NYC Administrative Code

§ 27-724 — Construction required for or affecting the support of adjacent properties or buildings.

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This section mandates controlled inspection for underpinning operations and construction affecting adjacent properties or buildings, except for excavations extending less than ten feet below grade. Detailed plans or drawings for such constructions must be approved by the architect or engineer. Applies to building owners conducting relevant construction activities.

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§ 27-724 Construction required for or affecting the support of adjacent properties or buildings.

AC § 27-724

Except in cases where a proposed excavation will extend less than ten feet below the legally established grade, all underpinning operations and the construction and excavation of temporary or permanent cofferdams, caissons, braced excavated surfaces, or other constructions or excavations required for or affecting the support of adjacent properties or buildings shall be subject to controlled inspection. The details of underpinning, cofferdams, caissons, bracing, or other constructions required for the support of adjacent properties or buildings shall be shown on the plans or prepared in the form of shop or detail drawings and shall be approved by the architect or engineer who prepared the plans.

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