Building Safety Inspection (BSIP) in Fort Lauderdale

The notice

Fort Lauderdale’s page says the notice comes from the Building Official by certified mail, to the property owner, the association or both, in the year the building is due for inspection. Keep it: the city’s submittal form asks for the tracking number from that notification.

Filing the report

Fort Lauderdale takes the filing electronically only — its page says paper submissions are no longer accepted. The documents go in through the LauderBuild Plan Room, under the application the city calls the Building Safety Inspection Program Application (BSIP). Each one is uploaded as a separate file; the page says not to combine them.

The city’s forms

The city’s page lists the forms that must be completed and attached to the application: its own Building Safety Inspection Submittal Form, a structural inspection form and an electrical inspection form. The structural form it links is headed Broward County BORA, the county’s Board of Rules and Appeals. The Plan Room’s list of document types marks both inspection forms as requiring the digital sign and seal.

The submittal form

Fort Lauderdale’s submittal form asks for the property’s folio number and the building’s square footage. It is marked either as an initial submittal or as a Repairs Required Submittal, which also asks for the permit numbers of the repairs. Its checklist names the structural and the electrical report forms as part of the package.

Signatures and files

Fort Lauderdale requires every document to be digitally signed and sealed. The city’s Digital Signature Policy does not accept a self-signed signature, and it names the certification authorities it approves for digital certificates. The Plan Room’s general standards ask for PDF files and rule out encrypted or password-protected ones.

After filing

Once the application is in, Fort Lauderdale’s page mentions one step: an e-mail notification when it has been accepted. It does not say how the owner is told the result of the review or what document closes the case. Under the Plan Room’s general rules, once a package has been submitted for review, more documents cannot be uploaded without permission from City staff.

Repairs

When repairs are needed, Fort Lauderdale’s page calls for a written, signed and sealed letter to both the owner and the Building Official, stating whether the building can stay safely occupied while they are made. Once they are finished, it has the licensed professional who did the inspection re-inspect and provide an amended report, with a signed and sealed letter confirming that all repairs are complete.

If it is late

Fort Lauderdale’s program page does not say what happens when a report is late: it names no hearing body and describes no extension of the time to file. The one exception it mentions concerns repairs, whose time — in the rows further down — applies unless the Building Official specifies otherwise. For anything else, the notice and the Building Safety Program settle it.

Building office City of Fort Lauderdale Development Services Department Phone: (954) 828-5932

Read on the website of the City of Fort Lauderdale Development Services Department: October 9, 2026