Construction documents · Ohio
An Ohio review should identify the certified building department responsible for plan approval. Keep the building set and separately prepared fire-system documents coordinated while preserving each designer’s and reviewer’s role.
Your codes, connected to your drawings
Groundbook can review your drawings against the state and local code PDFs you upload. Add the adopted code books and amendments that apply to your project, then review potential issues with links to the supporting sources.
Upload the applicable code PDFs alongside the drawing set. Include the edition, local amendments, and project requirements.
Set code PDFs to Code and Use as reference. Mark the drawings you want reviewed as Check this file.
Follow the linked drawing and reference, check applicability, and have the responsible professional verify the issue.
State and local references
Examples of references you can bring into Groundbook. Confirm the adopted edition, effective date, and project scope with the reviewing authority, then upload the applicable PDFs.
Include the Ohio rules and incorporated building reference for the applicable nonresidential work.
Use the residential reference where applicable and confirm the certified department’s submission requirements.
Code names link to official agency or publisher resources. Reviewed September 9, 2026. The reference set comes from the files you supply.
Ohio reference guide
Ohio’s administrative rules establish Board of Building Standards certification for building departments and personnel. Confirm the certified department and its scope before relying on a municipal or county submission route.
Ohio Administrative Code: certification ruleThe certification rule also addresses fire-protection-system designers. Confirm the required professional submissions for sprinklers, alarms, and special-hazard systems alongside the department’s current plan-approval checklist.
Ohio Administrative Code: certification ruleSources reviewed September 9, 2026. Confirm current requirements and project applicability with the reviewing authority.
Prepare a useful review
Use this preparation list for Groundbook alongside the official permit checklist.
Provide the responsible certified department, building use, applicable Ohio code and amendments, and the current submission checklist.
Supply fire-protection drawings, architectural life-safety plans, reflected ceilings, and mechanical/electrical interfaces. Label deferred systems and responsible designers.
Bring the department’s review comments and response log with the current consultant issue. Check whether a correction appears everywhere it is referenced.
Identify which files are being checked, which are references, and which revisions are superseded. Include reviewer comments and responses where they explain an unresolved decision.
Use the drawing-register templateFrom documents to decisions
Compare stated design information with the code and local references you supply. Verify scope, exceptions, and the source behind each potential issue.
Review code referencesLook for incomplete information and conflicting requirements before submission. Assign each verified finding to the responsible designer.
Prepare for submissionCheck relationships across drawings, schedules, specifications, and reports. Resolve the source conflict and carry the decision into the issued set.
Review the whole packageBefore you start
No. Groundbook reviews supplied documents and flags potential issues. Department certification, professional design responsibilities, plan approval, and inspections remain part of the official process.
Supply the current drawing set and schedules, relevant specifications and reports, the applicable code and amendment PDFs, and the reviewing authority’s checklist. Identify the edition, project scope, and permit stage. Groundbook reviews the supplied evidence; do not assume every local requirement is already available.
No. Groundbook surfaces potential conflicts and omissions with links to source documents for professional verification. It does not issue permits, certify compliance, provide permit-expediting services, or replace the authority having jurisdiction.
Official source directory
Building-department/personnel certification and fire-system designer requirements.
Bring your drawings and the references that govern the project.