Broward BSIP
Coral Springs runs Broward’s BSIP through its Building Department, which takes the reports online in eTRAKiT under a submittal form of its own. One team prepares the complete inspection package for your building.
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How the Building Safety Inspection Program runs in Coral Springs
In Coral Springs the Building Safety Inspection Program is handled by the City of Coral Springs Building Department. Its page sends readers to the Board of Rules and Appeals’ policy for the detailed rules, and keeps the filing in the city’s hands: a required Coral Springs submittal form, the county’s structural and electrical report forms, and an upload through eTRAKiT. Below, subject by subject, is what the city’s pages say; the times that apply come from Broward and are printed lower on this page.
- The program page
- The Building Department’s page says the program took effect in Broward County long before its requirements were changed, and that it now calls for structural and electrical safety inspections once a building reaches the county’s first age, then again at a fixed interval. For the details it points to the Board of Rules and Appeals’ policy, which the city also posts while the Board’s own website is down.
- The notice
- The city’s submittal form refers to the owner’s Notice of Required Building Safety Inspection by name, so keep that letter with the file. Coral Springs’ pages do not say how or when the letter is delivered; if a neighbour’s building got one and yours did not, the Building Department is the office to ask.
- Filing the report
- Coral Springs takes BSIP reports electronically, in eTRAKiT, its online permitting system. The city’s step-by-step page has the filer log in to a public or contractor account, enter the project number and select the project, then attach the documents with the paper-clip icon. It also says payment comes first, before anything is uploaded.
- Separate PDF files
- Every piece goes up on its own. The city’s instructions say the reports and the submittal form must be separate PDF files, each named as the page lists them: Submittal Form, Structural Inspection Report, Electrical Inspection Report and Inspection Photos.
- The city’s submittal form
- The Building Department marks its Building Safety Inspection Program Submittal Form as required. It asks for the project number, the job address, present use, subdivision, lot, block, zoning and square footage, and for up to two engineers or architects with their license numbers, a phone and an e-mail address being mandatory for each. It must be filled in with black or blue ink, or typed.
- Three kinds of submittal
- The form is marked as one of three submittals: the initial required inspection, the inspection after repairs, or a recheck. For a recheck it asks for the permit numbers of the repairs, so the repair permits and the new report reach the city together.
- The county’s report forms
- Behind the city’s cover sheet, the package carries the Broward County Building Safety Inspection Report Forms, structural and electrical. Because the Board of Rules and Appeals’ website is unavailable, Coral Springs posts copies of those forms, the Board’s policy and its general guidelines on a page of its own.
- When repairs stay open
- Coral Springs’ Special Magistrate dockets list code cases headed Building Safety Inspection Program Repairs, brought in the name of the Chief Building Official. That is where the city takes buildings whose repairs remain open; the dockets do not describe what comes before a case is filed.
Building office City of Coral Springs Building Department 9500 West Sample Road Coral Springs, FL 33065 Phone: (954) 344-1025
Read on the website of the City of Coral Springs Building Department:
When it applies
The deadlines that apply in Coral Springs
The schedule is the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals’, printed here for a building in Coral Springs; the date on your own notice is the one that counts.
- First due in Coral Springs: At 25 years, counted from the certificate of occupancy.
- Then in Coral Springs: Every 10 years.
- Time to file in Coral Springs: 180 days from receiving the Notice of Required Inspection. Older guides still say 90 days; the policy in force since August 9, 2024 gives 180. Your city’s letter states its own date.
- If repairs are needed in Coral Springs: 180 days from the date of the report, under permit, unless the Building Official sets a different time.
- Condominiums & co-ops in Coral Springs: The BSIP report serves as phase one and phase two of the state milestone inspection.
Broward County’s rows, for Coral Springs. Source: Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals, Policy #05-05 · Florida Building Code, Broward County Amendments, Section 110.15 · Last verified:
Questions & answers
Questions boards in Coral Springs ask
Where does a Coral Springs BSIP report get uploaded?
In eTRAKiT, the city’s online permitting system, under the building’s project. It starts with an account: citizens register under the Public Login section, and a contractor who has already done business with the Building Department activates the account it has on file. Once logged in, the filer finds the project by its number and attaches each document as a PDF of its own.
Does Coral Springs want its own form on top of the county’s report forms?
Yes. The Building Department lists the City of Coral Springs Submittal Form as required, and its upload instructions name it first among the attachments. The county’s structural and electrical report forms go behind it. The complete BSIP inspection package we deliver is assembled on both, the city’s cover sheet and the Board’s forms.
How do we find our building’s BSIP project in Coral Springs?
The Building Department’s page links a BSIP Project Search to eTRAKiT’s records search, and the city’s account page notes that most eTRAKiT searches need no login; paying, applying or scheduling does. The upload steps start from the project number, so if it cannot be found, the Building Department’s permitting line is where to ask.
What does Coral Springs do when BSIP repairs are not finished?
Its Special Magistrate dockets show it: code cases titled Building Safety Inspection Program Repairs, presented by the Chief Building Official. The time Broward gives for repairs is in the row “If repairs are needed”. If repairs on your building are still open, send us the report and whatever the city has sent, and we read where the file stands.
Does Coral Springs hold workshops on the BSIP?
Its Building Department’s page invites readers to register for its Permitting & Building Safety Inspection Program Workshops, through a sign-up form linked there, and to subscribe to the department’s updates. The page prints no schedule, so registering is the way to hear about the next session.
One team
The complete BSIP inspection and report for a building in Coral Springs
Next step
Send us the Coral Springs notice — any clear picture of the letter works — or, if none has come, where the building stands and roughly when it went up. We look the building up in the city’s BSIP project search and send back a proposal covering the whole inspection package.
Next step
A county notice in your hand, a building that worries you or a new project — describe it and attach what you have. A phone photo of the letter is enough. You hear back from the engineer, with questions or with a written proposal.
The proposal is free. We usually reply within two hours.