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Sealing jobs for the military?
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Sealing jobs for the military?

Sealing jobs for the military?

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I was in visiting a contractor at his office a few weeks ago.  While waiting for him to get off the phone I was looking at some of the projects they were bidding and at other people's drawings.  While looking, I came across a job that was for a military base.  After looking at them for a minute, I noticed that the seal applied to the drawings by the EOR was not in the jurisdiction (state) where the project was being built.  Is this something that is common with these type of projects?

RE: Sealing jobs for the military?

Often government agencies don't need to have their drawings sealed at all. I guess the logic is that the State doesn't have jurisdiction over a Federal project.
 

RE: Sealing jobs for the military?

I have done several jobs for the military and other federal institutions, and they have always required the designs to be sealed and we had to be registered in the State where the building would be constructed.  What did vary was that we didn't always use the local building codes.  For instance, in Florida, we would use the IBC code instead of the Florida Building Code.

RE: Sealing jobs for the military?

It depends on the federal agency involved.  Some do as structuresguy noted...require licensing in the state of the project.  Others require licensing somewhere, but not necessarily in the state in which the project is located.  As JLNJ noted, this is a federal sovereignty issue.

RE: Sealing jobs for the military?

For the VA projects I have done all you need is a PE license in any state as that property is considered "federal land" and they can do what they want. I thought this was true with all federal properties, so that is interesting that some have different requirements..

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