For a building in Kansas, first record the reviewers: the city or county building department for the building code (a county code applies in unincorporated areas, and a county can apply it within three miles of a city); the State Fire Marshal for a code footprint when the building is a group A occupancy over 2,000 people, a group E occupancy or day care for more than 24, a group I occupancy or anything attached to one, an R-1 or R-2 building of three or more stories or over 12,000 square feet, an R-4, or a business occupancy at a college; and the Office of Facilities and Property Management for anything on State property. Then check that the code analysis cites each reviewer’s editions: the local ordinance or resolution in force on the submittal date, because K.S.A. 12-3012 keeps an adopted edition in force until the ordinance changes; the Kansas Fire Prevention Code in K.A.R. 22-1-3 (the 2006 IBC and IFC, NFPA 101 (2006), and NFPA 13 and 72 (2007)); and for State property the 2018 International Codes, the 2023 NEC, and the 2010 ADA Standards on the office’s Form 110. Hospitals and nursing facilities add KDHE, KDADS, and Medicare editions that differ from one another. AI can flag conflicts; the design professional, the building official, and the fire marshal decide compliance.
Which Kansas codes apply to a set of drawings?
Kansas leaves the building code to cities and counties. K.S.A. 12-3009 and 12-3302 let a city incorporate a model code in an ordinance by reference, and K.S.A. 12-3010 requires the ordinance to name the code, its publisher, and the year or edition, state every addition or change in full, and file a marked official copy with the city clerk. K.S.A. 12-3303 gives counties the same power by resolution after a published notice and a hearing, and lets a county apply the code to all unincorporated areas or to areas within three miles of a city, enforce it itself, or contract with a city to enforce it around that city; K.S.A. 12-751 lets a city enforce building codes outside its limits in conjunction with subdivision or zoning regulations. None of the statutes read for this guide requires a city or county to adopt a building code or names an edition for private buildings. Statewide layers sit on top. Fire and life safety: under K.S.A. 31-133 the State Fire Marshal adopts rules on exits and on fire detection and extinguishing equipment in all buildings where people work, live, or congregate, except buildings used wholly as dwellings for no more than two families, and may adopt specific editions of national fire codes by reference; K.S.A. 31-134 names those rules the Kansas fire prevention code, gives them uniform force throughout the state, and bars any municipality from enacting or enforcing an inconsistent ordinance, with the State Fire Marshal deciding inconsistency after a hearing. K.S.A. 31-137 has the State Fire Marshal, deputies, and the chief of any organized municipal fire department enforce it, and K.A.R. 22-1-1 requires a municipality that adopts a model fire code and modifies a section to send a summary of the changes to the State Fire Marshal for approval or rejection. Schools: K.S.A. 31-150 sets the codes for school buildings, which K.S.A. 31-144 defines to include buildings of school districts, community colleges, area vocational schools, Regents institutions, and private schools, colleges, and universities. Accessibility: K.S.A. 58-1301 requires new facilities, additions, and alterations in Kansas to conform to Title II or Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which K.S.A. 58-1301b defines as 28 C.F.R. Parts 35 and 36. Energy: K.S.A. 66-1227 adopts the 2006 IECC as the energy efficiency standard for new commercial and industrial structures, denies the State Corporation Commission any authority to adopt or enforce energy standards, and leaves cities and counties free to adopt their own, and K.S.A. 66-1228 requires the builder or seller of a new single-family house or a multifamily building of four units or fewer to give the buyer a Kansas Energy Efficiency Disclosure on the commission’s form, which compares the house with 2006 IRC and IECC values for Climate Zones 4 and 5. Housing: K.S.A. 12-16,219 bars cities and counties from requiring a fire sprinkler system in a single-family dwelling, a building of two attached units or fewer, or a manufactured home, or making one a condition of a building permit or plat; the fast-track permits act, K.S.A. 12-16,224 to 12-16,226, makes a local government give notice that a single-family building permit application is incomplete within 15 days and approve or deny a complete one within 60 days or have it deemed approved, and bars a denial based on a rule adopted after the complete application was submitted; and section 3 of 2026 Senate Bill 418, signed by the Governor and listed by the Revisor of Statutes as K.S.A. 12-778, effective July 1, 2026, requires every political subdivision to allow a new single-family house of less than 2,500 square feet of livable floor area on its own lot to use the 2018 IRC (the model edition, the subdivision’s earlier 2018 version, or another subdivision’s, at the subdivision’s discretion), a single-car garage, one side of architectural finish, and a lot as small as 3,000 square feet.
The Kansas Fire Prevention Code still rests on 2006 model codes. K.A.R. 22-1-3, last amended February 4, 2011, adopts by reference the 2006 IBC and the 2006 IFC with their appendices, excluding IFC Chapters 22, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, and 38 and the references in IBC Chapter 35 and IFC Chapter 45 to the NFPA standards the regulation adopts in its own editions: NFPA 101 (2006), NFPA 101A (2007), NFPA 10, 13, 13D, 13R, 14, 72, and 385 (2007), NFPA 25, 30, 30A, 70, and 96 (2008), NFPA 52, 102, and 170 (2006), NFPA 110 (2005), and NFPA 17 and 17A (2002). K.A.R. 22-8-13 adds NFPA 54 (2006) and NFPA 58 (2008) for fuel gas and LP gas. Under K.S.A. 31-134a and K.A.R. 22-1-2, a building with a certificate of occupancy that conforms to the 1997 Uniform Building Code or the 2006 IBC, and to any special requirements of the fire code, is deemed to comply with the fire prevention code; the regulation names no newer IBC, so ask the State Fire Marshal how a building permitted under a city’s 2024 IBC is treated. The office’s plans review page tells designers to identify codes under K.A.R. 22-1-3 and lists the 2006 IBC and IFC, NFPA 101 (2006) for residential board and care, and NFPA 101 (2012) for hospitals and nursing homes; its code listing page also lists the 1997 UBC and gives NFPA 54 as the 2002 edition where K.A.R. 22-8-13 names 2006. A change is proposed but not adopted: an undated early public input notice on the office’s statutes and regulations page says the State Fire Marshal intends to start the rulemaking to adopt the 2024 International Fire Code, Kansas Edition, in place of the code K.A.R. 22-1-3 now adopts, with advice from the Governor’s Uniform Fire Code Task Force established by Executive Order 26-04. On November 9, 2026 the Secretary of State’s rules site showed the 2011 version of K.A.R. 22-1-3 as effective, so do not cite the 2024 IFC as the Kansas Fire Prevention Code until a new regulation takes effect.
Building code editions come from each local adoption, and K.S.A. 12-3012 and 12-3303 keep an adopted edition in force until the ordinance or resolution is amended, whatever the International Code Council publishes later. The local records read for this guide show the spread. Overland Park reviews commercial and residential plans to the 2024 International Codes and the 2023 NEC; its municipal code adopts the 2024 IBC and the 2024 IECC by Ordinance BC-3499 and the 2024 IRC by Ordinance BC-3513, both of 2026, amends IBC sections in Chapters 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9, and keeps the 2018 IRC for new single-family houses under 2,500 square feet on their own lots, citing state law. Wichita and Sedgwick County share the Metropolitan Area Building and Construction Department, whose adopted-codes page lists the 2024 IBC, the 2024 IEBC, the 2018 IRC, the 2023 NEC, ASME A17.1-2022, the 2024 IMC, and the 2021 Uniform Plumbing Code under the Wichita-Sedgwick County Unified Building and Trade Code, and lists no energy code. The same page disagrees with itself on fire and fuel gas: its summary lists the 2018 IFC for both the city and the county and the 2024 IFGC under mechanical, while its table lists Sedgwick County’s adoption of the 2024 IFC (Resolution 006-2025), Wichita’s 2026 adoption of the 2024 IFC (Ordinance 52-878, in a row labeled 2014 IFC), and the 2021 IFGC. Johnson County enforces the 2018 International Codes, ICC A117.1-2009, and ICC 500-2014 in its unincorporated area, effective July 1, 2020; its page says the Board of County Commissioners will consider adopting the 2024 International Codes on November 12, 2026, effective January 1, 2027 if adopted, so a set submitted before then follows the 2018 edition unless the county says otherwise. Lawrence and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas point to their adopted codes without listing editions on the pages read, so ask the building department. All checked November 9, 2026.
State property and licensed health care facilities have their own lists. The Office of Facilities and Property Management’s Form 110, dated September 2026, requires the code editions on the code footprint and on the title page of each discipline’s construction documents and lists the 2018 IBC (with Chapter 11 deleted in favor of the 2010 ADA Standards under K.S.A. 58-1301), IFC, IRC, IEBC, IMC, IPC, and IFGC, the 2018 IECC or ASHRAE 90.1-2013, the 2023 NEC, NFPA editions for other occupancies (among them NFPA 13 and 72 (2016), and NFPA 101 (2018) only for adult and boarding care homes under K.A.R. 22-11-8, which itself applies NFPA 101 as adopted in K.A.R. 22-1-3), NFPA editions for health care occupancies that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding (NFPA 101 and 99 (2012), NFPA 13 and 72 (2010)), ASME A17.1 as the State Fire Marshal implements it, the Kansas Fire Prevention Code, the Kansas boiler code, and the floodplain rules. Those editions are newer than the statute behind the State’s energy rule: K.A.R. 1-67-2 requires new state construction to comply with ASHRAE or the IECC when design development is submitted, and K.S.A. 75-37,126 defines those as ASHRAE 90.1-2007 and the 2006 IECC, with a life-cycle cost report to the Department of Administration for a functionally equivalent standard; confirm which edition the office accepts. For hospitals that take Medicare, 42 C.F.R. 482.41 incorporates the 2012 editions of NFPA 101 and NFPA 99, while KDADS’s K.A.R. 26-39-105 still adopts the 2006 IBC, NFPA 101 (2000), and the ADA Accessibility Guidelines as in effect July 1, 1994 for new nursing facilities, and KDHE’s K.A.R. 28-34-32b adopts the 1996-97 AIA guidelines for hospital construction, so record which edition each reviewer applies.
The building code review goes to the city or county that adopted the code, and the fire review goes to the State Fire Marshal when the occupancy calls for it. K.A.R. 22-1-7 requires a code footprint, a building and life safety code compliance document with graphic and narrative parts prepared by a Kansas-licensed design professional, for every new building, addition, change of occupancy, and renovation except buildings used solely as dwellings for no more than two families, and the local fire or building official can ask for a copy. The code footprint goes to the State Fire Marshal for review and approval for group A occupancies with a combined occupant load over 2,000; group B occupancies at community colleges, area vocational and vocational-technical schools, technical colleges, and Regents institutions; group A mixed with group E or I; any group E occupancy, including day care for more than 24 persons; any group I occupancy, including detention facilities, and any occupancy physically attached to one regardless of fire barrier separation; and R-1 or R-2 buildings of three or more stories including basements or more than 12,000 square feet, and any R-4. It is a full-size floor plan of every floor, including basements and mezzanines, with an 11 by 17 inch reduction sealed by the design professional, showing a bar scale and north arrow, new, remodeled, and existing areas, permanent partitions taller than six feet, room labels, assembly and floor occupant loads, ratings and openings of stair and shaft enclosures and corridors, occupancy and area separations, horizontal exits, exit passageways, and smoke compartments, required exterior exits and their capacity, the fire alarm control panel and annunciators, fire department connections, access roads, hydrants, distances to property lines and exposures, special hazards, and future additions, with a narrative giving the project purpose, the codes used, the owner and designer, the designer’s seal, the responding fire service, the local building department, occupancies, construction type, actual and allowable areas, heights, and ratings, active fire safety features, the water supply, and any alternative methods. The plans review page accepts scaled drawings or abbreviated life safety plans instead for child care serving 49 or fewer, before- and after-school programs in approved K-12 buildings, small tenant improvements that do not substantially affect fire protection, egress, occupancy, or life safety, and other low-risk projects; asks for submittals at least 30 days before they are needed; and says the office works with local fire and building officials through memorandums of understanding and shares approved plans with them. Form 803, revised June 8, 2026, goes by email with PDF attachments to prevention@ks.gov, says the office reviews as soon as possible within 30 days, and lists deferred submittals for temporary egress, phasing, fire alarm, and sprinkler plans, with no construction that needs temporary egress until those plans are approved and in place. For final inspection, Form 806 asks for a binder with pipe inspections, hood suppression, alarm, and sprinkler certificates, fire damper locations marked on the code footprint, an updated sealed code footprint and as-built drawings, a generator acceptance test under the 1999 edition of NFPA 110 (K.A.R. 22-1-3 adopts the 2005 edition), flame spread documentation, and the ratings and locations of firestopping. Exemptions and variances need a written application showing hardship or a new method of recognized adequacy under K.S.A. 31-136 and K.A.R. 22-1-4.
Building types bring other offices. Schools: K.S.A. 31-150 requires the construction, reconstruction, and renovation of school buildings to meet the 2000 IBC, wiring to meet the 1999 NEC, relocatable school buildings to meet the 2000 Life Safety Code, and accessibility to meet K.S.A. 58-1301; it bars letting a contract or paying out public funds unless the plans bear the seal of an architect or engineer licensed by the State Board of Technical Professions certifying that they meet the act, and lets the State Fire Marshal name later equivalent editions by rule. Community colleges, technical colleges, municipal universities, Regents institutions, and other postsecondary schools are exempt from the seal and accessibility subsections but must submit a code footprint to the State Fire Marshal before construction. No rule read for this guide names later school editions, and whether K.A.R. 22-1-3’s 2006 IBC is the equivalent the statute contemplates is not stated, so ask the State Fire Marshal which edition a school set should cite. K.S.A. 58-1304 still gives the State Board of Education accessibility enforcement for Title II school facilities “by plan approval as required by K.S.A. 31-150,” while the current text of K.S.A. 31-150 describes a sealed certification and no board approval; confirm the accessibility route with the district. Child care: the State Fire Marshal’s child care page says child care centers, preschools, and school-age programs must meet the 2006 IFC, need a code footprint or scaled drawing before a new facility opens or an existing one is modified, and get initial and annual inspections from the office, and that facilities caring for children 2.5 years of age or younger need an automatic sprinkler system or direct exits to the exterior from the rooms where children younger than 2.5 receive care; licensing is with the Office of Early Childhood. Hospitals: KDHE’s K.A.R. 28-34-32b requires plans by a Kansas-licensed architect except for minor alterations, the architect’s written certification to the licensing agency before construction that the contract documents comply, and notice to the State Fire Marshal at the preliminary planning stage. Nursing facilities: KDADS’s K.A.R. 26-40-302 requires new facilities and additions to meet the local codes and the editions in K.A.R. 26-39-105, and sets its own resident unit, room, toilet room, and shower rules. Small adult care homes: K.A.R. 22-11-8 applies NFPA 101 as adopted in K.A.R. 22-1-3. LP gas: K.A.R. 22-8-5 requires a marketer to send an application with scaled drawings no larger than 11 by 17 inches and get State Fire Marshal approval before building or making a major modification to a bulk storage or transfer facility over 2,000 gallons of aggregate water capacity, a retail dispensing tank, a cylinder storage and filling facility, a vehicle fuel dispensing station, a service station, or any other facility where LP gas is handled or used, in addition to local permits. Elevators: the State Fire Marshal’s elevator safety program issues installation and alteration permits after plan review under the Kansas Elevator Safety Act, which it cites as K.S.A. 44-1801 to 44-1823, only to a Kansas-licensed elevator contractor and for a $400 fee, has applied ASME A17.1 (2022) since July 1, 2024, and notes that Wichita conducts its own inspections.
State property follows the Department of Administration. Its Building Design and Construction Manual (July 2026) says a Permit to Build is required on every project built on State property and is issued by the Office of Facilities and Property Management on Form 125 once the code footprint, any temporary egress plans, and the construction documents are accepted. The State Fire Marshal reviews, accepts, and signs code footprints and temporary egress plans for the Statehouse, the Board of Regents, the State Fair, Corrections, the Schools for the Deaf and Blind, the Department for Aging and Disability Services, Veterans Affairs, and the University of Kansas Health System; the office does so for the Adjutant General, Administration, the Historical Society, Labor, Transportation, Wildlife and Parks, the Bureau of Investigation, the Highway Patrol, Commerce, and the Insurance Department. Form 120 goes with each submittal, Form 105 asks whether a code footprint is required, and Form 130 sends fire alarm and fire suppression shop drawings to the office rather than the State Fire Marshal, except for health care occupancies, with no installation before the office accepts them. Under K.S.A. 75-1262 the Secretary of Administration officially accepts a completed project before the agency may occupy it, unless the contractor agrees in writing to finish the work, and may use city or county inspection services, and K.S.A. 58-1304 makes the Secretary the accessibility enforcer for state facilities and any facility on state property, local governments the enforcers for their own buildings, and the building inspector the governmental entity designates the enforcer for other new work, with the Attorney General overseeing enforcement. K.A.R. 1-62-1, effective in 1989, still names ANSI A117.1-1986 under an earlier version of K.S.A. 58-1301, while the statute now points to the federal Title II and Title III rules, Form 110 to the 2010 ADA Standards, and Johnson County to ICC A117.1-2009, so record which standard each sheet follows. Permit routing is on the Kansas page, and the model codes have their own guides: IBC, IFC, IRC, NFPA 101, IECC, and NFPA 70.
Gather the code footprint, the reviewing offices, and each discipline’s Kansas references
Collect the cover sheet and code analysis with every code and edition cited for each reviewer; the code footprint, full size and the sealed 11 by 17 inch reduction, with its narrative; floor plans for every level including basements and mezzanines, sections, elevations, wall types, and door and hardware schedules; the life safety plan with occupant loads, rated enclosures, corridors and separations, horizontal exits, smoke compartments, and exterior exits; the site plan with fire department access roads, hydrants, fire department connections, and distances to property lines; the sprinkler, standpipe, and fire alarm drawings with the control panel and annunciators; temporary egress and phasing plans for work in an occupied building; the mechanical drawings with fire dampers and kitchen hood suppression; the electrical drawings with emergency lighting, exit signs, and the generator; the plumbing and fuel gas drawings, including any LP gas tank; elevator drawings; the energy compliance report; the accessibility plans; and the specifications.
Add the address and whether it is inside a city or in an unincorporated area, the county, who owns the land (a State agency, a school district, a college, another public body, or a private owner), the occupancy groups with their occupant loads, the stories and floor area, any licensing agency (KDHE, KDADS, or the Office of Early Childhood) and whether the building takes Medicare or Medicaid, the ages of the children in a child care use, whether the local department reviews under a memorandum of understanding with the State Fire Marshal, and the first submittal date to each office. Read the statutes on the Revisor of Statutes’ site, the regulations on the Kansas Administrative Regulations site, the code footprint rules and forms on the State Fire Marshal’s plans review page, the State property forms on the Design, Construction, and Compliance forms page, and the local adoption on the city or county site.
Trace the Kansas codes and reviewers through the set
| Review question | Sources to compare | Decision to record |
|---|---|---|
| Who reviews | Address, city or unincorporated status, landowner, occupancy groups and occupant loads, licensing agency | Record the city or county building department, the State Fire Marshal where K.A.R. 22-1-7 lists the occupancy or the site is a college, the Office of Facilities and Property Management for State property, and KDHE, KDADS, or the Office of Early Childhood where the use is licensed. |
| Code editions by reviewer | Cover sheet, code footprint narrative, each discipline’s title page, the local ordinance or resolution, K.A.R. 22-1-3, Form 110 | Confirm the local edition in force on the submittal date, the 2006-based Kansas Fire Prevention Code for the State Fire Marshal, and the Form 110 editions on every discipline’s title page for State property, and flag a 2024 IFC cited as the Kansas Fire Prevention Code. |
| Code footprint contents | Code footprint sheets and narrative, the seal, the 11 by 17 inch reduction | Check each graphic and narrative item K.A.R. 22-1-7 lists, from the bar scale, occupant loads, and enclosure ratings to the responding fire service, actual and allowable areas, and water supply, and the Kansas-licensed design professional’s seal. |
| Code footprint against the drawings | Code footprint, floor plans, wall types, door schedule, site plan, sprinkler and alarm drawings | Check that occupant loads, ratings, separations, exits, the alarm panel, fire department connections, and hydrants match, and that temporary egress, phasing, alarm, and sprinkler deferred submittals are listed where the work needs them. |
| Schools, child care, and health care | Owner, occupancy, children’s ages, licensing and Medicare status, seal and certification notes | Record the K.S.A. 31-150 sealed certification for a school, the code footprint for a college, the sprinkler or direct-exit basis for rooms for the youngest children, and the KDHE, KDADS, and federal editions a hospital or nursing facility must show. |
| Energy and accessibility | Energy notes and compliance report, accessible route, toilet rooms, parking, owner and funding | Record the local IECC edition, the 2006 IECC that K.S.A. 66-1227 names for new commercial and industrial work, the State energy rule for State buildings, and the accessibility standard each sheet follows against K.S.A. 58-1301 and the local code. |
| Single-family houses | Livable floor area without garage and basement, lot, IRC edition cited, sprinkler notes, permit dates | For a new house under 2,500 square feet on its own lot, record whether it uses the 2018 IRC under 2026 Senate Bill 418, flag a required residential sprinkler system under K.S.A. 12-16,219, and track the 15-day and 60-day permit clocks. |
Fire and life safety sheets continue in the IFC guide, the NFPA 101 guide, the means of egress guide, the IBC Chapter 7 guide, the occupancy classification guide, the construction types guide, the IBC Chapter 9 guide, and the occupant load calculator; sprinkler and alarm documents in the NFPA 13, NFPA 13R, and NFPA 72 guides, the fire sprinkler checklist, and the fire alarm drawing checklist; health care in the NFPA 99, FGI, and NFPA 110 guides; fuel gas and LP gas in the NFPA 54 and NFPA 58 guides; elevators in the ASME A17.1 guide and the elevator and conveying checklist; energy in the IECC and ASHRAE 90.1 guides; houses in the IRC guide; storm shelters in the ICC 500 guide; and accessible details in the ADA Standards and ICC A117.1 guides and the accessibility checklist. The local building codes guide explains how a local ordinance and its amendments go into a review. Neighboring state codes are in the Missouri guide for sites across the state line, the Nebraska State Building Code guide, the Oklahoma Uniform Building Code guide, and the Colorado guide.
Example: a child care center in Overland Park
Hypothetical example. An operator plans a new one-story child care center for 90 children, infants included, in Overland Park, first submitted to the city in October 2026. The cover sheet cites only the 2024 IBC and IFC as adopted by Overland Park, the code analysis says no automatic sprinkler system is required, the infant rooms open only to the corridor, and the project schedule has no State Fire Marshal submittal.
K.A.R. 22-1-7 requires a code footprint, prepared by a Kansas-licensed design professional, to be submitted to the State Fire Marshal for review and approval for any group E occupancy, including any day care facility for more than 24 persons, and for any group I occupancy, so the center needs one whichever classification the designer uses. The State Fire Marshal’s child care page says child care centers must meet the 2006 International Fire Code and that facilities caring for children 2.5 years of age or younger need an automatic sprinkler system or direct exits to the exterior from the rooms where children younger than 2.5 receive care. The State Fire Marshal reviews to the Kansas Fire Prevention Code in K.A.R. 22-1-3, which adopts the 2006 IBC and IFC, while the city reviews to its 2024 adoption, so the code footprint narrative should list the codes each reviewer uses. Confirm the sprinkler or exit basis and the code footprint route with the State Fire Marshal, and ask the city whether a memorandum of understanding with the State Fire Marshal applies.
The architect adds a code footprint with the occupant loads, ratings, exits, fire alarm panel, fire department connection, hydrants, and codes used; the fire protection engineer adds a sprinkler system or the architect adds direct exterior exits from the infant rooms; and the operator sends the code footprint with Form 803 to the State Fire Marshal at least 30 days before it is needed and contacts the Office of Early Childhood about licensing. The finding is a code-basis and reviewer conflict; the State Fire Marshal and the Overland Park building official decide compliance.
Review a Kansas set with Groundbook
Upload the current drawings and specifications to Groundbook, and state the edition, amendments, and review scope in your instructions. Kansas statutes are free on the Revisor of Statutes’ site and the Kansas Administrative Regulations on the Secretary of State’s rules site, the State Fire Marshal posts its code footprint and child care guidance and its forms, the Office of Facilities and Property Management posts Form 110 and the Building Design and Construction Manual, and cities and counties such as Overland Park, Sedgwick County, and Johnson County post their adoptions. Upload the statutes, K.A.R. 22-1-3 and 22-1-7, the agency rules for the building type, Form 110 for State property, and the city or county adoption with its amendments as code files, with the IBC, IFC, IRC, IECC, NFPA 101, NFPA 13, NFPA 72, and the other standards the project relies on, in each edition a reviewer uses, from copies you are licensed to use where the license permits uploading them. See how Groundbook works with local and licensed codes.
Compare the cover sheet, code footprint, life safety plan, and every discipline’s general notes with the architectural, structural, fire protection, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, energy, and accessibility documents. Flag a building or fire reviewer that does not fit the city or county, unincorporated status, landowner, occupancy, and licensing agency in my instructions, code editions other than the ones my instructions give for each reviewer, a code footprint that is missing where the occupancy needs one or that lacks the graphic and narrative items in the supplied K.A.R. 22-1-7, occupant loads, ratings, exits, fire department connections, or hydrants that differ between the code footprint and the drawings, missing temporary egress or phasing plans for work in an occupied building, rooms for the youngest children in a child care use without the sprinkler or direct exit the supplied State Fire Marshal guidance describes, energy and accessibility references that do not match the supplied statutes and local code, and a residential sprinkler or IRC edition requirement on a small single-family house that the supplied statutes bar. Use the supplied statutes, regulations, local codes, and model codes and cite both sources.
Groundbook compares the set with reference documents you upload, including licensed codes and standards you hold, and links each potential finding to the note or sheet and to the Kansas statute, regulation, city or county code, agency form, or model code. It has no built-in library of licensed codes, runs no calculations, and does not design anything. It does not decide whether a city, a county, the State Fire Marshal, or the Office of Facilities and Property Management has jurisdiction, whether a code footprint is required, which edition governs where a regulation, an agency page, and a local list differ, or whether a local amendment applies; each finding is a question for the responsible design professional.
Document review does not certify compliance, issue a permit, Permit to Build, code footprint approval, or certificate of occupancy, or replace the design professional, the city or county building official, the State Fire Marshal, a local fire chief, the Office of Facilities and Property Management, KDHE, KDADS, the Office of Early Childhood, or a licensed elevator inspector.