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Pick your branch
Each Groundworks branch has its own page covering every jurisdiction that Groundworks branch touches in the Unlikely Professionals portal and open permit tracker: the legal frame for that state, a tiered matrix of who accepts engineer or third-party inspection reports for which product types, and per-jurisdiction notes on how the mechanism works in practice. Branches are grouped by Groundworks region; both regions below sit in the East Division.
Mid-Atlantic Region
BALT
Baltimore
Maryland
Baltimore City & County plus central Maryland and the Eastern Shore. Maryland has no statewide third-party policy mandate: acceptance is jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction, and incorporated towns often run their own building offices.
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MAN
Manassas
DC Metro · NoVA · MD · WV Panhandle
44 building-code authorities across DC, Northern Virginia, the northern Shenandoah Valley, suburban/Southern/Western Maryland, and the West Virginia eastern panhandle: 19 in Virginia, 18 in Maryland, the District, and 6 in the WV panhandle. Four distinct legal regimes in one branch.
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RIC
Richmond
Central Virginia · NC
49 jurisdictions: 47 Virginia localities plus 2 North Carolina counties. Virginia's VUSBC §113.7 requires every building official to maintain a written third-party inspection policy.
richmond.unlikely.place
VB
Virginia Beach
Hampton Roads · Eastern Shore
The expansion zone: 19 target jurisdictions, 16 of which share the Hampton Roads Regional Special Inspection Guidelines, so one qualification package works across all of them.
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ROAN
Roanoke
Southwest Virginia · WV
31 Virginia jurisdictions plus McDowell County WV, covering the Roanoke and New River valleys and the far southwest coalfield counties.
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WVA
West Virginia
Greenbrier · Raleigh · Wyoming
West Virginia's building code is local-option: some jurisdictions enforce the 2018 I-codes, some issue permits only, and some have no building department at all. The matrix maps which is which.
westvirginia.unlikely.place
North Atlantic Region
CT
Connecticut
New Haven & Fairfield Counties
The uniform-code state: one State Building Code, enforced town by town by licensed building officials, with no county governments and no local amendments. One statewide frame answers most of the matrix.
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NH
New Hampshire
Southern NH · Merrimack Valley · Seacoast
The statute state: SB 188 (2025) gives licensed engineers a statewide lane to perform code inspections in place of the building official, with permit-fee reductions written into the law. 25 jurisdictions from Hooksett across southern New Hampshire, plus flagged MA/ME territory.
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