Jurisdiction Matters: Removing Friction Through Automation

By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. 

Read this white paper to understand the role jurisdiction plays in roofing projects and how to use it to your advantage to identify accurate building codes. 

Geography plays a much larger role in our life and the choices we make than we would think. We often don’t consider things like jurisdiction until it impacts the decisions we are making.  

Building codes are adopted to provide municipalities a medium for the city or county to protect its citizens. They are specifically intended to protect people from faulty building practices, ensuring that architects, engineers and builders all create structures that are sound and able to serve their intended purpose. When each municipality adopts different codes, it means that geographic differences will impact both building standards (structure specifications) and codes, which draw from the standards as guidelines. 

Take school districts for example, when picking out your dream home you are also making the decision of what school your child will attend. The choice of school for your children is chosen by the location of your home, which can make these decisions complicated and frustrating. This is just one example of how geography and jurisdiction create invisible boundaries in our everyday lives. More commonly, we see these kinds of limitations being made when we decide to make improvements on our homes and apply for a construction permit. 

In this white paper, these invisible boundaries and their pitfalls are considered. You will be given a state of the union on how frustrated contractors and insurance adjusters are wasting their time on each claim trying to find out which municipality has jurisdiction on each property. You will also gain an understanding on the critical role accurate municipal building code data plays in the preparation of estimates and construction projects across the country.  

You will also learn how technology plays an important role in identifying jurisdiction. OneClick Code is the solution for finding the correct jurisdiction and accurate building codes, instantly. Learn how this technology can bring to light the necessary information to validate an estimate. Through their application programming interface (API), mobile app, or easy-to-use web application, OneClick Code was built for property owners, insurers, claims adjusters, and contractors 

Read the Jurisdiction Matters: Removing Friction Through Automation White Paper for more information. 

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