help prevent any possible lag time.

Melad & Associates can send and receive electronic copies of plans using Dropbox or other filing sharing services of your choice.  We can review the plans, calculations, and other related documents using our Bluebeam software program.  We utilize Microsoft Word to generate our corrections lists that can be sent back via email.  Each project whether submitted electronically or paper hardcopies will have a unique plan check number assigned to the project.  This plan check number can be inputted into our website tracker for the city or end users to get real time updates on each project.