The other thing you’ll see a lot of are essentially fake certifications. The International Code Council (Residential Code, Building Code, Plumbing Code, Fire Code, Wildland Urban Interface Code, Swimming Pool and Spa Code, and pretty much everything structure-related but electrical code for most of the US) didn’t want to get too bogged down in the details regarding specific certifications since different jurisdictions have different ways they handle licensing, so lots of stuff requires a “Registered Design Professional” as kinda a placeholder.
Then jurisdictions adopting the ICC codes are supposed to amend the codes in the adopting ordinance to get more specific. I literally did this last week when updating the city to a newer code cycle (the ICC codes change every 3 years, and you never want to be the guinea pig on the newest so we went from 2015 to 2021).
But most places leave the language as written when adopting the ordinances, so you have groups like the “National Council of Building Designer Certification” that are essentially registration mills so people can claim they’re a registered design professional so uneducated hacks can build shitty buildings cheap.
He was hired by the real estate flipper who sold us the house, so we don’t actually know what his qualifications were.
The other thing you’ll see a lot of are essentially fake certifications. The International Code Council (Residential Code, Building Code, Plumbing Code, Fire Code, Wildland Urban Interface Code, Swimming Pool and Spa Code, and pretty much everything structure-related but electrical code for most of the US) didn’t want to get too bogged down in the details regarding specific certifications since different jurisdictions have different ways they handle licensing, so lots of stuff requires a “Registered Design Professional” as kinda a placeholder.
Then jurisdictions adopting the ICC codes are supposed to amend the codes in the adopting ordinance to get more specific. I literally did this last week when updating the city to a newer code cycle (the ICC codes change every 3 years, and you never want to be the guinea pig on the newest so we went from 2015 to 2021).
But most places leave the language as written when adopting the ordinances, so you have groups like the “National Council of Building Designer Certification” that are essentially registration mills so people can claim they’re a registered design professional so uneducated hacks can build shitty buildings cheap.