Miami-Dade Recertification
Doral’s Building Department runs the recertification: reports go in at City Hall or through the city’s permitting system. One team delivers it complete, on the county templates Doral accepts.
- Engineer
- Juan Tercero, PE., M.Sc. · Florida PE 105256
Your city
How building recertification is handled in Doral
In Doral the recertification sits with the city’s Building Department, which lists it among its programs and publishes a guide of its own. The city’s page says that, in addition to its local ordinances, Doral follows and enforces the Code of Miami-Dade County. The city accepts the county’s document templates for the reports; what its pages say is set out here, topic by topic.
- The notice
- Doral’s page says the owners of the properties that require certification receive a Notice of Required Recertification, which starts the process, and that a record is created in the city’s permitting system. Doral’s pages do not say how the notice is delivered. For the portal account, the page sends every user to the city’s Videos and Tutorials page.
- Filing the report
- The Doral Building Department’s guide gives two routes. In person, the completed reports go to the solution center on the second floor of Doral City Hall. Online, the applicant creates a contact in the city’s permitting system — CSS, the Citizen Self-Service portal — searches for “Building Recertification” and selects apply. The program page adds a caution for an initial recertification; see the first question below.
- Digital or paper
- Doral’s page wants each page of the structural and electrical reports signed and sealed, unless the report is submitted electronically with a verifiable digital signature. Per the guide, digital signatures can only be transmitted electronically; a wet or hard seal must be submitted in person. The page’s tip: save the file as a PDF before the signature goes on, so the uploaded report is unlocked.
- The city’s forms
- Doral’s guide says Miami-Dade County’s document templates are accepted, and the program page points to the county’s page for the templates and forms. It also notes that the guidelines and report templates were revised, with the approval of the Board of Rules and Appeals. The complete recertification we deliver goes on those templates.
- What goes with it
- Among its minimum documents, Doral’s guide lists a structural and an electrical cover letter, each signed, sealed and dated, and, where the rating of the building’s electrical service requires it, a thermographic inspection report. Doral’s program page adds, for a property with more than one building, a site plan or survey that locates each and clearly identifies the one the report is about.
- Extensions
- Doral’s page says a one-time extension, of a length the page sets, is permissible provided the building is safe to occupy. The request is a signed and sealed letter from the professional of record, e-mailed to the Building Official. The letter must include, among other items, confirmation that the building is safe to occupy while the final report is issued, and whether repairs are needed.
- If it is late
- Doral’s page says that expired processes, and buildings that have failed to be recertified, will be referred to code compliance for immediate action. It does not say what that action is, and it names no hearing body. The time Doral’s owners have to file is the county’s, in the rows below.
- Older names
- Doral’s guide and its department directory still label the Building Recertification Program as the former 40-year recertification, and the city’s tutorials page sends owners to its “Building Milestone page” for the requirements to recertify a building. The program page also still carries dates that have already passed; the ages and days in force are the county’s, in the rows further down.
Building office City of Doral Building Department 8401 NW 53rd Terrace Doral, FL 33166 Phone: (305) 593-6700
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When it applies
The deadlines that apply in Doral
The schedule is Miami-Dade County’s, printed here for a building in Doral; the date on your own notice is the one that counts.
- First due in Doral: At 30 years — 25 for condominium and cooperative buildings of three or more stories within 3 miles of the coast.
- Then in Doral: Every 10 years, for the life of the structure.
- Time to file in Doral: 90 days from the Notice of Required Inspection.
- If repairs are needed in Doral: 150 days from the Notice to finish repairs that need no permit and to obtain permits for the rest.
- Condominiums & co-ops in Doral: The recertification serves as compliance with the state milestone inspection — no separate milestone report is filed.
Miami-Dade County’s rows, for Doral. Source: Code of Miami-Dade County, Section 8-11(f) · Last verified:
Questions & answers
Questions boards in Doral ask
Can we file our first recertification report online in Doral?
Doral’s pages leave that open. The guide describes an online application, but the program page says the permitting system accepts “renewal” recertification reports, after an initial recertification, and tells applicants not to apply for an “initial Building Milestone recertification” through that work class. The guide’s other route is in person, at Doral City Hall. Send us the letter and we confirm with the Building Department which route your building takes.
Does Doral ask for the parking-lot documents in a recertification?
In part. Doral’s guide lists the parking-lot lighting requirements among its minimum documents, so that part goes in where it applies to the property. The guardrail document is another matter: the city’s page says the parking-lot guardrail requirement is not required for the City of Doral and applies to unincorporated Miami-Dade County only. We confirm with the Building Department what your property’s package must carry.
Which buildings in Doral do not go through recertification?
Doral’s pages list single-family homes, duplexes and buildings within the occupant-load and floor-area limits they give. Per the guide, an owner who believes a building is exempt requests the exemption by e-mail to the program’s address, with the full property address and the reasoning.
What happens after we file the recertification report in Doral?
Doral’s pages do not describe the review: who reads the report, how the owner hears back or what closes the case. What they give is a reference: each building in process is assigned a number that begins with “BDAD”. The page says file names and letters can carry it, with the words “Building Recertification”. Questions go to the e-mail address Doral gives for the program.
What does Doral say about repairs after the recertification report?
Doral’s recertification page has no section on repairs. Its one mention is in the extension request: the letter must indicate whether repairs are needed and confirm that the building is safe to occupy while the final report is issued. The time allowed for repairs in Doral is the county’s and is in the rows above. What the Building Department asks for the repairs themselves, we confirm with the office.
One team
The complete recertification for a building in Doral
Next step
Send the Notice of Required Recertification for your Doral building — a phone photo is enough — or, with no notice yet, the address and the year built. We read it, confirm what Doral’s Building Department is asking for and by when, and reply with a proposal for the complete recertification.
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.