S&B Internet Plan Review Scheduling

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1. Online request for Commercial Buildings Plan Review appointments, including fire protection systems.
2. Online request for Plumbing Plan Review appointments
3. Notice of Intent, Commercial Buildings Construction Site, Soil Erosion Control - Go to More Information.
4. Elevators: Elevator plan reviews are not scheduled in advance. The reviews are done in order of receipt in the Waukesha S&B office. Contact Brian Rausch, 262-521-5444, brian.rausch@wisconsin.gov.
5. POWTS Plan Reviews: Private Onsite Wastewater Treatment System plan reviews are not scheduled in advance. The reviews are done in order of receipt in each office. For more info, contact a POWTS plan reviewer.
6. Gas Systems are scheduled in advance by contacting Mike Verhagen, S&B Waukesha office, mike.verhagen@wisconsin.gov, 262-548-8617. More info on gas systems plan review.

  New Users It is strongly recommended that a new user review the User Manual.

The scheduler opens up new windows. To use the scheduler you will need to turn off or adjust your pop-up blocker (Go to Tools>Pop-up Blocker>Pop-up Blocker Settings. The Web addresses of the scheduler that you wish to allow pop-ups from are: apps.commerce.wi.gov; and apps.commerce.wi.gov). If you want to review Explorer's help info on pop-up blockers, go here.
Your security settings may need adjusting (Go to Tools>Internet Options>Privacy>Settings. In "Address of Website to allow" enter the two addresses just above.)
(Your "company" security policies should be considered when making pop-up and security setting changes.)
See complete information on the various plan reviews done by the Safety and Buildings Division. There may be other required reviews separate from the overall building plan review, such as plumbing and elevators.

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Contact the review office of your choice if you feel you may need to make an preliminary discussion appointment with a commercial buildings plan reviewer.

In the scheduler the symbol * next to a field means the field is required to be completed before submittal is accepted.

Web scheduling has two paths to create the “application form.”
1. The first path is to use the “Schedule a New Building Plan Review” for the initial submittal of a project. This initial submittal could be a petition, a footing foundation submittal, the typical building structural and architectural , or a footing and foundation and structural shell submittal.
2. The second path is to use the “Retrieve Information" for subsequent submittals to complete that building - HVAC, fire alarm, fire suppression, kitchen hood, interior bleacher, building architectural review following a petition or footing and foundation review, etc. Whenever possible use the “Retrieve” button, by entering in known S&B customer numbers.

If you do not have a Safety and Building Division customer number, be sure to have designer, owner, supervising professional, etc., contact information ready before you begin entering the appointment request on the web.

Be sure you have specific site location where possible, i.e. street address, specific municipality, county, etc.

Questions on scheduling may be emailed to DspsSbCredentialing@wi.gov.

Structural components are not scheduled. Submit the components to the office specified in the building plan approval letter, using form SBD-118, the plan review application form.

If you wish to submit multiple buildings on the same submittal you have two options, depending on the situation: Both options may be used on the same submittal transaction.
- For identical multiple buildings, just indicate the number of additional identical buildings on this screen.( Note that if you have 3 identical buildings you would enter 2 as
the additional identical buildings).
- For non-identical buildings After you have completed all the information for the first building, click on the “Save Building and Go to List”, then click on the “Add Building” button again and proceed to indicate the information for the next building. Repeat as necessary.

  What will happen when you schedule?
Someone wishing to schedule a commercial building plan review may enter required information about the plan review request and about project specifics into this web-based system and electronically submit it to the Safety and Buildings Division. Upon completion of entering, the submitter receives a summary message, including a transaction number. This transaction number combined with the designer's S&B customer identification numbers allow someone to check the status of the a review. See plan review status check page.

S&B plan entry staff review submitted data and coordinate it with existing customers, sites, and facilities, or create new ones. Staff then assigns the review as close to the desired review date as possible. Note that plan entry will attempt to honor choice of review office. However, if the balance of workload between plan review offices or availability of plan reviewers does not allow scheduling in the location specifically requested, a reviewer in another office may be assigned.

Plan entry will email you a confirmation form specifying the review date, office, and reviewer.

Plans and a copy of the confirmation form must be received in the scheduled office by 2:30 p.m. two working days prior to the scheduled date. This allows fiscal processing and marrying with previous appropriate files prior to the review.

Your plans will be reviewed on or shortly after the scheduled date.

The designer will receive an emailed letter of conditional approval upon review completion. Or, in cases where the plans are held for additional information, the designer will receive a phone call. There will be a follow-up paper letter if the hold cannot be resolved by phone/email/fax.

  Plan review submittal questions? S&B's plan review Web page.

Email questions about submitting plan reviews (submitting reviews only, not technical code questions) to DspsSbPlanSchedule@wi.gov.

  You made an entry error or that S&B has incorrect information
If you realize you have made an entry error or see S&B data that is not correct, make a note of the problem, complete the scheduling, and then email the correction (with the transaction number) to DspsSbPlanSchedule@wi.gov.

  Should you be submitting to another agency?
State plan approvals are separate from local permits. Always check with local authorities, including county authorities, to determine what local regulations must be dealt with.

There are a number of local municipalities which do commercial buildings or plumbing plan review (and, for some projects, inspections) for their jurisdiction, including Milwaukee (go to the Milwaukee Department of City Development). For commercial building projects within municipalities to which S&B has delegated review authority contact that municipality (see list of Wisconsin municipalities Web sites). For plumbing projects within the agent municipalities, contact that municipality (see list of Wisconsin municipalities Web sites).

For licensing of hotels, motels, restaurants, pools, campgrounds and bed and breakfast establishments, contact the Wisconsin Environmental Sanitation Section of the Department of Health and Family Services, 608-266-2835.

Health Care Facilities and Community Based Residential Facilities plan reviews are done by the Department of Health Services, Bureau of Quality Assurance, 608-267-0352.

  If you have commercial buildings technical code questions, send an email to DspsSbBuildingTech@wi.gov, or fax the questions to 608-283-7402.

  Apple Safari Problems
Some customers report problems when trying to schedule using Apple's Safari Web browser. 

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