Palm Beach Gardens, FL Building Safety: Building Inspections (2026)

Section 110.1 of the Florida Building Code, as locally adopted by Palm Beach Gardens Code Section 86-27, makes any permitted construction or work subject to inspection by the building official, and the permit holder must keep the work accessible and exposed until it is approved; passing an inspection does not excuse a separate code violation. Section 110.2.1 lets the building official examine existing building, electrical, gas, mechanical or plumbing systems before issuing a permit to alter, move or change occupancy, and again at any point before, during or after the permitted work.

Section 110.3 assigns the sequence: for a building, the required stops are the foundation inspection (after trenching, forms and reinforcing steel), the slab or under-floor inspection, the lintel/tie-beam and masonry inspection, the sheathing inspection covering roof, wall and floor sheathing and fasteners, the framing inspection covering window and door bucks, trusses and fire blocking, the roofing inspection covering dry-in, insulation, roof coverings and flashing, the lath/drywall inspection, and the final inspection once the building is complete and ready for occupancy. Parallel required-inspection lists apply to electrical work (underground, rough-in, low-voltage and final), plumbing (underground, rough-in and final, with Section 312 of the Florida Building Code, Plumbing governing required tests), mechanical, and gas piping, plus a site-debris cleanup requirement before final approval.

Section 110.3.3 bars covering reinforcing steel or structural framing without a building official release, and Section 110.3.5 requires shoring on threshold buildings to be designed and inspected by a Florida-licensed engineer before the threshold inspector's mandatory inspections. The building official, upon notification from the permit holder, makes each inspection and either releases that portion of construction or lists the violations that must be corrected.