Miami-Dade Recertification
The Village of Pinecrest Building Department mails the recertification notice, takes the reports online and issues the approval letter. One team assembles your Pinecrest building’s complete recertification, item by item from the Village’s list.
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- Juan Tercero, PE., M.Sc. · Florida PE 105256
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How building recertification is handled in Pinecrest
In Pinecrest the recertification runs through the Village of Pinecrest Building Department, under the section of the Miami-Dade County Code its page cites. The Village warns owners early with courtesy notices, takes the reports electronically through its eTRAKiT permitting system and closes the file with an approval letter. Each row below is what Pinecrest’s own page says on one subject.
- Courtesy notices
- Pinecrest’s page says the Village provides advance courtesy notices of required recertifications where applicable — two of them, spaced ahead of the final notice. The point, it explains, is to give owners and building managers time to hire an engineer or architect and to budget for any repairs the codes may call for.
- The formal notice
- Pinecrest’s formal notice travels by certified mail, addressed by the Building Department to the owner or to whoever represents the owner. The Village’s page counts the owner’s time from receipt of what it calls the Notification of Building Recertification, so the day that envelope arrives is the date worth writing down.
- Filing the report
- Pinecrest accepts the reports electronically, through eTRAKiT, the Village’s online permitting system. Its page lists what to send: the structural and electrical recertification reports, the parking-lot illumination and guardrail documents, and the Pinecrest Building Recertification Submittal Form. It adds that all reports must be digitally signed and sealed.
- Guidelines and scope
- Under Recertification Resources, the Village links the recommended minimum inspection procedural guidelines meant for the architect or engineer, opening with the general considerations on the scope of structural inspections. Pinecrest’s page ties the reports to the guidelines of Miami-Dade County’s Board of Rules and Appeals and says they include an illumination survey of the parking areas.
- Repairs
- If the inspection shows that repairs or modifications are needed, Pinecrest’s page has the owner hire a contractor licensed by the State of Florida and pull permits from the Building Department before any work begins. After every permit passes its final inspection, the professional of record files a report stating that the repairs are complete and the building is safe for continued use.
- Extensions
- The Village’s page lets the Building Official grant an extension, for a limited period, either to file the report or to obtain the permits. The request is made in writing by the engineer or architect, and it must state that the building can stay occupied while the recertification is under way.
- Approval
- The reports go to the Building Department’s Governmental Compliance Section. Once they are approved, the Building Official issues a Building Recertification approval letter, sent to the owner and to the engineer or architect of record; Pinecrest’s page tells owners to keep that letter as proof of approval.
- If it is late
- Pinecrest’s page says that a report not in by the deadline leads to a Building Violation being issued against the property. It describes nothing beyond that — no hearing, no referral — so a building already past its date is a case to settle with the Building Department, notice in hand.
Building office Village of Pinecrest Building Department 12645 Pinecrest Parkway Pinecrest, FL 33156 Phone: (305) 234-2121
Read on the website of the Village of Pinecrest Building Department:
When it applies
The deadlines that apply in Pinecrest
The schedule is Miami-Dade County’s, printed here for a building in Pinecrest; the date on your own notice is the one that counts.
- First due in Pinecrest: At 30 years — 25 for condominium and cooperative buildings of three or more stories within 3 miles of the coast.
- Then in Pinecrest: Every 10 years, for the life of the structure.
- Time to file in Pinecrest: 90 days from the Notice of Required Inspection.
- If repairs are needed in Pinecrest: 150 days from the Notice to finish repairs that need no permit and to obtain permits for the rest.
- Condominiums & co-ops in Pinecrest: The recertification serves as compliance with the state milestone inspection — no separate milestone report is filed.
Miami-Dade County’s rows, for Pinecrest. Source: Code of Miami-Dade County, Section 8-11(f) · Last verified:
Questions & answers
Questions boards in Pinecrest ask
How does Pinecrest tell owners their building is due for recertification?
By certified mail, from the Building Department to the owner or the owner’s representative. Before that formal notice, Pinecrest’s page says the Village sends courtesy notices where applicable, so a building can hear about its cycle well in advance. Photograph whichever Pinecrest notice you hold and send it; the time it starts is the one under “Time to file” above.
Can the recertification report be filed online in Pinecrest?
Yes. The Village’s page says the reports may be submitted electronically through eTRAKiT, and it requires every report to be digitally signed and sealed. For a Pinecrest building, the complete recertification we deliver includes each item that page lists, the Village’s own submittal form among them.
Who can ask Pinecrest for more time to recertify?
The engineer or architect, in writing. Pinecrest’s page lets the Building Official extend, for a limited period, the deadline to file the report or to obtain permits, when the request states that the building may remain occupied during the recertification. The ordinary times are the county’s, under “Time to file” and “If repairs are needed” above.
Which buildings in Pinecrest are exempt from recertification?
Pinecrest’s page names single-family residences, duplexes and minor structures, and it defines a minor building by a ceiling on occupant load combined with a ceiling on gross area. Every other building comes due at the age under “First due” above and again under “Then”. If you cannot tell which side of that line a Pinecrest building falls on, its address and year built let us check.
Is Pinecrest’s recertification still called the 40-year recertification?
Only by its former name. Pinecrest’s page asks when the program changed from what it calls the 40 year Recertification process, and answers with the state’s milestone law for condominium and cooperative buildings and Miami-Dade County’s broader program that followed it. The ages that apply today are under “First due” above.
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The complete recertification for a building in Pinecrest
Next step
Holding a courtesy notice or a certified letter from the Village of Pinecrest Building Department? Send a phone photo of it — or, if nothing has come, the address and the year built — and we answer with what Pinecrest expects and 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.